API Gateway and API Manager 7.7 September 2020 Release Notes

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Summary

API Gateway is available as a software installation or a virtualized deployment in Docker containers. API Manager is a licensed product running on top of API Gateway, and has the same deployment options as API Gateway.

The software installation is available on Linux. For more details on supported platforms for software installation, see System requirements.

Docker deployment is supported on Linux. For a summary of the system requirements for a Docker deployment, see Set up Docker environment.

New features and enhancements

The following new features and enhancements are available in this update.

API Manager Remote host updates

The Remote host capability in API Manager has been enhanced to provide the same powerful configuration options that can be found in Policy Studio. Take advantage of creating aliases for back-ends, and apply specific changes to control a connection without having to deploy the change via Policy Studio. To learn more, see Remote hosts.

Database integration updates

Validated support for the following versions of Oracle Databases:​

  • 12c Release 2 (Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1.0) - Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition)​
  • 18c (18.3)​
  • 19c (19.3)​

User membership in multiple organizations

API Manager now enables creating user membership in multiple organizations (multi-orgs). User accounts will have different roles in each organization the user is a member of.

The following are some important changes implemented to enable this new feature.

API version update

The multi-orgs feature is available with the 1.4 version of the API only, meaning that any third-party portals or integrations (for example, SSO) must be updated to use version 1.4. The API Manager UI uses the API 1.4 by default now.

This feature is forward compatible, the API 1.4 will work with single-org users, but not backward compatible, you cannot configure multi-orgs in the API 1.4, then revert it to the API 1.3.

The new API Manager 7.7 API 1.4 is available in OAS3 format on the Axway Documentation portal.

Managing multi-orgs users

The following are new changes implemented to facilitate the creation and maintenance of multi-orgs users in API Manager:

  • The API Administrator can now assign a user to more than one organization using the User API or the Application Developer’s Create and Edit user interface. For more information, see Manage users.

  • The ability for the Organization Administrator to manage users within its own organization has changed to avoid privileged escalation concerns. OrgAdmins can only edit or delete multi-orgs users from organizations where they are OrgAdmins. To learn more about these restrictions, see Organizations and user roles in API Manager.

  • Integration via SSO has changed to facilitate configuring users from an external IDP to multi-orgs. You can use the new setting, orgs2Role, to assign a user to multi-orgs. This attribute can be populated via:

    • A direct attribute in the IDP.
    • An LDAP mapping in the service-provider.xml file.
    • A filter configured in Policy Studio, which allows the orgs2Role setting to be overridden.

For more information on configuring multi-orgs users, see Configure API Manager Single Sign On.

Account changes

When a user account is configured to be a member of multi-orgs, it is automatically authenticated and associated with its primary organization, the first organization in their membership list. Using the drop-down menu, users can navigate between their organizations and the UI will display the options based on their role, which can be either orgAdmin or User.

When you delete the primary organization of a user, the user’s account is also deleted. For details, see Manage users.

Organization administrators can publish APIs

By default, Organization administrators require the approval of an API administrator to publish and unpublish APIs that were created in their organization without approval from an API Administrator. By setting the api.manager.orgadmin.selfservice.enabled system property to true, the OrgAdmin will no longer require approval, and will be able to directly publish and unpublish APIs.

YAML configuration store (Technical preview capability)

This work is an initiative born from collaborative customer hackathons to make the API Gateway configuration more CI/CD/DevOps and developer-friendly.​ It involved transforming the federated configuration into YAML fragments, which can be managed using standard DevOps tools, moving away from a propriety TeamDev approach to encourage the use of standard tools, source control, and DevOps tools that could be used to facilitate and encourage a better experience for collaboration.​

This initiative focuses on addressing:​

  • Fine-grained configuration for an improved collaborative development experience​.
  • Source code which is developer-friendly​.
  • Designed for improved DevOps capability.

The XML configuration store is still supported and is enabled as the primary configuration format. See YAML configuration Reference for known limitations.

We strongly encourage our customers to take a look and explore the possibilities of the new configuration format, and provide feedback to us on this experience. To learn more, see Axway API Management: DevOps friendly configuration capability.

