Authorizer v2 Is Here: Self-Hosted Auth, Rebuilt From the Ground Up

We just shipped Authorizer v2 — a major rewrite of our open-source, self-hosted authentication and authorization server. If you've ever been frustrated by per-seat auth pricing, vendor lock-in, or ...

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Authorizer v2 Is Here: Self-Hosted Auth, Rebuilt From the Ground Up

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We just shipped Authorizer v2 — a major rewrite of our open-source, self-hosted authentication and authorization server. If you've ever been frustrated by per-seat auth pricing, vendor lock-in, or shipping your users' data to someone else's cloud — this release is for you. TL;DR: Single Go binary. 13+ database backends. CLI-driven config. OAuth 2.0/OIDC compliant. Deploy in 5 minutes. Free forever. GitHub | Docs | Website | Migration Video Why We Built v2 Authorizer v1 worked. Teams used it in production. But we kept hearing the same feedback: "Config stored in the database felt fragile." "I want to manage auth config the same way I manage everything else — through code." "It's hard to audit what changed and when." So we rethought the entire configuration model. v1: Configuration lived in the database, encrypted. You changed settings through the dashboard UI or a GraphQL mutation. Convenient, but opaque — you couldn't version-control your auth config, couldn't audit changes easily, and

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