New Features

• CSV import/export feature is supported for Shared Policies. Initially, it was supported only for the Legacy Policies.  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the GUI to ensure a single property deletion shows a pending status.

New Features - CSV import/export feature is supported for Shared Policies. Initially, it was supported only for the Legacy Policies.  

Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue in the GUI to ensure a single property deletion shows a pending status.

Image and Video Manager April/May 2021 updates:

Shared Policy Sets 

You can now reuse policies sets and share them across multiple properties belonging to the same contract. Any changes to the shared policy set are reflected globally across all associated properties. To learn more, see Shared Policy Sets.

New Policy Manager UI—Beta 

We have launched a revamped beta version of the Policy Manager UI that introduces following improvements:

• A change in workflow to allow creation of policies via the new UI
• Greater accessibility of policy sets and policy actions
• Clearer reflection of the concept of policies being contained within policy sets
• Additional information about policies and policy sets and policies on the landing page
• Changes to default settings, including: default Perceptual Quality set to Medium High, default resolution set to 1080px for Apple devices, and modernized default breakpoints
• A cleaner, simpler, more organized look

You can access the New UI using the ‘Switch to beta’ button on the Policy Manager page.

Troubleshooting information 

We have added guidance for troubleshooting issues you may encounter when working with Image and Video Manager. To learn more, see Troubleshooting.

Support HEIC/HEIF image format—Experimental

We have added experimental support for the HEIC/HEIF image format for derivative image creation.

We’ve made the following updates and improvements to the Adaptive Acceleration user interface:

• The title of the Adaptive Acceleration landing page is now “Adaptive Acceleration” instead of “Automatic Push and Preconnect Policy”.
• The buttons for Warnings and Property Details are now links.
• The property name is now visible on the Adaptive Acceleration page.
• We moved the “Policy Last Updated” and “Data Source” fields underneath the property name.
• The description on the Adaptive Acceleration UI page has also been updated.

We have made several enhancements and bug fixes to the administrative API and command-line interface for EdgeKV.

Updates to the EdgeKV APIs:

• We have updated the JSON input and output format for the initialize and namespace endpoints to comply with REST API best practices.
• When listing namespaces you can now optionally display namespace details, such as geoLocation and retentionInSeconds.
• Namespace commands now show a geoLocation attribute that currently defaults to the US. 
• When listing tokens you can optionally return a list of expired tokens. Expired tokens cannot be used but do count towards your account token limit as documented here.

Updates to the EdgeKV CLI package:

(Note that you need to install the latest EdgeKV CLI package to access these enhancements and bug fixes.)

• The CLI now accepts the renamed JSON returned by the EdgeKV API. This update enables all CLI commands to display properly.
• Specifying a retention period is now mandatory when creating a namespace. This previously defaulted to six months, but is now configurable.
• When listing namespaces you can optionally retrieve namespace details such as geoLocation and retentionInSeconds. 
• Namespace commands now show a geoLocation attribute that currently defaults to the US. 
• When listing tokens you can optionally return a list of expired tokens. Expired tokens cannot be used but do count towards your account token limit as documented here.
• The CLI can now display empty string or “null” values stored in EdgeKV. 

New Feature: Cloud Access Manager support for Ion

Cloud Access Manager is an interface that enables cloud origin authentication for AWS and GCP, and allows you to securely store and manage your cloud origin credentials in the form of access keys. Cloud Access Manager also allows you to reference access keys in multiple properties within your account.

Cloud Access Manager consists of two parts:

• The Cloud Access Manager application used to securely store cloud origin credentials
• An Origin Characteristics change that introduces a “secure storage” option that lets you select an already defined cloud origin credential

See the Cloud Access Manager User Guide to learn more. 

New Feature: Cloud Access Manager support for Dynamic Site Accelerator

Cloud Access Manager is an interface that enables cloud origin authentication for AWS and GCP, and allows you to securely store and manage your cloud origin credentials in the form of access keys. Cloud Access Manager also allows you to reference access keys in multiple properties within your account.

Cloud Access Manager consists of two parts:

• The Cloud Access Manager application used to securely store cloud origin credentials
• An Origin Characteristics change that introduces a “secure storage” option that lets you select an already defined cloud origin credential

See the Cloud Access Manager User Guide to learn more. 

Enhancements

• Added asynchronous option for Load Balancer policies activation.
• Multiple cost analysis tool improvements:
  • Fixed invalid cURL when generating a report.
  • Enhanced the error messages when cannot retrieve any hostname to estimate match rule cost.
  • Fixed an error where only a part of rules’ results is shown in the generated report.

  Bug Fixes

API v2:

• Fixed Legacy Policy deletion issue. The fix prevents a Legacy Policy to be deleted while it is being activated. 

API v3:

• Fixed GET policies so that the cloudletType parameter is no longer ignored.
• Fixed group-level access for Cloudlets policies. Previously, all policies were shown to all Groups Associations, yet a user could not do any actions against these policies.

DataStream 2 Stream Status Update

We are improving your DataStream experience by introducing consistent and clear stream status names in the application and DataStream 2 API. New status names include:

• Activating. When a stream is activating, your stream version is being pushed to the production network and should go live in about 90 minutes after saving the configuration. Previously Publishing.

• Deactivating. Your stream is being pulled from the production network and it will stop streaming log data shortly. Previously Disabling.

• Active. Your stream version is active on the production network. Active streams are represented as a green bubble on the streams list, and you can deactivate an active stream anytime from the menu.

• Deactivated. Your stream version is saved, but not active on the production network. Deactivated streams are represented as a gray bubble on the streams list, and you can activate a deactivated stream anytime from the menu.

Changes in the application interface include:

• When creating new or editing inactive streams, you can check the Activate stream upon saving box to push the version to the production network after saving the configuration.

• The Publish button has been replaced with the Save stream button that allows you to save the stream version to activate later if you don’t check the the Activate stream upon saving box.

See Version management in the DataStream 2 User Guide for details.

New features:

• Google Cloud Storage support. DataStream 2 now allows you to choose Google Cloud Storage as a destination to send your Akamai logs and receive data. See the DataStream 2 User Guide for details on how to configure Google Cloud Storage for your stream.

• JSON log format support. To ensure the smooth migration of customers from DataStream 1 to DataStream 2, the application now supports JSON log format in addition to the CSV format. DataStream 2 users have the ability to choose and configure JSON as the log format, and visualize the sample JSON logs in the application. The JSON log format works for all supported DataStream 2 destinations.

• Increased number of properties per stream. We are increasing the number of properties that you can associate with one stream from 3 to 100 properties. See the DataStream 2 User Guide for steps and details.

Other updates:

• Structured format logs. The existing CSV log format has been renamed Structured with no changes to this functionality except for the display name in the application.