To follow-up on what’s to come based on this capability, see API Management Roadmap.

Important changes

It is important, especially when upgrading from an earlier version, to be aware of the following changes in the behavior or operation of the product in this update.

OpenJDK JRE update to v8u265

API Gateway 7.7 and API Manager 7.7 support OpenJDK JRE, and this release includes Zulu OpenJDK v8u265.

The Zulu OpenJDK v8u265 changes the way API Gateway verifies wildcarded certificates. If the wildcarded domain is a top-level domain under which names can be registered, then a wildcard is not allowed. Matching approach has not changed for the second-level and lower-level domain names. In case you have certificates with wildcards characters in top-level domain you must recreate them with proper top-level domain names.

Examples of matching domain names:

SubjectAlternativeName [
 DNSName: *.com     // will match e.g. 'google.com'
 DNSName: *.*.com   // will match e.g. 'mail.google.com'
 DNSName: *         // no longer match 'abc'
 DNSName: abc.*     // no longer match 'abc.com'
 ]

Removed broken and risky algorithms from sFTP server

Broken and risky algorithms utilized in sFTP protocols exposed in all previous versions of API Gateway have been removed to mitigate possible attacks against those services. This means that any FTP client that uses any of the removed algorithms cannot connect to the sFTP server after this release.

The list of removed broken and risky algorithms is:

  • Ciphers: arcfour256, arcfour128, aes128-cbc, 3des-cbc, blowfish-cbc, aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc
  • Mac Algorithms: hmac-md5, hmac-sha1, hmac-sha1-96, hmac-md5-96
  • Key exchange: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1, diffie-hellman-group18-sha512, diffie-hellman-group17-sha512, diffie-hellman-group16-sha512, diffie-hellman-group15-sha512, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1, diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

The sFTP server currently supports:

  • Authentication Methods: Username/Password, Public Key
  • Ciphers: aes128-ctr, aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr
  • Mac Algorithms: hmac-sha2-512, hmac-sha2-256
  • Signatures: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256, ecdsa-sha2-nistp384, ecdsa-sha2-nistp521, ssh-rsa, ssh-dss
  • Key exchange: ecdh-sha2-nistp256, ecdh-sha2-nistp384, ecdh-sha2-nistp521, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
  • Compressions: none, zlib, zlib@openssh.com

Groovy v2.5.13

The Groovy version used by the Scripting Filter is updated from 2.4.8 to 2.5.13.

Filebeat v6.2.2

This update uses Filebeat v6.2.2. Before installing this update, you must delete the Filebeat folder /apigateway/tools/filebeat-5.2.0. When using Filebeat, follow the official Filebeat documentation.

OpenSSL and FIPS support

Running API Gateway in FIPS mode is not supported in API Gateway since the 7.7 March 2020 update, when OpenSSL was upgraded to OpenSSL 1.1.1, as OpenSSL 1.0.2 is EOL. OpenSSL 1.1.1 does not support FIPS. OpenSSL 3.0 (when available) will support FIPS.

Increased validation of WSDLs

The Xerces library has been updated to xerces 2.12.0. This library enforces stricter rules when validating malformed schemas and, in consequence, some WSDLs that were previously imported successfully by API Manager might not import successfully in this version.

To suppress schema validation errors and relax the stricter validation of XML files, set the flag -DwsdlImport.suppressSchemaValidationErrors to true in the policystudio.ini file. The default value is false.

API Gateway behavior

  • Anonymous cipher suites: The JRE included in API Gateway disables undesirable cipher suites when using SSL/TLS by default. Users using RSA Access Manager (formerly known as RSA ClearTrust) with API Gateway might experience SSL/TLS handshake issues where no common cipher suites can be found. In this case, you should reconfigure SSL/TLS of the RSA Access Manager to support stronger cipher suites.

    Alternatively, to re-enable the anonymous cipher suites in JRE for successful SSL/TLS connections with the RSA Access Manager, remove anon from the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms Java security property in the INSTALL_DIR/Linux.x86_64/jre/lib/security/java.security file.

