The latest Property Manager update includes six new rulesets for Ion Premier and five new rulesets for DSA, which appear by default when you configure a new property. These new rulesets encompass 63 configuration changes compared to the previous default settings, in order to help you instantly optimize performance with Akamai-recommended settings. The rulesets are organized in a clean structure, making it easier to understand and maintain your properties’ behaviors. These new default rules help you efficiently onboard new properties and leverage best practices for modern websites, apps, and APIs.  The rulesets include:  

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

If you want to configure your properties with the previous default settings, access the classic settings via the Add Rule button while configuring a property. These classic rulesets include:  

• Default (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) default configuration settings.
• Offload (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.
• Performance (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.

The changes will be available for Ion Standard and Ion Media Advanced in an upcoming release.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new rulesets for Ion Premier and five new rulesets for DSA, which appear by default when you configure a new property. These new rulesets encompass 63 configuration changes compared to the previous default settings, in order to help you instantly optimize performance with Akamai-recommended settings. The rulesets are organized in a clean structure, making it easier to understand and maintain your properties’ behaviors. These new default rules help you efficiently onboard new properties and leverage best practices for modern websites, apps, and APIs.  The rulesets include:  

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

If you want to configure your properties with the previous default settings, access the classic settings via the Add Rule button while configuring a property. These classic rulesets include:  

• Default (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) default configuration settings.
• Offload (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.
• Performance (classic). Includes the legacy (prior to 2020) offload configuration settings.

The changes will be available for Ion Standard and Ion Media Advanced in an upcoming release.

Script Management Updates

• A message now appears when a user activates a policy on a property that is not currently activated. This message explains that the property must be activated in Analysis and Action mode before the policy can be applied.
• You can now use the Open API to push policies to a property that is not active. This behavior is consistent with Akamai Control Center and the Open API.

Image and Video Manager July 2020 release:

Fast Activation

• Image and Video Manager now supports Fast Activation to decrease deployment times when activating or updating policies.

General Updates & Bug Fixes

• Improvements to the global Akamai network deliver increased network scalability and flexibility.
• We’ve also made updates to the Image and Video Manager back-end software to provide greater stability and scalability.
• Fixed an issue with the ChromaKey and BackgroundColor transformations.
• Fixed an issue when compositing images and an image download fails.

Image and Video Manager Dashboard

• The links to the Top Hit Videos and Largest Pristine Videos by Byte Size are now clickable and include the hostname.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new Ion rulesets that allow you to update existing property configurations to mirror new Akamai recommended settings (these rules will become default configurations in an upcoming release). To utilize these new recommendations, click Add Rule while configuring one of your existing properties. 

The new Ion rulesets include:

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

EdgeWorkers code bundles can now be directly edited in the EdgeWorkers Management application user interface!

Online code editing is ideal for small code changes and iterative bug fixes. Coding, configuration, and activation can all be done centrally within the EdgeWorkers UI.

Learn more about the code editor here: [https://learn.akamai.com/en-us/webhelp/edgeworkers/edgeworkers-user-guide/GUID–2860369E–6CE6–40E4-A487–40FD4BB58CE2.html]

The latest mPulse update includes the following:

• Fixed an issue in the new mPulse beta user interface that resulted in a “Repository Error 500” error screen for some customers.

New features:

• Akamai Terraform CLI configuration imports. Provides Bootstrap Terraform configuration files from existing GTM Domains and Properties.
• Concurrency optimizations. Provides API performance improvements for concurrent update transactions.
• Static Property Type. New GTM Property Type that enables static record types that behave as an Edge DNS Zone as part of a GTM Domain.
• Liveness workflow improvement. Enables you to run new Liveness tests without first saving to the Change List, thereby providing a simpler workflow.

EdgeWorkers code bundles can now be directly edited in the EdgeWorkers Management application user interface!

Online code editing is ideal for small code changes and iterative bug fixes. Coding, configuration, and activation can all be done centrally within the EdgeWorkers UI.

To learn more see Code bundle editor in the EdgeWorkers User Guide.

The latest update of the Origin Characteristics behavior includes:

• You can now create multiple instances of the Origin Characteristics behavior in a property configuration.
• Requests to a Google Cloud Storage service are no longer authenticated with V2 signatures but with more secure V4 signatures.
• You no longer need to provide the bucket name for your Google Cloud Storage service as part of the V4 signing process.
• You no longer need to provide the hostname for your Amazon Web Services as this value is already present in the Origin Server behavior.