Cross-Keycloak Token Exchange Support in Keycloak 24.0.5 vs 26.2 #44331

muhammadqasim3 · 2025-11-19T12:52:30Z

muhammadqasim3
Nov 19, 2025

Hi all,

I’m performing token exchange between two separate Keycloak servers:

The flow currently works, but there is some uncertainty regarding official support. It appears that:

This created uncertainty.

My questions:

Is cross-Keycloak token exchange officially supported in v24.0.5?
Has this behavior changed in v26.2+?
If cross-Keycloak token exchange is not supported, what is the recommended approach for exchanging tokens issued by another Keycloak instance?

Any clarification or official references would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!