Release 10.12

Explore the release highlights and usage notes for webMethods.io API Gateway.

Highlights

New Items

New Item	Description
Proof Key for Code Exchange Enhancements	Support for PKCE to secure OAuth 2.0 public clients at application level that uses the Authorization Code Grant.
Rate limiting improvements (Traffic optimization policy)	The policy can now be applied to: All consumers (Specified rate limit within a given time limit shared by all consumers) All registered consumers (Specified rate limit within a given time limit shared by all registered consumers) All non-registered consumers (Specified rate limit within a given time limit shared by all non-registered consumers) Each consumer Each registered consumer Each non-registered consumer Specified list of consumers (can allow consumer-specfic throttling or allow the given limit to each consumer)
Asset approval changes	Asset approval process is enhanced. As administrators, you can specify approvers in a team when creating or editing team details. The selected team approvers can view the pending requests of the assets that are associated with their respective teams and approve them.
Free Forever subscription	When you sign up for a webMethods.io API tenant, a 30-day Trial plan is assigned by default. You can then optionally upgrade to the Free Forever Edition, which does not have any expiry. The transactions quota in a Free Forever Edition is up to 10000 transactions per month.

Removed Items

Removed Item	Description
Transaction Alert settings under Administration > General Configuration, API usage details dashboard and API usage Report details under API Gateway Analytics dashboard are removed.	Alternatively, you can use webMethods Metering console to understand the transactions usage and quota.

Deprecated Items

Deprecated Item	Replacement, if any
The Custom Dashboard is deprecated and will be removed in future releases from API Gateway Analytics dashboard.	Alternatively, you can configure an external Elastic search destination and build your own dashboards using Kibana.
Webmethods IS policy is deprecated and will be removed in future releases from webMethods API Gateway Cloud instance.

Usage Notes

This section provides any additional information that you need, to work with webMethods.io API Gateway.

Software AG Cloud products are available in several geographical regions, operated by different infrastructure providers. Click here for information on the available products and also the underlying infrastructure provider in each region.
Information on major releases, hotfixes, and patch releases including the latest statistics on cloud environments availability, incident history, and planned maintenance events are available on the webMethods.io iPaaS Service Status page.

The following functionalities have certain restrictions in webMethods API Gateway instance on cloud:

API support
webSocket API is not supported.
Policy support
The following policies are not supported in a cloud instance as they are relevant only for an on premise deployment:
- Enable JMS/AMQP
- JMS/AMQP Routing
- JMS/AMQP Properties
- Authorize User
Policy Properties support
The following policy properties are not supported in API Cloud API Gateway instance:
- Audit Log, JDBC, Digital Events, and SNMP destinations are not available in the following policies:
  - Log Invocation
  - Monitor Performance
  - Monitor SLA
  - Traffic Optimization
- Kerberos Token Authentication property is not available in the Inbound Authentication - Transport policy
- The following properties are not available in the Inbound Authentication - Message policy:
  - Validate SAML Audience URL
  - Require SAML Token under Token Assertions
- The Run as user property is not available in the following policies:
  - Invoke webMethods IS Service
  - IS Service alias
  - Request Transformation
  - Response Transformation
  - Conditional Error Processing
- Administration support
  - Access URLs Tenants can access the API Cloud API Gateway instance (both the UI and runtime invocation) only using the URL provided by Software AG. This implies the following restrictions for the tenant:
    - Ports section is not available since they cannot be manipulated.
    - Load Balancer URLs section is not available since they cannot be manipulated.
- Cache configuration support is not available.
- Licensing support is not available
- Clustering configuration support is not available.
- Messaging is not available.
- Web services is not available.
- Master password management is not supported.
- Application logs section that contains configuring aggregation of logs is not supported.
- Destinations
  The following destinations have restrictions in API Cloud API Gateway instance:
  - Audit Log, Database, Digital Event Services (DES) and third party SNMP server are not available since they are relevant only for on premise cases.
  - API Portal settings are auto populated and disabled when API Portal is provisioned as part of the API Cloud.
  - For an Email destination, only templates can be configured since API Gateway Cloud instance has a predefined email server that cannot be changed.
- Settings
  - Outbound Proxy section is not available under General configuration as it is relevant only for an on premise deployment.
  - Kibana port cannot be updated as it is predefined and SAML SSO section is not available under the system settings section.
- Few Extended settings are not available.
- System Information in the About page is not included.
The Send Digital Events notification setting under Quota management is not available.
Analytics support
- Runtime event data cannot be archived or restored in API Cloud API Gateway instance.
- Cache statistics is not available.
- Application logs are not available.
Custom Import - JMS settings and JNDI settings is not available as they are not applicable for Cloud.
Connectivity
- Service development is not possible in API Gateway cloud, that is, Designer cannot be connected in API Cloud API Gateway instance.
- Integration Server console cannot be accessed. This means that all the configurations including logging is not available
- Reverse Invoke from an on premise instance is not supported.
- Paired gateway setup is not supported in a cloud instance. Advanced Edition is the default hosted solution.
Custom Dashboard is available only for paid tenants and is not supported for free trial tenants and free forever tenants.