Announcing Access Server 3.0: A Modernized Admin Web UI and Enhanced Flexibility

We’re excited to announce the release of Access Server version 3.0 — built for what’s next. This is a major platform upgrade that delivers new features, expands API support, and modernizes both the Admin Web UI and the underlying architecture, bringing powerful enhancements in performance, flexibility, and system integration while unlocking a more scalable foundation for ongoing innovation.

New features in Access Server 3.0

• With the foundation modernized, version 3.0 introduces a series of customer-requested enhancements, including:
• ✅ SSO login via SAML for the Admin Web UI — giving IT teams greater flexibility and security.
• ✅ MFA management — reset, enable, disable, and enroll MFA settings for all users directly from the UI.
• ✅ Advanced configuration editing — adjust key settings without relying on the CLI.
• ✅ Configuration reports — generate reports for faster support analysis.
• ✅ Improved search and navigation — better organization of related settings, enhanced user/group search, and clearer visibility into system status.
• ✅ Subscription monitoring — quickly view subscription IDs and track shared connections across nodes.
• Whether you're managing secure remote access for a small team or an enterprise environment, this release is designed to make your job easier than ever — now and in the future.

These improvements create a more intuitive and powerful administrative experience, reducing manual overhead and improving day-to-day usability.

Admin Web UI improvements

The challenge: legacy limitations

With how the front end and back end communicated in the previous architecture, every configuration change in the Admin Web UI required rebuilding an entire HTML page. 

This stateless approach meant the system would “forget” the context of a user’s actions once a page was generated. While functional, it created several challenges: 

• ● Reduced responsiveness: Entire pages had to be built for every interaction, leading to a less fluid user experience. 
• ● Slower feature delivery: Adding new functions required simultaneous updates across the frontend, middleware, and backend. 
• ● Limited continuity: Statelessness made it difficult to develop features that required maintaining context across interactions. 

As a result, many administrators had to rely on the CLI or custom hacks to achieve missing functionality in the Admin Web UI.

The solution: a modernized architecture

Access Server version 3.0 directly addresses these limitations with a modern React-based front end and a REST API-driven backend architecture.

Here’s how this overhaul improves the experience:

• ✅ Faster, smoother performance: Page templates are loaded once and dynamically updated with data via REST API calls with every interaction — no more full-page reloads.
• ✅ Agile development: The frontend and backend can now evolve independently, enabling faster feature delivery and easier maintenance.
• ✅ Broader functionality: Administrative features that previously required CLI commands are now accessible directly within the Admin Web UI.

The completely redesigned Admin Web UI offers a modern, intuitive experience that streamlines administrative tasks and unlocks more efficient workflows.

This separation between frontend and backend allows for more efficient, decoupled development cycles, ensuring Access Server can adapt quickly to evolving enterprise needs.

API Support

Access Server 3.0 also strengthens integration flexibility with expanded REST API support. Integration hurdles of the past — where the legacy XML-RPC API complicated external integrations and often required manual workarounds or custom scripts — are now eliminated. Developers can now more easily build and maintain external integrations, while powering the new Admin Web UI and automated workflows. 

Expanded REST API coverage, complete with an integrated testing tool and documentation, makes it easier than ever to simplify integrations, reduce overhead, and improve reliability. 

With REST now at the core, Access Server eliminates previous limitations, better supports evolving enterprise requirements, and enables faster, more agile, non-disruptive updates.

Key benefits at a glance

• 🚀 Modern React-based Admin Web UI for faster, smoother interactions.
• 🔐 SSO support via SAML for the Admin Web UI for greater security flexibility.
• ⚡ Expanded REST API endpoints to power integrations and workflows.
• 🛠️ CLI-only features now in the UI (advanced config editing and configuration reports).
• 📊 Better visibility into subscription usage, shared connections, and system status. 
• 🔄 Future-ready architecture enabling continuous, agile innovation.

Why it matters

For IT administrators, Access Server 3.0 is more than just an upgrade — it’s a transformation. By modernizing the Admin Web UI and the underlying architecture, this release delivers:

• ✅ Streamlined workflows for faster, simpler administration.
• ✅ Broader functionality that reduces reliance on CLI or manual workarounds.
• ✅ Improved scalability through a decoupled, modern architecture designed for continuous innovation.

Whether managing a single server or a multi-node cluster, Access Server 3.0 provides the performance, flexibility, and usability needed to scale efficiently.

Access Server 3.0 is available now. Dig into the nitty gritty in the Access Server release notes. And check out our new Admin Web UI User Manual — we’re confident you’ll love it.