Basic Auth

Kong Gateway 3.8.x

• Fixed an issue where the realm field wasn’t recognized for older Kong Gateway versions (earlier than 3.6.x). #13042

Kong Gateway 3.6.x

• Added missing WWW-Authenticate headers to 401 responses. #11795

Kong Gateway 3.0.x

• The deprecated X-Credential-Username header has been removed.
• The priority of this plugin changed from 1001 to 1100.

Kong Gateway 2.7.x

• Starting with Kong Gateway 2.7.0.0, if keyring encryption is enabled and you are using basic authentication, the basicauth_credentials.password field will be encrypted.