• Log Delivery FTP test functionality is no longer supported and isn’t required to create or edit configurations.

Bug fix for mPulse auto-app creation feature

A component in the recent Property Manager (19.3) release and mPulse auto-app creation feature had a bug. Each time a new version of a RUM-enabled property only was changed, a new mPulse app was automatically created. mPulse auto-app creation should happen only when a change to an existing property has the mPulse behavior enabled. In this release, mPulse apps were automatically created whether the property configuration version had the mPulse behavior enabled or not.

To address the issue, the component that caused the bug has been rolled back, which prevents the auto-creation of a new mPulse app when a change is made to an existing property that does not have the mPulse behavior enabled. With this rollback, new mPulse apps are automatically created only when the mPulse behavior is added to the property configuration and the API Key field is left blank.

Today we are pleased to announce the latest updates to the Akamai Control Center:

• A fix to an issue with users with only one account
• An improved visibility to the current account
• Updated localization for all languages

Enhancements in Identity and Access Management Application

• The Escalation category “24x7” has been renamed “General Notifications”. The name change impacts the “Escalation contacts” tab as well the “Subscribe to notifications” tab in the user profile screen.
• A new password policy, aka90_complex, has been introduced as part of Account Settings. This aka90_complex policy is an extension of the aka90 policy and enforces a stricter password standard.
  You can find policy details in the Settings tab.

The latest Adaptive Acceleration release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Added Automatic Font Preload to the optimizations provided by Adaptive Acceleration. Font Preload allows the CDN edge server to determine the most important fonts using beacon data. These fonts are then identified with a response header so they can be downloaded before the browser has processed the base request. Display of font preloads will be available on control.akamai.com on June 18. Customers will be able to toggle the feature on and off starting on June 25.
• Policies using the mPulse data source will now respect the push/preload toggles in the Adaptive Acceleration behavior.
• A bug that prevented customers from getting policies when sending synthetic traffic to their properties (with tools like WebPageTest) has been fixed. Sites that only receive synthetic traffic should now receive more pushes, preconnects, and font preloads.

Additional threat information is now available in Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP)

ETP administrators and viewers can now:

• View the threat name associated with a threat event.
• Filter threat events by its name and severity level. A Threat Name and Severity dimension is now available for this purpose.
• Search by the threat name on the Indicator Search page. In the search results, this page shows:
  • A description that details how the threat spreads and impacts a network.
  • Other names for the threat
  • Severity level
  • Threat type. For example, if it’s a worm, trojan, malware, or another threat type.
  • External links to resources on the Internet with more information.
  • A graph that illustrates the number of events generated by the threat in the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, and this month.

This feature is currently in beta.

New Features:

• Origin Assisted Prefetching: Prefetching positions your HLS live and on-demand objects at the Edge to ready them for requests and reduces the overall time for delivery. To implement this, we now offer the Segmented Media Streaming - Prefetch behavior in Property Manager, which relies on the “origin assist” prefetch model–your origin needs to be set up to send details on the objects that need to be prefetched, in its response.

Bug Fixes:

• Denial for certain unauthorized ServerIP Requests: We’ve fixed a bug that prevented denial of ServerIP requests, even though other requests from a related client were denied by AMD’s Enhanced Proxy Detection or the Content Targeting functionalities. These associated ServerIP requests are now denied as expected in such cases.

New Features: 

We have added support for new behaviors in a subcustomer policy:

• Request Header Rewrite: Use this behavior to modify the outgoing request headers sent from Akamai to an origin. This also works on request headers sent from a client if the request is sent back to the origin, but not a cache hit.
• Response Header Rewrite: Use this behavior to modify the outgoing response headers sent from the origin or CDN edge back to the client.

Details on the use of this behavior are covered in the documentation for the Akamai Cloud Embed API v2

The latest update for the Akamai University release includes:

• Stability improvements.
• Bug fixes.

Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) now includes these features and enhancements:

Security templates now available. An ETP administrator can now apply a security template or a preset template to a policy configuration. This allows administrators to implement best practices when configuring policy actions. It also gives administrators a starting point to defining a policy.

When creating or modifying a policy, you can select one of these templates:

• Strict. Contains settings that block known and most suspected threat categories. This template applies settings that are a best practice for a policy.
• Monitor-only. Logs and reports threats but it does not block them. The Monitor-only template is ideal for testing or assessing policy impact before using the Strict template. This template assigns the monitor policy action to all known and suspected threat categories.
• Custom. Let’s you define policy actions for known and suspected threats.

A security template defines settings for threat categories in the Akamai Security tab only.

Updates to delegated and tenant access. A delegated administrator can now:

• Add email address for communication emails and assign communication emails. A delegated administrator can assign these users to any communication email.
• View Security Connector activity.

A tenant administrator can now:

• Add emails address for communication emails and configure these users to receive communication emails for alerts and system issues.
• Schedule a report.
• View and analyze DNS event data on the Dashboard, Event Analysis, and DNS activity pages.

The data in a scheduled report and on these reporting pages are based on the locations the tenant administrator can access.

Source IP now a dimension for DNS activity: On the DNS tab of the Activity page, you can now report the top source IP addresses that generated DNS requests. Source IP is now available as a dimension or data type in all DNS activity menus.