# Backend API 17.7.3

### New Features

* IL5 / GovCloud compatibility and compliance hardening
* Enhanced passkey policy controls for enterprises
* Improved IL5 operational diagnostics

### Improvements

**KA-8037:** Improved IL5/GovCloud compatibility by ensuring AWS file operations use approved FIPS endpoints where required. This strengthens compliance behavior without changing user workflows.

**KA-7395:** Passkeys can now be used for authentication with physical devices (e.g., FIDO2 security keys) when allowed by enterprise role enforcement policy.

### Bugs

**KA-8036:** Fixed a server error that could occur when registering a previously unseen client version.\
Improves stability for version reporting/registration flows.

**KA-8338:** Fixed an issue where a sync could fail with an invalid continuation token error.\
Improves reliability for large or paginated sync operations.


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