  • Endpoint identification property: The JRE included in API Gateway enables endpoint identification algorithms for LDAPs (secure LDAP over TLS) by default to improve the robustness of the connections. This might cause API Gateway LDAP filters to fail to connect to an LDAP server. To disable endpoint identification add the <VMArg name="-Dcom.sun.jndi.ldap.object.disableEndpointIdentification=true"/> line to the INSTALL_DIR/system/conf/jvm.xml file.

  • Connect to URL Filter: If the Request Protocol Headers field in the Connect to URL filter is not configured correctly, a runtime exception (unexpected IO error) is thrown when the filter is executed. In earlier versions, this error did not appear in the logs.

API Manager behavior

  • Increased validation of /users endpoint: In earlier versions of API Manager, the /users API returns a list of all the users in an organization. This endpoint allowed a user to share an application with other users in their organization. This was identified as a security risk, as only Organization administrators and API administrators should have access to a list of users, and not user roles. The ability for user roles to view all other user names in the organization has been removed.

    To reduce the impact of this change, you can relax this restriction using a configuration flag. Set the flag in the jvm.xml file (it does not exist by default) under groups/group-x/ instance-y/conf.

    <ConfigurationFragment>
        <VMArg name="-DAPIGW_TOGGLE_FEATURE_GET_ALL_USERS=true" />
    </ConfigurationFragment>
    
  • Trailing slash property: An inbound API request with a trailing slash can match an API path with no trailing slash. To activate this feature set the Java property com.vordel.apimanager.uri.path.trailingSlash.preserve to true. The default value is false.

  • Content type property: An API method’s Content-Type is checked against the API method’s defined MIME type when performing path matching. To allow legacy API method matching and disable this check, set the Java property com.coreapireg.apimethod.contenttype.legacy to true. The default value is false.

  • Caching property: Enable caching to improve general system performance and speed. Set the com.axway.apimanager.api.data.cache Java system property to true. External clients, API keys, and OAuth credentials cache are optimized so that updates to the cache no longer block API Manager runtime traffic, resulting in performance improvements for corresponding API Manager APIs. As a result of the non-blocking cache updates, API Manager memory consumption will increase, particularly in systems with large numbers of external clients, API keys, or OAuth credentials.

  • No match property: To configure the status code of an unsuccessful match of an API to 404 when authentication is successful, set the Java property com.axway.apimanager.use404AuthSuccessNoMatch to true. The default value is false.

  • MIME types: To import API Gateway Management API Swagger into API Manager API Catalog, you must add the application/x-download MIME type to the default list of MIME types in API Gateway. Select Server Settings > General > Mime configuration in the Policy Studio tree and add application/x-download to the MIME list. After the configuration is deployed to API Gateway, you can import the API Gateway Manager API Swagger into API Manager API Catalog.

  • Confidential fields property: Fields that contain confidential information are no longer returned in some API calls. For example, a call to GET /api/portal/v1.3/proxies/ does not return the password in the AuthenticationProfile.parameters\["password"] field. For compatibility with earlier versions, you can continue to return confidential fields. Set the system property com.axway.apimanager.api.model.disable.confidential.fields to false in the jvm.xml file (it does not exist by default) under groups/group-x/instance-y/conf.

    <ConfigurationFragment>
        <VMArg name="-Dcom.axway.apimanager.api.model.disable.confidential.fields=false"/>
    </ConfigurationFragment>
    

Security

  • nosniff header: The X-Content-Type-Options HTTP header with value nosniff is not included in a HTTP response serving static content from the API Gateway or API Manager.Static contents are served from the API Gateway or API Manager webapps directory, which does not serve dynamic contents to avoid the risk of the browser making an incorrect assumption of the content type and exposing a security vulnerability. The X-Content-Type-Options response header with the value nosniff is included with HTTP responses serving dynamic content by default.

  • CSRF check property: If you are using the API Manager Management APIs, Client Application Registry APIs, and API Gateway APIs you might need to disable the CSRF token check implemented in v7.5.3 SP9 and later. To disable this check, set the Java system property com.axway.apimanager.csrf to false. The default is true.

