Release Notes:  Property Manager

New Features:

• Cache Tag Visibility.  A new Property Manager behavior that lets you control when cache tag headers are returned for debugging purposes.  Purge by cache tags let you group content and purge unique objects via the purge API.  See Purge content by cache tag for more details.
• Edge Hostname Limits.  In mid-February we will start to enforce platform safety limits on the number of edge hostnames you can create via Property Manager or PAPI. Until that time, the limit is not enforced, but you will see a status message in the Property Manager UI and in PAPI showing you how many edge hostnames you have remaining. If you are close to, or over, the limit, we encourage you to access the Edge hostnames application in Control Center and remove any unused edge hostnames you may have. You can also reach out to your account team to request a limit increase.

Bug Fixes:

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug Fix:

Chunked Transfer Encoding for Uncompressed content requests: With this release, we fixed an issue that caused playback issues with any device that requested uncompressed content, typically manifests and text subtitle files larger than 32 KB in size. This content is now delivered using chunked transfer encoding to clients which prevents playback issues. You might have experienced this issue if all the following conditions existed:

• Your AMD property configuration was created or modified after November 8th, 2019.
• Video on Demand (VOD) is the configured delivery mode.

For more information, contact your Akamai account representative.

The latest update for Traffic Reports available as part Ion and DSA includes the following features and enhancements:

• New Top Visitors report which displays hits and bytes by unique IP/user agent combinations. 

• Updated main Traffic report with a new “Cacheability” filter.  This feature allows distinguishing between cacheable and non-cacheable content across all Traffic report metrics.  

• Group filter to help narrow down CP Code selection based on groups. 

Android Library v3.5

New Feature

Support included for Integration Diagnoser v2.0.

New features:

• CacheServe. CacheServe is now the default resolver in AnswerX as opposed to the Unbound resolver. AnswerX will continue to support the Unbound recursive engine.   
• DNS Over TLS support in AnswerX Cloud. Customers can use DNS over TLS to prevent eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data using man-in-the-middle attacks, thereby increasing user privacy and security.

Enhanced features:

• DNS Over HTTPS Technical Preview scalability and performance enhancements. Provides a demo of DNS over HTTPS as a transport protocol to DNSi AnswerX using custom configuration settings.

• DNS64 improvements. DNS64 support is now fully policy-based rather than relying on the Unbound resolver for parts of its behavior.

• Enhanced AnswerX streaming function. Enables Akamai DNS components to communicate securely (for example, enables on-net secure communication between AnswerX proxy and AnswerX Cloud). 

The latest update to mPulse resolves an issue that caused alerts to be delayed and/or misfired in some cases.

New features:

• Liveness tests with many headers. You can define multiple HTTP headers for any HTTP(S) liveness test configuration using the API and user interface.

• Disable liveness tests. You can use the API or a checkbox in the user interface to disable a liveness test, which directs the GTM service to cease running the test and effectively treat the test as no longer existing.

• Static property types. You can use the API to configure static answers, such as an A record value for GTM properties, to deliver static record responses.

• Apex properties. You can configure properties at the apex record of a domain, which eliminates the need to create a subdomain of a GTM domain with only one property. The API and user interface display the apex record with an @ symbol.

• Terraform Provider. You can use Terraform Provider to minimize the activity required to manage and configure GTM domains and properties.

New features:

• Force zone deletes. You have the option to force zone deletions in cases when safety checks previously prevented it. The user interface alerts you to the risks of the deletion and requires your confirmation before the zone is deleted.

• Zone transfer status from Zone list. Zone list includes icons that display the status of many zone transfers in a single view. Green indicates a successful zone transfer, yellow indicates that one or more zone transfers have issues, and red indicates a zone transfer failure. You can click the icons to view additional status details for each zone.

• Terraform Provider. You can use Terraform Provider to minimize the activity required to manage and configure Fast DNS zones and record sets, especially in organizations that use multiple authoritative DNS providers.

With the latest update to mPulse, metrics that had been displayed as 9,999% will now correctly appear as 9.999%.

Enhancements in Identity and Access Management Application

• OPEN API clients for which the owner is no longer a user on Akamai Control Center will now be shown on the Identity and Access Management application. The owner of the API client will appear as [X] in the “User ID/Client Owner” column on the application list page. To find the original owner of the API client you can click on the API client and see the details page. You can transfer ownership of this API client to a new owner in the system.