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Help Center/ API Gateway/ What's New

What's New

Updated on 2024/12/24 GMT+08:00

The tables below describe the functions released in each API Gateway version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.

October 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Reference load balance channel

The reference load balance channel can reference other existing load balance channels.

Commercial use

Load Balance Channels

2

Traffic Mirroring

APIG mirrors requests to images for traffic analysis without affecting online services.

Commercial use

Traffic Mirroring

June 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Custom Inbound Port

APIG allows you to customize inbound ports for gateways so that clients can access different backend services through different ports.

Commercial use

Custom Inbound Port

2

Gateway access control policies

APIG provides access control policies to gateways. You can set an IP address blacklist or whitelist to forbid or allow an IP address to access a gateway. 

Commercial use

Viewing or Modifying Gateway Information

May 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Orchestration Rule Management

APIG supports API parameter orchestration. You can configure different algorithm rules to map new request parameters and values.

Commercial use

Orchestration Rule Management

2

Response Cache

You can configure a response cache policy to cache responses returned by the backend service (server) in APIG. When a client sends the same request, APIG does not need to send the request to the backend service but directly returns the cached response. This effectively reduces the backend load and API invoking latency.

Commercial use

Response Cache

March 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Unescaping parameters supported for API request path

You can configure whether to escape the parameters of the API path.

Commercial use

Configuring Parameters

January 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

gRPC APIs with a function backend

gRPC APIs can use a function backend.

Commercial use

Creating a gRPC API

2

Client request customization

You can customize client request parameters, such as enabling or disabling HTTP/2 and modifying the request body timeout.

Commercial use

Configuring Parameters

October 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Support for OpenAPI 3.0

APIs can be imported or exported in compliance with OpenAPI 3.0.

Commercial use

Importing and Exorting APIs

2

API policy cloning

You can quickly create API policies by cloning existing ones. Request throttling and signature key policies cannot be cloned.

Commercial use

Creating a Policy and Binding It to APIs

3

Server-sent events(SSE) transmission

The responses of backend APIs are output in streaming mode for character-based rendering.

Commercial use

Configuring Parameters

September 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

gRPC supported

If both your client and server are of the gRPC type, you can create an gRPC API to open up your backend capabilities.

Commercial use

Creating a gRPC API

Routing gRPC Service Requests

August 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

gzip compression

Responses can be compressed using gzip to reduce public network traffic.

Commercial use

Configuring Parameters

May 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Third-Party Authorizer

You can configure your own service to authenticate API requests. APIG first invokes this service for authentication, and then invokes the backend service after receiving a success response.

Commercial use

Third-Party Authorizer

2

Custom Logs

Whether to enable custom logs. Once enabled, values of specified parameters will be printed in specified locations of calling logs for all APIs in the gateway.

Commercial use

Configuring Parameters

March 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Cloning an API

To improve API creation efficiency, you can clone an API with a custom name and path.

Commercial use

Cloning an API

February 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Frontend HTTPS two-way authentication

CA certificates can be added to verify client certificates. When a client connects to a server, the client verifies the server and the server also verifies the client.

Commercial use

SSL Certificates

2

Custom authentication headers

You can configure custom headers for app authentication or authentication with HMAC or Basic Auth signature key policies.

Commercial use

Configuring Parameters

December 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Microservice load balance channels

Server channels balance the loads of backend services and microservice channels automatically synchronize service node changes.

Commercial use

Load Balance Channels

2

HTTP-to-HTTPS auto redirection

Requests of HTTP backends can be automatically redirected to HTTPS.

Commercial use

Managing Domain Names

3

Gateway tags

Tags classify your dedicated gateways to facilitate search, analysis, and management.

Commercial use

Tag Management

November 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Bandwidth monitoring

APIG provides monitoring metrics about inbound and outbound bandwidth.

Commercial use

Bandwidth Monitoring

October 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Importing CCE workloads

By importing Cloud Container Engine (CCE) workloads, you can open your CCE service capabilities through APIs.

Commercial use

Importing a CCE Workload

September 2022

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Redirection from HTTP to HTTPS

HTTP backends can be redirected to HTTPS.

Commercial use

Signature keys

2

Log modularization

Log templates are available for O&M.

Commercial use

Log Analysis

3

Request throttling 2.0 policy

The new console supports high-performance and single-node request throttling.

Commercial use

Request Throttling 2.0

4

Circuit breaker policy

The new console supports circuit breaker policies. They protect your backend services when a performance issue occurs.

Commercial use

Circuit Breaker

5

API calling through HTTP 2.0

APIs can be called through HTTP 2.0 with better latency and performance.

Commercial use

HTTP 2.0

6

Gateway specification modification

If the specifications of a gateway cannot meet your service requirements, upgrade the specifications.

Commercial use

Modifying Specifications

7

Access control policy

The new console supports access control policies. They restrict API calls from specified client (API caller) IP addresses to protect backend services.

Commercial use

Binding an Access Control Policy

8

Credential quota policy

You can create quota policies for a client (API caller) on the new console to limit the number of API calls during a specified period.

Commercial use

Binding a Credential Quota Policy

9

Kafka log push policy

The new console supports collecting calling logs of open APIs. Kafka log push policies push API calling logs to Kafka for users to obtain.

Commercial use

Kafka Log Push

10

SSL certificate management

The new console supports SSL certificate management.

Commercial use

SSL Certificates

11

New APIG console

The new console is now available with powerful policy-based API control.

Commercial use

New Console

December 2021

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Request throttling plugin

The plug-in is used to limit the number of times an API can be called within a specific time period. Parameter-based, basic, and excluded throttling is supported.

Commercial use

Request Throttling

June 2021

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Dedicated gateway APIs

Dedicated gateways enable you to decouple internal systems of your enterprise and deploy services in Virtual Private Clouds(VPCs). The services communicate with each other through RESTful APIs, with high network security.

Commercial use

Service Overview

Buying a Dedicated Gateway

Best Practices

January 2020

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

API design, review, and release

You can design, develop, review, and release APIs.

Commercial use

Creating an API Group

December 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

API export

You can export APIs in JSON or YAML format

Commercial use

Exporting APIs

November 2018

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Multi-project management

API Gateway supports multi-project management.

Commercial use

Enterprise Project

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