Image and Video Manager July 2021 updates:

New features:

• Artistic transformation of Fit and Fill: Resizes an image to fit within a box of a specified size, then uses a blurred version of that same image to fill the transparent space at the edges.

• Image transformation to support circle crop: Trims the image to fit the geometry of a circle, which is commonly used for profile or avatar images.

IoT Edge Connect has been updated to help support the scale and stability requirements of users moving forward. Changes include:

• QoS 2 downgrade support. Message publication and subscription at QoS level 2 is no longer supported. Now, when a client attempts to subscribe to QoS 2, the service informs about supported QoS levels, and responds to the request with a maximum indicated QoS 1 level in the SUBACK response message. The service delivers messages at QoS 1 and QoS 0 as appropriate.

Other updates:

Several internal improvements to the overall stability and performance of the service.

New feature:

• Oracle Cloud Storage support. We have enabled Oracle Cloud Storage as a destination to send log data in the DataStream application and the DataStream 2 API. See the DataStream 2 User Guide and the DataStream 2 API for details on how to configure Oracle Cloud as a connector for your stream.

New features:

• Sumo Logic support. DataStream 2 now allows you to choose Sumo Logic as a destination to send your Akamai logs for detailed analysis. See the DataStream 2 User Guide for details on how to configure Sumo Logic as connectors for your stream.

Enhancement:

• Improved application layout. We have changed the stream view configuration, stream history and activation screens to improve the DataStream 2 application user experience. Changes include listing the stream’s data fields and version status.

The latest mPulse update includes the following:

• mPulse now chooses the smallest flavor of Boomerang to include in your data collection based on the features you’ve enabled within your app configuration. If needed, you can override this default selection. Only available when using Boomerang version 1.737 or later.

The latest mPulse update includes the following:

• Fixed a bug related to timer filters not working properly when Back End Time (TTFB) was applied.

New features:

• Custom HTTPS endpoint support. DataStream 2 now allows you to choose a custom HTTPS endpoint as a destination to send your Akamai logs and receive data. See the DataStream 2 User Guide for details on how to configure custom HTTPS endpoints as connectors for your stream.

• Geo data fields. DataStream 2 now features new data fields that provide geographical information about the requests. You can now collect and stream data on the city and country ISO code where the requests originate from in the log files.

Enhancement:

• Easier property selection. When configuring your stream in the DataStream 2 application, you can see property names next to product names and hostnames in separate columns. This helps you comfortably select properties that belong to the same product.

Image and Video Manager April/May 2021 updates:

New features:

• Animated GIF to mp4 conversion (Experimental): You are now able to convert animated GIFs to MP4 videos for additional byte savings.

• Image and Video Manager integration with Simplified Product onboarding (SPO): You can now use our SPO assistant to enable Image and Video Manager on a new property, which will help you to get going with IVM quickly and easily. to learn more about SPO, see their June 3, 2020 release note.

Dashboard updates:

On the IVM Video Dashboard, you are now able to view the top video URLs based on number of seconds delivered. 

New features:

• Additional HTTP methods for liveness tests. Additional methods for HTTP(S) liveness tests including DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH, POST, PUT, and TRACE.
• Domain history API. Developer API to GET a domain’s history of changes.
• Backup CNAMEs for IP version selector properties. IP version selector properties can contain matching backup CNAMEs.
• TTL for China CDN global redirection capabilities defaults to 3600s. The China CDN’s global redirection capability defaults to 3600s to minimize lookup transactions.
• Property limit display. The application UI conveniently displays a domain’s current property limit.
• Property TTL defaults handling. The application UI better manages TTL values.
• Liveness test default timeout is 10s. Default liveness test default timeout is 10s.
• Standard info icons. Standardize information icons throughout the application user interface.
• Reporting improvements.
  • GTM - Property Report: 90 days of history, reduced latency for the traffic data, liveness graphs have increased granularity with a percent availability for the reporting period and visual alignment for graphs vertically.
  • GTM - Error Report: Predefined dates updated to reflect API availability.
• Prometheus.io exporter. Exporter library to publish metrics to Prometheus.io.
• Grafana plug-in. Plug-in to enable a data source for Grafana.

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.