What's new in Version 10.0.5.2

This page details the enhancements in IBM® API Connect Version 10.0.5.2 since the previous release.

What's new for Developers

Added the Date custom scalar type for GraphQL APIs
You can use the Date custom scalar type in GraphQL APIs to define custom scalars that specify dates. For more information, see Extensions to GraphQL.

Ability to set the API Designer locale
You can set a different locale than your current operating system for the API Designer application, by using the --lang argument when you start the application. For example, by using the --lang=es argument when you start API Designer, the language is set to Spanish. For more information, see Setting the locale for API Designer.

Ability to switch directories in API Designer
You can switch to a different directory after logging in to the API Designer application UI, by clicking Switch directory on the menu bar in the header. For more information, see Logging in from API Designer.

OpenAPI validation
You can now click Validate in the API Manager and API Designer API editors to validate your OpenAPI YAML source. If validation errors are found, you can click each error to navigate directly to the section of the API form that contains the invalid YAML. For more information, see Validating the OpenAPI YAML source.

Support for multiple OAuth2 flows in OpenAPI 3.0 APIs
If you're creating or editing OpenAPI 3.0 APIs, you can now select multiple flows (grant types) for your OAuth2 security schemes. For more information about how to create OAuth2 security schemes, see Defining OAuth2 security scheme components.

Create and manage API keys for platform APIs
Create API keys associated with your user account, and then use them to authenticate when you call the APIs provided by API Connect. For more information, see Managing API keys.

What's new for API product managers

Analytics UI enhancements
The analytics UI now includes the following enhancements:
  • All analytics views can be switched between local time and Coordinated Universal Time.
  • Analytics charts can be switched between linear and logarithmic axes, selectable from the chart options menu.
  • Analytics data can be shown going back to the start of your data retention period, not just the last 30 days.
  • When you create and edit queries, the custom time range option now provides precision to the second, rather than the minute.
  • Up to 200 events per page now viewable in the discover view tables.
  • Updated columns in the discover view, providing clearer and more useful information.
  • New query fields for gateway_ip, client_ip, immediate_client_ip. Queries can use CIDR notation to search by subnet.
  • New refresh button on dashboards to update the data that is displayed, without the need to reload the browser.
  • Ability to save and load analytics queries. Saved queries are stored in the analytics backup.

Analytics CLI and REST API enhancements
New filter operators for use with the CLI and REST API: startswith, endswith, regex, notoneof. For more information, see Example toolkit CLI operations.

Additional variables for customizing the email notification templates
More variables are available to add to the email notification templates, so that you can define custom templates with more flexibility when addressing the user that's receiving the email. The following user variables are now available:
  • originator
  • originatorFirstName
  • originatorLastName
  • originatorEmail
  • username
  • email
  • firstName
  • lastName
For more information, see Configuring notifications in the API Manager, and Customizing email notification templates in the Cloud Manager.

What's new for API consumers

Consumer analytics redesign
The analytics dashboards in the Developer Portal are redesigned and enhanced. As well as viewing the standard analytics metrics for APIs at the application and organization level, API consumers can now view additional information, including response time, status codes, number of errors, and API call history.

What's new for Developer Portal administrators

Use the toolkit CLI to enable and disable maintenance mode on your Developer Portal site
You can now enable and disable maintenance mode on your Developer Portal site, by using the Portal commands in the toolkit CLI. For more information, see How to enable and disable maintenance mode on your Developer Portal.

New drupal-state commands available in the Developer Portal command-line tool
The drupal-state commands enable you to store and retrieve information about the state of your Developer Portal system. For more information, see Using the drupal-state commands.

What's new for DevOps

New requirement when installing or upgrading Developer Portal subsystem on VMware
If there are multiple Management subsystems in the same project, you must set the Developer Portal subsystem's platform-api and consumer-api certificates to match those used by the appropriate Management subsystem to ensure that the Developer Portal subsystem is correctly associated with that Management subsystem.
Instructions are included in the following topics:
New dbClientPrimaryuser certificate

The Management component has a new certificate and secret called dbClientPrimaryuser, see: Internal certificates.

If your deployment is installed on Kubernetes, and you use customized internal certificates, see the additional upgrade step: Add db primary certificate.

If your deployment is installed on OpenShift, Cloud Pak for Integration, or OVA then no action is required.

Additional requirement for disaster recovery when Management subsystem uses S3 backups
If you installed API Connect on Red Hat OpenShift or Cloud Pak for Integration by using the top-level apiconnectcluster CR, you must annotate the CR as part of the disaster recovery process. The instructions for recovering from a disaster include a new step to guide you through the annotation procedure.

New deployment profiles with new CPU licensing limits
New deployment profiles are available, and CPU licensing limits updated. The spec.license.metric now correctly maps to the productMetric annotation for the containers that require license entitlement. See CPU limits, Memory limits, and licensing. Some existing profiles are deprecated, see API Connect deployment profiles for OpenShift and Cloud Pak for Integration.

Portal CR status message field
A new message field has been added to the output of kubectl|oc get PortalCluster. This new field provides portal status information, for example:
NAME     READY   STATUS    VERSION   RECONCILED VERSION   MESSAGE                                      AGE
portal   3/4     Pending   10        10.0.5.2-0           Mounted certificates are not valid           8d
portal   4/4     Running   10        10.0.5.2-0           1 site(s) are not in sync with API Manager   8d
portal   4/4     Running   10        10.0.5.2-0           Ready for service registration               8d
portal   3/3     Running   10        10.0.5.2-0           Ready to create sites                        22h
portal   3/3     Running   10        10.0.5.2-0           1 site is installing                         22h
portal   3/3     Running   10        10.0.5.2-0           Serving 2 sites                              22h
portal   3/3     Warning   10        10.0.5.2-0           Preparing for site upgrade(s)                22h
portal   3/3     Warning   10        10.0.5.2-0           Site Upgrades Executing:(0) Queued(1) Failed(0) Success(0)   22h

Manual portal backup and restore supports multiple portal clusters
Kubernetes, Cloud Pak for Integration, and OpenShift only: The portal backup and restore CRs now have a portalCluster property that specifies which portal cluster to apply the backup or restore to. For more information, see: Backing up and restoring .

New API consumption dashboard
Monitor total API calls in your cloud with the new consumption dashboard available in the Cloud Manager UI, see Cloud Manager UI analytics view.

Compatibility matrix for Kubernetes and OpenShift versions included in documentation
Tables that show which versions of IBM API Connect are compatible with which Kubernetes and OpenShift releases are now provided as a quick reference in the software product compatibility requirements page: IBM API Connect Version 10 software product compatibility requirements.

Managing Developer Portal backup resources
If you are using remote backups, and there are a large number of rows in your portalbackup list that have a CR TYPE of record, there might be a slow down in system performance, including during Developer Portal upgrades. Although there is no upper limit to how many portal backups you can have, it is recommended that you prune your remote backups so that the number of rows does not become excessively large. One portalbackup row of type record, corresponds to one backup file on the configured remote backup server. For more information, see Overview of the Developer Portal backup resources.

What's new for security practitioners

Migrate token revocation information to DataPower® API Gateway
You can use the Token Migration Utility (TMU) to migrate token revocation information from a v5 quota enforcement server (QES) to a gateway-peering cache in v10 DataPower API Gateway. For more information, see Migrating token revocation information to DataPower API Gateway.