The latest update to API Gateway introduces a new functionality that lets you hide inactive API configurations from the registered APIs list as well as individual API configuration versions from the version history panel. This contributes to a more transparent and clutter-free interface.

The latest update for diagnostics tools release includes :

• Portal Query Cache application has been upgraded which now enables improved stability and performance of Client URL (CURL), Get Domain Details (DIG), Test Network Connectivity (MTR) and View Logs (Grep) tools.

• The Location drop-down menu is now ordered by DIG & MTR tools in order to make it easier for users to find a location.

• On the Diagnostic Tools landing page the link to the documentation has been updated to direct to learn.akamai.com

• The legacy ESI syntax validator is now available on Pulsar.  

The latest update for diagnostics tools release includes :

• Portal Query Cache application has been upgraded which now enables improved stability and performance of Client URL (CURL), Get Domain Details (DIG), Test Network Connectivity (MTR) and View Logs (Grep) tools.

• The Location drop-down menu is now ordered by DIG & MTR tools in order to make it easier for users to find a location.

• On the Diagnostic Tools landing page the link to the documentation has been updated to direct to learn.akamai.com

• The legacy ESI syntax validator is now available on Pulsar.  

Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) now includes the following updates:

Enterprise Client Connector version 1.3.1 is now in beta and available for download. This version of Client Connector includes the following:

• Protection on or off the corporate network: Regardless of network conditions, Client Connector protects end user machines that are on or off the corporate network.
• Auto Upgrade: Client Connector now supports automatic upgrade. In ETP, administrators can choose to force an upgrade on end user machines or allow end users to initiate an upgrade when it’s available.
• Optimized Internet routing: Client Connector sends requests to the ETP DNS servers in the closest geographical region. As a result, ETP returns the IP address of the origin server that is in proximity to the client connector, allowing Client Connector to connect to local websites through the best-performing path.
• Support for split DNS and split VPN network topologies: Client Connector now supports complex network topologies, including a split DNS or split VPN topology.
• Improved Client Connector user interface: The client connector user interface has been redesigned. In addition to improving the overall appearance of the client connector, an icon now allows end users to access the application from a Windows toolbar or Mac menu bar.
• Installation and Error Reports: Reports are now available on the Client Connector tab of the Utilities page (Configuration > Utilities) where the client connector software is downloaded in ETP. Administrators now see the total number of deployed client connectors and any detected errors. A CSV report is also available for download that contains additional information about deployed client connectors, including the overall status.
• Network configuration of internal IP addresses and DNS suffixes: When configuring Client Connector, administrators can also provide internal IP addresses and the DNS suffixes of domains that end users can access while they are protected by Client Connector. Options are available for administrators to add the IP address ranges or blocks that are reserved on the Internet for private or internal networks as defined by RFC 1918 and RFC 4193. The new Network Configuration tab is available on the Utilities page and accessible from the Configuration area of the Client Connector tab.

Advertisement domains removed from Privacy category of Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) To resolve an issue with custom Error pages in Enterprise Threat Protector, advertisement domains were removed from the Privacy category of the AUP. If the Privacy AUP category is blocked in a policy, this change reduces or eliminates the number of alerts that are based on this category.

This change is a temporary solution. Akamai plans to improve AUP services and eventually restore domains in the Privacy category. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact technical support.

ExoPlayer Loader v2.8

Supports event tracking and reporting of metrics.

Change in Escalation Contacts in Manage Users and Groups Application

To add escalation contacts in the Manage Users and Groups application, please open a business support case using the link available in the application.

Property Manager Origin Settings with Amazon S3

If you use an Amazon S3 origin, you will no longer be able to “pin” the origin certificate in the Property Manager origin behavior Origin SSL Certificate Verification section.  This is due to the frequent nature of certificate rotation by Amazon S3 services and resulting outages when retrieving content from your origin.  If you use an Amazon S3 origin, for verification settings, choose ‘Third Party Settings’ or ‘Choose Your Own’ with Trust Option ‘Akamai-managed Certificate Authorities Sets’ and ‘Third Party Certificate Store’ Enabled.

The latest update for Akamai Test Center (ATC) includes

• New support for testing hostnames that are in the process of being on-boarded to Akamai. Previously, ATC could only be used to test hostnames that were hosted by Akamai Production servers. In this release that restriction is lifted. HTTP Response Code and Response Headers are the comparison types currently supported for hostnames not hosted by Akamai Production Servers.

• Various stability improvements to allow more concurrent test runs and faster throughput per user.

Enhancements in Manage Users and Groups Application

• First and last name fields, role and group name fields now support unicode characters.
• Role names in Roles tab are now sorted alphabetically.  The complete role description is also shown as a tooltip.
• New user creation emails no longer contain the user’s temporary password. Instead, the process has changed to utilize the rotate password workflow to self-service creation of new password. The new user welcome email has instructions for users to set their password. This is an added security feature.
• Bug fixes for supporting valid domain names in the Settings tab.
• Other small bug fixes.

Introducing the New Media Delivery Reports UI 

What’s New

Direct access to each delivery product report from the Mega Menu

Tab-based navigation that allows for easy switching between report categories

Highly intuitive data classification (Traffic, Performance, Availability, URLs, Unique Viewers)

New Filter bar for improved visibility of applied filters

Enhancements 

Real-time data, based on sampled data sets and indicative of total traffic, is now available for Adaptive Media Delivery and Download Delivery at a latency of 15 minutes

Email Reports can be downloaded in the CSV format. Individual CSV files are available for each configured widget

Zoom In/Out functionality for detailed analysis of a selected time period

UI enhanced as follows:

Increased widget height to show more data

Pagination available to view complete widget data

Enhanced analyze data view

CP code description is shown with the name for better identification.

New metrics included

Origin Hits/sec

Edge Hits/sec

Midgress Hits/sec

Midgress Bandwidth

NetStorage Bandwidth

The format for downloaded CSV has changed as follows:

Data formatted in GMT instead of epoch.

Aggregation is available in seconds.

Changes

Change in the following metric names:

Origin Hits/Volume are now Customer Origin Hits/Volume.

Ingress metrics which include data for both NetStorage Origin and other origins are now Origin metrics.

Known Issues

Email reports must be reconfigured in the new UI as 1:1 migration of existing reports is not available.