SailPoint IdentityIQ® 9.0 is here — And it's built for what's next

Your identity program doesn't stand still, and neither should your platform. As enterprise environments grow more complex, the foundation underneath your identity security needs to keep pace with new app servers, stricter compliance demands, and higher expectations from the people who use it every day.

SailPoint IdentityIQ 9.0 answers that call. This release delivers a major architectural modernization designed to strengthen scalability, security, and compliance across your enterprise. It upgrades the foundational framework, modernizes custom application configurations, simplifies access certifications, and sharpens time-based access controls. In short, it's a platform built for what comes next.

Here's what's new in IdentityIQ 9.0.

Stronger governance and least privilege controls

Beyond the architectural updates, IdentityIQ 9.0 gives you new ways to keep access accurate and appropriately scoped.

• Metadata campaign: Shifts the responsibility of maintaining metadata from central administrators to the business ownerswho have the correct context by defining an automated process to review and update the ownership and the description of entitlements and roles helping you meet your compliance standards, improving data quality and saving time.
• Granular time-based access: More precise time-bound access provisioning down to the hour and minute on privileged roles and entitlements keeps applications aligned with least privilege access.

A modernized enterprise architecture with Jakarta EE 10

IdentityIQ 9.0 moves your core framework forward, positioning your deployment on a secure, supported foundation for years to come.

• Framework transition: IdentityIQ 9.0 fully migrates the core application framework from Java EE 8 to Jakarta EE 10.
• Next-gen app server support: The platform now provides native compatibility with modern, secure enterprise application servers, including Apache Tomcat 10.1 and 11, JBoss EAP 8, and IBM WebSphere Liberty 25 and 26.
• Regulatory-ready SMS verification: IdentityIQ 9.0 adds support for the Twilio Verify API, giving your organization holistic coverage for country-specific SMS regulations and removing the dependency on each country's newly introduced rules around text messages.

A refreshed experience and streamlined governance

Everyday work gets faster and easier for administrators and business users alike.

• Intuitive UI modernization: A modernized, streamlined, and improved web interface for integrating applications for seamless onboarding.
• Simplified certifications: Transforming compliance with significant certification improvements including search with contains logic, customizable items per page values and new certification scheduling frequency.
• Enhanced certification scheduler: Greater granularity gives your team the flexibility to meet business user needs.
• Retained user preferences: Your preferences now stay put in the UI, with improved search and filtering that lets you search by, and search on, columns.

Configuration modernization and XML standardization

Custom configurations are easier to maintain and carry forward with this release.

• Standardized XML source definitions: Custom application UIs and connector registry templates transition from xhtml pages to structured XML source configuration.
• Maintainable logic: Simplified custom forms, business logic, and UI scripts improve upgrade portability and reduce technical debt.

Your program, ready for what's next

IdentityIQ 9.0 gives your team a modern, maintainable, compliance-ready foundation, without asking you to trade away the control your enterprise depends on. From the Jakarta EE 10 migration to sharper time-based access controls, every update in this release points toward the same goal: an identity platform that scales with your ambitions instead of holding them back.

You don't have to navigate this upgrade alone. Your SailPoint Customer Success team is ready to walk through what IdentityIQ 9.0 means for your identity program and how to prepare for the upgrade on your timeline. There are resources available to make the process simpler, with a pre-upgrade data gathering plug-in and an upgrade pre-check utility to scan customizations and flag customizations to prep your environment for the upgrade.

The foundation has been rebuilt. Now it's your turn to build on it. Contact your SailPoint Customer Success team today to start planning your move to IdentityIQ 9.0.

Learn more about IdentityIQ 9.0