The latest update for the Case Management release includes:

• Support for LatAm Essentials. Users of support level accounts are now able to view new response times and frequency information for LatAm Essentials.

The new THEOPlayer loader supports:

• Automatic detection and reporting of advertisements.
• Tracking and reporting of player events.

Script Management Updates

• A message now appears when a user activates a policy on a property that is not currently activated. This message explains that the property must be activated in Analysis and Action mode before the policy can be applied.
• You can now use the Open API to push policies to a property that is not active. This behavior is consistent with Akamai Control Center and the Open API.

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

• Optimize Microsoft 365 Traffic.  The new Optimize Microsoft 365 Traffic setting in a policy allows ETP to quickly identity and resolve requests to Microsoft 365 apps and services. This option retrieves the latest Microsoft 365 domains and IP addresses from Microsoft and enables this traffic to securely bypass ETP Proxy scanning. By leveraging Akamai’s network of servers, this setting provides optimal routing to Microsoft 365 apps and services.
• Allow or block domains incompatible with TLS MITM Certificate. With the new Block Incompatible Domains toggle in a policy, you can allow or block domains that are not compatible with the TLS man-in-the-middle (MITM) certificate. The TLS MITM certificate is the certificate you generated or uploaded in ETP for ETP Proxy. Akamai maintains a list of these domains. By default, these domains are allowed and bypass ETP Proxy scanning.
• New identity provider activity report. If your organization is licensed for ETP Advanced Threat and uses an identity provider, a new Identity Provider Activity report is now available on the Activity page. This report indicates when a login was attempted, successful, or a failure. It also shows when an identity provider session was restarted as a result of updating a user group.
• Grant Akamai Support permission to view activity reports. In the Akamai Support tab of the Utilities page, you can now allow Akamai Support to view your organization’s DNS, Proxy and Identity Provider activity reports. If Akamai Support already has administrative access to your organization’s ETP configuration, this view permission is automatically granted.
• Unclassified Traffic setting is now called Default Action. The Unclassified Traffic setting in a policy is now called Default Action. This setting is available in the Proxy Settings area of the policy. The action you select is applied to unclassified traffic and to Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) categories that have no action assigned.
• New and updated AUP categories are now in beta. New and enhanced AUP categories and subcategories are now available. If your organization is participating in the beta, you can allow or block these categories in a new or existing AUP. If a policy blocks a category that’s now discontinued, ETP allows you to confirm the block action to the new category. For a detailed list of categories, including new, updated, and discontinued categories, see the online help. The following feature is also available as part of this beta:
  • Custom Response for AUP. If ETP Proxy is not enabled, you can assign custom responses to blocked AUP categories. This enhancement allows you to direct AUP traffic to resources of your choice.

 To participate in the AUP beta, contact your Akamai representative.

Starting from August 10, you can leverage the new Billing application in BETA. To get there, click the banner in Billing Center.

Billing helps you easily align your bill with the usage. Take advantage of:  

• New user interface
• Intuitive invoice information
• Usage by CP code 
• Invoice and usage alignment
• Multi-month data and reports
• Usage regional breakdown

For more information, see the Help link in the application.

The BETA version may have minor performance issues. We’re constantly working on improvements before releasing the final version.

The latest update for the Akamai University release includes:

• Support for LatAm Essentials. Support level account users are now able to access Akamai University and buy seats. Admin users are now able to enter a discount code and download report.

Image and Video Manager July 2020 release:

Fast Activation

• Image and Video Manager now supports Fast Activation to decrease deployment times when activating or updating policies.

General Updates & Bug Fixes

• Improvements to the global Akamai network deliver increased network scalability and flexibility.
• We’ve also made updates to the Image and Video Manager back-end software to provide greater stability and scalability.
• Fixed an issue with the ChromaKey and BackgroundColor transformations.
• Fixed an issue when compositing images and an image download fails.

Image and Video Manager Dashboard

• The links to the Top Hit Videos and Largest Pristine Videos by Byte Size are now clickable and include the hostname.

New Features:

• Auto Purge: We added support for editing Auto Purge settings.
• Auto-index: NetStorage now supports automatically applying an index (az2z) to uploaded zip files.

Enhancements:

• File Manager: Added the propagation status for newly created upload accounts in the File Manager UI.
• Storage Group Usage: No longer displays usage from deleted CP codes.

Bug fixes:

Fixed security vulnerability for all storage apps. General API & UI fixes.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new Ion rulesets that allow you to update existing property configurations to mirror new Akamai recommended settings (these rules will become default configurations in an upcoming release). To utilize these new recommendations, click Add Rule while configuring one of your existing properties. 

The new Ion rulesets include:

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.

The latest Property Manager update includes six new Ion rulesets that allow you to update existing property configurations to mirror new Akamai recommended settings (these rules will become default configurations in an upcoming release). To utilize these new recommendations, click Add Rule while configuring one of your existing properties. 

The new Ion rulesets include:

• Augment insights. Settings related to monitoring and reporting.
• Accelerate delivery. Settings related to improving the performance of delivering objects to your users.
• Offload origin. Settings related to caching content at the edge and in the browser.
• Strengthen security. Settings that minimize the information your website shares with clients and malicious entities to reduce your exposure to threats.
• Increase availability. Settings that control responding when your origin or third parties are slow or even down to minimize the negative impact on user experience.
• Minimize payload. Settings that reduce the size of the delivered content and decrease the number of bytes sent by your properties.