Principal Developer @ Umbraco HQ, blogger, speaker, overly curious
In Umbraco 14, backoffice authentication transitioned from cookie-based to bearer token authentication, impacting how users authenticate outside the backoffice. The legacy UMB_UCONTEXT cookie now only facilitates OpenID Connect sign-ins and may not be permanent. Kenn Jacobsen proposes a new cookie-based authentication mechanism using OpenIddict events to manage user sessions effectively.