# Keeper Gateway 1.7.6

### Overview

Keeper Gateway 1.7.6 provides automatic [gateway scaling](https://docs.keeper.io/keeperpam/privileged-access-manager/getting-started/gateways/scaling-and-high-availability) and delivers major improvements in stability and performance for Keeper Connections and Keeper JIT, along with additional feature enhancements and bug fixes.

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Gateway Scaling is only supported on Gateway version 1.7.6 or higher. Read more about Gateway scaling [here](/keeperpam/privileged-access-manager/getting-started/gateways/scaling-and-high-availability.md).
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### Improvements

* **PG-190:** Improved stability when running multiple concurrent PAM connections
* **DR-1135:** Handle backend throttling when retrieving secrets
* **PG-134:** Added support to elevate windows accounts to local windows groups on AD joined servers
* **DR-1140:** Improved Discovery Port scanning to not return dead IPs
* **DR-1139:** Improved Keeper gateway compatibility with Keeper Endpoint Agent
* **DR-1138:** Changed private key passphrase custom field name to "Private Key Passphrase"
* **DR-1141:** Added support to optionally rotate SSH Key passphrase
* **DR-1126:** Added support for OU field to Domain Controller environments on the PAM Configuration
* **PG-173:** All Ephemeral accounts created by Keeper will now have the prefix `keeper_`
* **DR-1148:** KDRNM - Revert Passphrase label
* **PG-177:** Resolved issue issue where Windows user JIT elevation fails due to case-sensitive group name validation

### Bug Fixes

* **PG-155:** Resolved issue where Windows JIT elevation fails when target user already belongs to configured Role
* **PG-168:** Resolved issue where Tunnels fails if "allow user to select host" is selected
* **PR-71:** Fixed issue where Router does not persist AI Metadata sent by gateway in some cases
* **PG-189:** Resolved issue where RBI sessions terminates ungracefully due to guacd "User is not responding" error.
* **PG-118:** Resolved issues where gateway went offline after repeated interactions with connection sessions

### Update Instructions

Please visit the Keeper Gateway documentation for your specific platform:

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[Gateways](/keeperpam/privileged-access-manager/getting-started/gateways.md)
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