UK Access Management Federation
for Education and Research
The UK federation is operated by Jisc and provides a single solution to accessing online resources and services for education and research. Here is some information on how it works and its benefits.
Eligible organisations are invited to join the current membership.
Latest news
UK federation update December 2025
Posted on Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Service desk closure for Christmas break 2025-2026
As with most areas of Jisc, the UK federation service desk will be taking an extended break over Christmas and New Year. The helpdesk will be unavailable from 12:00 on Wednesday 24 December 2025, and will reopen at 09:00 on Monday 5 January 2026. If you submit a request to service@ukfederation.org.uk during this period, your email will be logged, but we won't be able to respond until we return.
Please note that any metadata changes need to be submitted by 18 December to be considered for publication; otherwise, they will be addressed from 5 January 2026 onwards.
UK federation metadata will be automatically re-published over the holiday period. While we won't make changes to UK federation-registered entities, there may be updates due to entities imported via eduGAIN.
Shibboleth Identity Provider Security Advisory with new minor version release
Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2025
The UK federation recommends adhering to best practices by routinely managing patches for your IdP environment. This includes subscribing to future security notifications:Shibboleth Announce.
Following the recent security advisory from the Shibboleth Consortium regarding the IdP, you should update your Identity Provider software to version 5.1.6 (or later) at your earliest convenience. Although the affected code path is likely not in use by the UK federation userbase, updating will help mitigate any potential exploits.
As ever, please ensure your software versions are patched promptly. If you have any questions or queries then please do contact the UK federation service desk
Audience
While this advisory is directed only at operators of the Shibboleth IdP rather than other entities within the UK federation, it is good practice to be subscribed to the appropriate mailing lists for any software you operate in order to stay abreast of the need for updates.
FAM 25 Presentations
Posted on Tuesday, 8 July 2025
We hope you enjoy the slide presentations and some recordings from the FAM 25 event held in Manchester on July 2nd 2025.
They include: