[Apiman-user] 1.3.1.Final released!

[Marc Savy]

First link should have been:

https://apiman.gitbooks.io/apiman-installation-guide/installation-guide/vertx/download.html#_3scale_immutable

On 27 June 2017 at 20:03, Marc Savy <marc.savy at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm delighted to announce Apiman 1.3.1.Final is out, with a few notable new
> features and improvements [1].
>
> ## 3scale-related functionality
>
> You can now use the Apiman Gateway with the 3scale Manager/UI as an
> alternative to the Apiman Manager/UI![2]
>
> Using an overlay file you can augment your 3scale APIs with apiman policies.
> There will hopefully be an opportunity for a more cohesive and deeper
> integration with 3scale in the near future. Your feedback and demand will
> drive this; I hope as many people try it out this functionality as possible!
>
> The new 3scale registry and plugin can perform all of the usual 3scale
> functions, such as auth, reporting, metrics, and rate-limiting; with the
> addition breadth of apiman's policies and pluggable functionality. The one
> exception is that 3scale OAuth is currently not implemented (apiman's OAuth
> plugins work as normal).
>
> I'll be providing some blogposts over the coming days to demonstrate the new
> features in a more digestible form, but the documentation is available
> already. Just download the Vert.x distro and follow the instructions:
>
> https://apiman.gitbooks.io/apiman-installation-guide/installation-guide/vertx/download.html#_headless_elasticsearch
>
> https://apiman.gitbooks.io/apiman-installation-guide/installation-guide/registries-and-components/3scale_immutable.html
>
> Expect some tooling soon to make generating JSON configurations for headless
> and 3scale registries easier!
>
> ## Bug-fixes & Improvements
>
> A good number of bugs were squashed in this release. Please try it out and
> let us know if your issues persist (if you had any!).
>
> The HTTP codes returned in error cases have been improved, including
> connection issues (e.g. DNS, timeouts, etc). You should no longer get HTTP
> 500 for these, and the error messages should be more meaningful. Let us know
> if there still seem to be issues in this area.
>
> There were a few issues with TLS on the Vert.x gateway that have been
> improved (e.g. devmode was not working properly). In the near future we'll
> look to provide some sort of self-signed certificate generation so that TLS
> can be configured OOTB. As an added bonus, if you provide ALPN Boot, then
> HTTP/2 should just work[3].
>
> ## You can help!
>
> Please try the new functionality and let us know how you find it. Your
> demand and feedback is extremely important to the future direction of this
> project.
>
> ## Next
>
> Expect another release very soon with more functionality, configurability
> and tooling.
>
> Some users have reported issues with the new GitBook documentation, so I'll
> be looking to improve this.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
> [1] The more eagle-eyed amongst you will no doubt have noticed that most of
> this was actually released a few days ago.
> [2] You will need 3scale SaaS or on-prem for this to work.
> [3] More in a blog soon.