Gravitee.io API Platform 3.4
We are pleased to announce that Gravitee.io API Platform version 3.4 is now available.
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What’s new in API Management?
Here are the new features we would like to highlight :
- New Policy Studio
- Dynamic notification templates
- Override settings via environment variables
New Policy Studio
This version comes with a brand new Policy Studio, which is a big change on Gravitee.io.
This has been completely restyled to provide a better user experience and allow more capabilities while designing your API.
The concept of flows has been introduced to allow you to define multiple flows based on simple of complex conditions. So basically, you would be able to provide a condition based on the requested path / verbs but also on a more advanced condition based on your request by using our powerful Expression Language.
Online documentation: https://components.gravitee.io
Dynamic notification templates
Notification templates can now be changed directly from the UI dynamically. These are still loaded from your own templates, but can be overloaded.
This will allow you to customize the content of emails / browser’s notifications.
Online documentation: https://docs.gravitee.io/apim/3.x/apim_installguide_configuration_notifications.html#templates
Override settings via environment variables
With this new version, you are now able to override settings using environment variables or gravitee.yml configuration. This way, you can configure your APIM without any post actions (REST API calls) to update some dynamic settings.
Online documentation: https://docs.gravitee.io/apim/3.x/apim_installguide_rest_apis_configuration.html#management_settings
And more …
You can find the full changelog here and the list of deprecations and breaking changes here. We have also added the following features so you can:
- Reporter file / TCP
- Support ticket history
- API label’s dictionary
- …
For this, just follow the installation guide and start to play with Gravitee.io by using Docker.
The plugins have been deployed here and you can get the distribution here.
You have questions, suggestions, issues, we would be happy to help you from our Gitter channel.
What’s new in Access Management?
Here are the new features we would like to highlight :
- Passwordless enhancement
- Gateway sticky sessionless
- Google identity provider
Passwordless enhancement
Gravitee.io AM 3.4 now let you register multiple credentials (devices) for each user account. New information in the credentials endpoint has been added for example:
- User-agent and IP address of last login with this credential
- Time of last login with this credential
We also improve FIDO conformance tests with :
- Support for User Verification
- Support for Attestation Conveyance
Gateway sticky sessionless
Since the beginning, AM Gateway has been using a server side session to back up some context information during user authentication flow (such as login, passwordless, multi-factor, consent).
In most cases, this server session was lost when 2 consecutive calls were handled on 2 different gateway instances.
To avoid this problem, the simplest solution was to configure a sticky on the load balancer in front of the gateways but the problem sometimes still occurred during redeploy or auto scaling phases.
The server session has been replaced with a minimalist Cookie Session in the 3.4 version.
Gravitee.io Access Management also provides integration with Google to let users use their Google account to sign in to your applications.
For more information about Google integration, see our user guide to getting started.
And more …
You can find the full change log here and the list of deprecations here.
The full JDBC support is coming in 3.5 which will allow our users to use either a MongoDB or a JDBC Access Management distribution.
To discover all these new features, just follow the installation guide or start to play with Gravitee.io by using Docker.
Waiting for your feedback, we would be happy to talk and help you from our Gitter channel.
