Release notes for Cloud-native API Gateway

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New region

API Gateway is now available in the Atlanta region.

New feature

• Supports Gateway API, aligning with the latest Kubernetes usage standards.

• The APIG Ingress Controller component is available on Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) clusters.

• REST APIs support parameter validation.

Improvement

• Resource quotas expanded to accommodate larger usage scales.

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New feature

• HTTP and REST APIs now support the import and export of APIs and their associated resources, including policies, plug-ins, consumer authentication and authorization, and services. This simplifies cross-instance API data migration.

• REST APIs now support publishing and unpublishing at the operation level.

Improvement

Improved API consistency across internal and external instances.

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Description

New feature

• The APIG Ingress Controller is now available in ACK.

• Public traffic now supports the international BGP network line type.

• You can now add the public IP addresses of gateways to Cloud Firewall.

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New region

Added the Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) region.

New feature

Added risk management capabilities.

Improvement

Added risk warnings for insecure authentication plug-ins.

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New feature

Added support for discovering SAE Kubernetes services across VPCs.

Improvement

The global authentication and authorization allowlist now supports request domains that include port numbers.

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New feature

• You can now change the network mode from public or private to public and private.

• For instances that use both public and private networks, you can now publish APIs to either the public or private network.

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New feature

REST APIs now support version rollbacks.

Improvement

When you import a REST API, the existing consumer authentication and authorization configurations are no longer overwritten.

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Description

New feature

You can now enable consumer authentication and authorization for multiple REST API operations in a single batch.

New region

Added the Korea (Seoul) region.

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Description

New feature

• Added support for 95th percentile bandwidth with CDT and single-line (non-BGP) traffic.

• Added support for QAT hardware-accelerated compression and decompression.

Improvement

• Canary releases for multiple services now support a traffic ratio as low as 0.01%.

• You can now modify the specification of an instance during auto scaling.

• You can now configure more than three time periods for scheduled auto scaling.

New region

Added the China (Qingdao) region.

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Description

New feature

• Instance-level REST APIs now support multiple versions and base_path rewriting.

• Added support for Layer 4 allowlists and blocklists to significantly improve protection against abnormal traffic.

Improvement

The redesigned observability dashboard now supports more comprehensive monitoring dimensions.

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Description

New feature

• API timeout policies now support millisecond-level timeout settings.

• API retry policies now support configurable retry intervals in milliseconds.

Improvement

Fixed an issue where service warm-up did not take effect in certain scenarios.

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Description

New feature

Added support for a streamlined migration process from Nginx Ingress.

Improvement

Consumer authentication and authorization now supports operation-level configuration and can be enabled or disabled for each operation.

New regions

• China site: Added the China (Hangzhou), China (Zhangjiakou), and China (Hong Kong) regions.

• International site: Launched with availability in the Singapore and US (Virginia) regions.

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Description

New feature

• Launched AI Gateway.

• Added support for scheduled auto scaling policies.

• Added support for plug-in logs.

• Core resources now support management through resource groups and tags.

New regions

China site: Added the China (Ulanqab) and Singapore regions.

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Description

New feature

• Added support for SAE Kubernetes services.

• Swagger import now supports custom URLs and OSS URLs.

• Added support for consumer authentication and authorization.

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General availability

Cloud-native API Gateway has reached general availability (GA).

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Description

New feature

• Introduced plug-in management. You can use over 20 official plug-ins or create your own.

• You can now generate SDKs and documentation for your APIs.

• Added support for private network access.

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Description

New feature

Cloud-native API Gateway is launched.

• Combines the capabilities of an API gateway, traffic gateway, microservices gateway, and security gateway.

• Provides full-lifecycle API management, from design and development to testing and publishing.

• Includes routing management capabilities.

• Integrates with Container Service for Kubernetes, MSE Nacos, and Function Compute (FC) to enable rapid API publishing for your services.