New features:

• Health status. The GTM System Status page provides a convenient and efficient method to learn about GTM operational issues. Its purpose is to complement Service Incident Notifications available on Akamai Community.
• Service Binding record types. New HTTPS and SVCB DNS resource record types provide clients with key information about connections to network services from multiple, alternative locations or endpoints. These new record types also enable alias capability at the domain apex, a long-standing challenge for the Internet.
• Menu improvements. The Akamai Control Center menu explicitly supports Global Traffic Management functions.

Release Notes:  Ion

New Feature:

s-maxage Support. The s-maxage directive is now available to all Ion customers as part of the Caching behavior in Property Manager. S-maxage is a cache-control directive defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) that makes it easier to configure caching across shared caches in a single setting.  For organizations that use multiple CDNs, this new capability significantly simplifies cache management. 

This is an opt in feature that enables you to define how long content should be cached starting from the time content is requested by configuring Time To Live (TTL) once across Akamai and any other CDNs and intermediary caches. 

The Caching behavior has a new option called Enhanced RFC support, which allows you to honor the s-maxage directive, and other RFC-supported directives, in Cache-Control response headers from the origin.

Release Notes:  Dynamic Site Accelerator

New Features:

s-maxage Support. The s-maxage directive is now available to all DSA customers as part of the Caching behavior in Property Manager. S-maxage is a cache-control directive defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) that makes it easier to configure caching across shared caches in a single setting.  For organizations that use multiple CDNs, this new capability significantly simplifies cache management. 

This is an opt in feature that enables you to define how long content should be cached starting from the time content is requested by configuring Time To Live (TTL) once across Akamai and any other CDNs and intermediary caches. 

The Caching behavior has a new option called Enhanced RFC support, which allows you to honor the s-maxage directive, and other RFC-supported directives, in Cache-Control response headers from the origin.

New features

• Shared Policy for Edge Redirector. With this new type of policy the configuration and activation process is now much simpler, which is particularly convenient in case the same policy is used in multiple properties.
• Cloudlets API v3 with Shared Policy support. This API is significantly faster than v2 and is designed to better handle asynchronous communication.

Enhancements

• Improved UI responsiveness when activating API Prioritization, Application Load Balancer, Phased Release, Request Control or Visitor Prioritization cloudlets policies.
• Added an optional “async” query parameter to cloudlets policy activation API v2. Use this flag when activating API Prioritization, Application Load Balancer, Phased Release, Request Control or Visitor Prioritization policy to significantly reduce API response time and let the activation continue in the background. Highly recommended for activations on multiple properties.

Enhancements

• Added ability to use GTM and Akamai domains as ALB origins.
• Improved logging for the corner case when ALB triggers all down due to DNS resolution issues.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue causing invalid rule match when matching on user location data.
• Fixed an issue causing wildcards not being applied correctly in match rules.
• Fixed an issue with rule start/end setting causing invalid time zone to be set.
• Fixed an issue with rule name length validation inconsistency between UI, CSV import and API.
• Fixed an interoperability issue causing ALB behavior to be overridden by other forward controlling cloudlets.
• Fixed an interoperability issue causing ALB failover to be executed even though ALB was overridden by other forward controlling cloudlet.
• Fixed an interoperability issue causing ALB to stick to non-ALB origins.
• Fixed an interoperability issue causing ALB behavior to override other cloudlets lower in the property.
• Fixed an issue causing two load balancing configurations to override each other. From now on case-insensitive uniqueness of configuration names is enforced.
• Fixed an issue causing multiple email notifications for the same policy activation to be sent.

Script Management Update

• An Akamai Control Center notification now appears when the SPOF (Single Point of Failure) activity for a hostname exceeds 10%. This notification is visible to all account users. You can find more information about SPOF Protection in the Script Management documentation.

DataStream is more flexible and stable now!

You can leverage a new DataStream Configuration API that lets you create and manage stream configurations. The DataStream Pull API is no longer enabled by default. You can configure the Pull API for a stream by adding a DataStream buffer as a destination. It lets you store log data for up to 12 hours and fetch it with the Pull API.  *Bug fixes.

EdgeWorkers now offers these expanded compute and orchestration capabilities:

• Response Orchestration - With the introduction of Response Orchestration, EdgeWorkers now supports the ability to read and modify response bodies. This capability lets EdgeWorkers developers make Edge decisions, build content, and optionally cache response output.
• External requests - External requests are supported via the responseProvider event handler. EdgeWorkers developers can now fetch resources from other external origins and add them directly or indirectly into the main response body.
• Reports - We’ve added Reports to the EdgeWorkers Management application to provide insight about the performance and execution status of your EdgeWorkers.
• Fast Activation - EdgeWorkers supports Fast Activation to decrease the EdgeWorkers code bundle activation times.
• Expanded Product Delivery support - The following media products are now supported as EdgeWorkers delivery products: Adaptive Media Delivery, Download Delivery, Object Delivery, and API Acceleration.
• Enhanced debug headers - To protect sensitive content, EdgeWorkers now require an authorization token in an additional second header to retrieve detailed debug information.
• Increased resource limit - We’ve increased the memory, CPU time, and wall time compute resources limits.

For more information about these new capabilities refer to the EdgeWorkers User Guide.

The latest mPulse update includes the following:

• Added a new System Dashboard to mPulse called “Core Web Vitals.” This dashboard supports the metrics and timers associated with Google’s Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. Note: These timers/metrics are not supported other places within mPulse (outside of this dashboard). Support will be added elsewhere in the coming weeks.

Image and Video Manager September 2020 updates:

Aspect Ratio Crop

Use this new transformation to change the height or width of an image, by cropping or expanding the area, to an aspect ratio of your choosing.

Event Viewer support

The Event Viewer in Akamai Control Center now records Image and Video Manager - Policy Manager events and details.

WepP support for iOS 14

With iOS 14, Safari 14 supports WebP. Image and Video Manager automatically sends WebP derivative images to Safari when appropriate.

API updates

You can now use the API to view the log and error details that the Image and Video Manager API generates for images and videos over the last three days. The API also lists the range of HTTP status codes along with their likely causes. For more information refer to the List log details section and the List error details section in the Image Manager API v2 documentation.

Image and Video Manager Dashboard

We’ve made these updates to the dashboard as part of our continuous improvement process:

• Moved the position of additional data about image formats and quality levels to make it visible on the screen.
• Updated the hover text for the Quality Level Distribution metric.
• Renamed the JXR content type to JPEG-XR and JPG to JPEG for accuracy and consistency.