The latest update for API Gateway includes the following features and enhancements:

New features:

• You may now access API Dashboard in Luna Control Center to view various charts with data about your APIs. The data appears with only a five-minute delay which lets you discover and troubleshoot issues proactively. (BETA ONLY)

Enhancements:

• In the API Endpoint Definition API, you may now import and re-import API definition files by making an application/json request to ease file upload.
• You may now add descriptions to OAuth scopes that you create in API Definitions.
• You may now define and validate any JWT public and private claims. You are no longer limited to using only reserved claims in a token.
• The dialog box that appears when switching from RESTful to GraphQL caching now includes clearer messaging to ease workflow.

The latest update for API Gateway includes the following features and bug fixes. Please note that much of the work in this release are deliverables for API Gateway 1.1 beta program.

New features:

• You can now specify in API Definitions whether your API uses GraphQL to deliver structured content to clients. If so, you can configure specific caching settings for your GraphQL API. (BETA)
• You can customize selected error messages that your APIs return to clients. This includes the error message response body, HTTP status code, and headers. (BETA)

Fixed bugs:

• Key collection names must be at least 1 character in length.
• Responses for “not-null” and “type-mismatch” errors returned in the API Endpoint Definition and Key and Quota Management APIs are more descriptive and informative.
• Responses in the API Endpoint Definition and Key and Quota Management APIs provide information about missing values.

The latest update for API Gateway includes the following features and bug fixes:

New features:

• You can customize cache keys by specifying whether to use a query string in an incoming request to differentiate objects in a cache.

Fixed bugs:

• API registration form with numerous resources renders more quickly.
• The Activate button in the Activate API window is always available.
• Quota reports show the correct graph for non-existing data.
• The manual quota reset is reflected correctly in quota reports.
• When importing an API definition file, all resources can be saved after you modify one of the imported resources.
• Reimporting Swagger files no longer produces internal server errors.
• Reimporting YAML files no longer produces internal server errors.
• The daily quota reset is displayed properly in quota reports.
• More accurate error messages are returned for quota headers-related errors.
• The error message for incorrect origin hostname is more transparent.
• API error messages are consistent in capitalization.
• The new text in the key import modal now clearly states that the import operation appends keys to a collection.
• The CSV format example in the key import modal now includes the description field.

The latest update to API Gateway introduces a new functionality that lets you hide inactive API configurations from the registered APIs list as well as individual API configuration versions from the version history panel. This contributes to a more transparent and clutter-free interface.

The latest updates for API Gateway include:

• You are no longer redirected to the first key collection after refreshing or making changes on the Key and Quota Management page.

• A blank base path is now treated as equivalent to a base path of /* during API configuration activation.

• The Quota usage by time report is now available under Reporting in Luna Control Center.

• The OpenAPI for quota reports is now a part of the Key and Quota API.

• Each contract has a default API keys limit (1000 keys) that you can change by contacting your account representative.

• You can upload API definition files in a Swagger 3.0 format.

• You can overwrite hostnames and base paths during the import operation.

• The Quota used last updated field in Key and Quota Management includes a time zone.

• The UI in Key and Quota Management clearly displays which keys are selected across all collections.

Edge Redirector Cloudlet: Incorrect data in the Unused Rules report

When using Edge Redirector’s Unused Rules report, select the date range using either the custom date selection or the predefined date filters. Mixing custom and predefined date ranges generates reports with incorrect dates.  

The latest updates for API Gateway include:

• CreatedBy and UpdatedBy fields returned in OpenAPI contain user-friendly data.

• Activation and deactivation operations in OpenAPI return data in the response body.

• Key and Quota Management contains information about the latest update of keys’ remaining quota.

• You are no longer redirected to the first collection after generating keys.

• The tag limit per API key is 10.

• The default clock skew value for JWT claims validation is five seconds.

• The import interface now clearly reflects reimporting for existing API configurations.

• You can control whether resources inherit API privacy, JWT validation, and caching settings from the API level.

The LA version of API Gateway is available and includes the following updates:

• If you define an API using the Swagger import method, the Swagger version of the imported API definition file appears on the API configuration page.

• You can resize columns in tables in both Key and Quota Management and API Definitions.

• In Key and Quota Management, you can export API keys to a CSV, XML, or JSON file.

• When you create key collections, you associate them with an access control group and a contract.

• Save controls are always available at the bottom of a page when scrolling.

• API key location and API caching fields in API Definitions now include additional contextual help.

Cloudlets Policy Manager: API user display change

When an API user updates a policy, the Cloudlets Policy Manager now displays the username in the Last Editor field of the Policy Details screen. Previously, the API user’s ID would display instead.

Request Control policies: IP/CIDR match entries

In Cloudlets Policy Manager, when you create a Request Control rule with an IP/CIDR match, you can now enter approximately 30,000 IPv4 addresses or CIDR blocks.

The latest updates to Akamai API Gateway include:

• Importing an API definition file via URL doesn’t prompt for a root file field anymore.

• The Activate button on the API registration page is grayed out if another version activation is pending.

• The labels in the Compare Versions window reflect the field names in the UI.

• You can hide the left-hand side column with key collections in Key and Quota Management to improve the visibility of keys data in the table.

• Users with read-only permissions cannot create, activate, or clone endpoints.

• You can see the remaining quota for each individual key in Key and Quota Management.

• The API definition re-import mechanism detects if the hostnames being imported differ from the existing hostnames. If yes, you receive a warning that original hostnames will not be replaced.

• During API activation, a version with conflicting hostnames is not deactivated when not all hostnames are in conflict.