req.session.regenerate is not a function since upgrade to 0.6.0

Author: nickyblissAvivaCreated May 27, 2022Updated Jun 9, 2025

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We have been using passport for some time within our application and have had no issues but once upgraded from 0.5.2 to 0.6.0 we are suddenly seeing an error when submitting authentication.

javascript

C:\stash\NTTSites\sites\fw-standards\node_modules\passport\lib\sessionmanager.js:28
  req.session.regenerate(function(err) {
              ^

TypeError: req.session.regenerate is not a function
    at SessionManager.logIn (C:\stash\NTTSites\sites\fw-standards\node_modules\passport\lib\sessionmanager.js:28:15)
    at IncomingMessage.req.login.req.logIn (C:\stash\NTTSites\sites\fw-standards\node_modules\passport\lib\http\request.js:39:26)
    at Strategy.strategy.success (C:\stash\NTTSites\sites\fw-standards\node_modules\passport\lib\middleware\authenticate.js:256:13)
    at verified (C:\stash\NTTSites\sites\fw-standards\node_modules\passport-local\lib\strategy.js:83:10)
    at Strategy.runAuth [as _verify] (C:\stash\NTTSites\sites\fw-standards\\\utils\passport-authentication.js:60:10)

Our passport-authentication.js just initialises passport within expressJS and sets some local strategies.

I have rolled back to 0.5.3 and our application works fine again.

Environment

Operating System: Windows 10
Node version: 16.13.2
passport version: 0.6.0

Source: jaredhanson/passport

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