A retirement with an operational consequence
Okta’s October 28 Identity Engine preview release notes identify a breaking change for organizations using the early-access Connect with Okta feature. Version 2026.44.0 retires the legacy Manage Connections tab and its associated cross-app connection APIs. Okta says configurations created through that feature stop functioning in the release and directs administrators to current AI agent-to-app resource connections.
Release timing remains tenant-specific
At the time of review, Okta’s release overview listed 2026.44.0 as deployed to preview on October 28 and scheduled for production beginning November 2. The company says deployments progress across cells over a week and that upcoming dates can change. The schedule therefore does not establish that every production organization has received the change.
More than a renamed control
The material point is the explicit loss of function for legacy configurations. An integration that still appears in an internal inventory may no longer provide the intended access path after its tenant receives the release. The migration responsibility sits with the people maintaining the connection, rather than with end users attempting an ordinary sign-in.
A narrow scope amid broader changes
The same preview release expands Cross App Access capabilities, including downstream resource connections for MCP servers. That expansion should not obscure the separate retirement notice. Okta’s warning concerns the older early-access configuration mechanism; it does not say that Cross App Access as a whole is being withdrawn or that all customer integrations are broken.
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