Release Notes: Cloud Interconnects for Google Cloud (GCP) - Limited Availability

New features:

• Updated behavior that enables you to maximize egress discounts for Google Cloud origins. Available for Ion Standard, Ion Premier, and DSA.

• Updated Cloud Interconnects Traffic Report that helps you to confirm the value of using Cloud Interconnects for Google Cloud.

• Updated Origin IP ACL.  Please refer to latest documentation or the Firewall Rules app in Akamai Control Centre (ACC) for the updated list.

Known Issue: Cloud Interconnects Traffic Report does not properly reflect PNI traffic in the US. We are working to quickly resolve this issue.

The latest release for Case Management includes:

• The Carrier Case severity updated. The Carrier team can now be a part of ongoing changes and improvements made to the technical case record type. 
• Bug fixes.

The latest release for the Test Center includes:

• Possibility to test Security Configurations using new conditions for API ID, Alert ID, Deny ID, and Policy name.

• Ability to view skipped test cases in a test run.

• Improvements the readability of the Runs and Results Details page:

  • A summary of test results showing numbers of functional test cases (passed, failed, not run because of an error, not included), comparative test cases, and executed objects they are associated to (test suites, config versions, requirements, test definitions).
  • Option to filter the results based on the result status.
  • Clear distinction between system failures and test case failure.

• Test runs to use the latest version of Chrome.

• Usability enhancements and bug fixes.

Maximum number of failed login attempts changed

In service of maintaining our security and compliance requirements, the maximum number of failed login attempts was lowered from 5 to 3. After 3 failed attempts with invalid credentials, your account will be locked for 30 minutes.

The latest release for the Support homepage includes:

• Removal of the Ask a Question option. From now on, use the main Control Center search at the top of the page to search Documentation and Knowledge base.

Release Notes:  Property Manager

Updated Features:

• Hostnames table. Over the next few weeks we will be rolling out a new Property Manager hostnames table that will let you more quickly and easily see the status of the hostnames, and their related SSL/TLS certificates, on your property. You can take a guided tour of the enhancements once the updated table is enabled for your account. Property Manager API (PAPI) is not affected by this update.  
• Origin Characteristics behavior.
  • The “AWS Secret Access Key” field is no longer limited to 40 characters in length.
  • Added Optional suffix to Hostname.
• Construct Response behavior. Added an option to the Construct Response behavior to exclude AKAMAI_PURGE and AKAMAI_TRANSLATE requests by wrapping the behavior xml in a request type. 
• Construct Response behavior. Added the 417 (Expectation Failed) response code option.

Bug Fixes:

• Origin behavior. When using NetStorage origin with Media products (Download Delivery, Adaptive Media Delivery, Object Delivery), the max-reconnects is now set to 1, ensuring that failover will trigger before timeout.
• Set-Variable behavior.
  • Removed variable support from start and end of Substring variable extract as this functionality did not work correctly.
  • Reverting validations that prevented the use of negative substring indices.
• Site Failover behavior. Variables now work correctly with the Modified Path option.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes, performance and uptime improvements.

The latest release for Download Center includes:

• Ability to check the description and duration of the file along with its name.
• Bug fixes.

The latest release for the Diagnostic tools includes:

• Removal of the Flash Entry Point Debug Player link from Diagnostic tools.
• Bug fixes.

The latest release for the Test Center includes:

• The Create test cases based on config version feature. Users can now create test cases much easier and faster. By clicking behaviors in the property’s rule tree, Test Center autogenerates conditions.
• Optimization of test runs executions. Enhanced parallel execution of jobs and implemented bug fixes improve the overall test run time.
• Usability enhancements and bug fixes.

Release Notes: DataStream 2

New features:

• Upload failure alerts. DataStream 2 now allows you to configure alerts and get notifications when log files fail to upload to your destinations. This feature is available to you via the Akamai Alerts application. See Setting up alerts for details.
• Dynamic time prefixing. Now you can sort log files streamed to your selected destinations by date and time. Configure folder paths and filename prefixes with dynamic time variables and combine them with static values. See Dynamic time variables for details.
• New data fields. DataStream 2 supports logging new data set fields, including SSL version, SSL overhead time, Object size, Uncompressed size, Max age, Overhead bytes, and DNS lookup time. See the Data set parameters list.

Enhancement: 

DataStream 2 UI now features an improved confirmation screen, helping you configure the DataStream behavior in the Property Manager application before starting to stream logs.