  • Custom filters: If you have written a custom filter using the extension kit, you might need to update your custom code as a result of changes in the classes. The following interfaces deprecate _() and __() in favor of a new resolve() method:

    • com.vordel.client.manager.ResourceResolver
    • com.vordel.client.manager.attr.ScreenAttribute
    • com.vordel.client.manager.wizard.EntityContext

    Both DefaultGUIFilter and VordelWizard classes do not implement the ResourceResolver interface. As a result, any classes extending either of these must replace _() and __() method calls with resolve().

Deprecated features

As part of our software development life cycle we constantly review our API Management offering.

The following capabilities have been deprecated.

API Manager Rest APIs

API Management REST APIs, namely versions 1.1 and 1.2 are now marked as deprecated. API Manager REST APIs have been updated to version 1.4, but version 1.3 is still supported.

Swagger Support

As we are enhancing the capability of API Manager to support the latest versions of Swagger and OpenAPI, we are also deprecating Swagger version 1.1.

Antivirus scanners

API Gateway supports the industry standard Internet Content Adaption Protocol (ICAP), but the following embedded antivirus scanners will be removed from the November 2020 update:

  • McAfee
  • Sophos
  • Clam AV

Content scanning is still supported using the ICAP filter, which provides out-of-the-box integration with ICAP-capable servers provided by Symantec, McAfee, OPSWAT and others, promoting ease of deployment and operational control.

These items are still supported until removal, however we recommend to stop using them at your earliest convenience. Removal of deprecated items are planned for July 30, 2021.

Removed features

To stay current and align our offerings with customer demand and best practices, Axway might discontinue support for some capabilities. As part of this review, the following features have been removed:

Run update-apimanager.py script to upgrade API Manager

The script update-apimanager.py has been removed, but you still need to perform an update of the API Manager FED file. For more information, see Update API Manager.

Fixed issues

This version of API Gateway and API Manager includes:

  • Fixes from all 7.5.3, 7.6.2, and 7.7 service packs released prior to this version. For details of all the service pack fixes included, see the corresponding SP Readme attached to each service pack on Axway Support.
  • Fixes from all 7.7 updates released prior to this version. For details of all the update fixes included, see the corresponding release note for each 7.7 update.

Fixed security vulnerabilities

Internal ID Case ID Cve Identifier Description
RDAPI-20951 CVE-2020-14621 CVE-2020-14556 CVE-2019-17359 Issue: API Gateway included Zulu OpenJDK v8u242, which has a number of vulnerabilities including CVE-2020-14621. API Gateway included Bouncy Castle library version 1.60 which contained CVE-2019-17359 vulnerability. Resolution: API Gateway now includes Zulu OpenJDK v8u265 and Bouncy Castle library version 1.66 and is no longer vulnerable.
RDAPI-21314 01195064, 01187608, 01183015 Issue: API Manager uses JQuery version 3.4.1, which has a XSS vulnerability. Resolution: API Manager now uses JQuery version 3.5.1, which XSS vulnerability is resolved.
RDAPI-21699 01184311, 01184328 CVE-2019-17359 Issue: Aquascan reports security vulnerability CVE-2019-17359 due to bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar Resolution: bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar with security vulnerability CVE-2019-17359 is replaced by bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar that does not have the vulnerability.

Other fixed issues

Internal ID Case ID Description
RDAPI-17431 01090329 01092098 Issue: API Gateway Policy Studio and projdeploy script attempt to re-deploy configuration on error response from Admin Node Manager. Resolution: Policy Studio and projdeploy script attempt to deploy configuration only once as expected.
RDAPI-18128 01176343 01106018 01183936 01184266 01182781 01169424 01099988 01107786 01162018 01129468 01168438 01104274 Issue: In API Manager, updates of trusted certs for a virtualized API require restart of API Manager instance in order for changes to take effect Resolution: Fixed a race condition in API Manager configuration when APIs are configured with outbound policies.
RDAPI-18431 01105091 Issue: In API Manager 7.7, External Client IDs must be different to API Keys and OAuth Client IDs. In 7.5.3 they were allowed to be the same. This causes issues with some customers when migrating from 7.5.3. Resolution: External Client IDs can be the same to API Keys and OAuth Client IDs. Root cause that forced the decision to make them different has been solved.
RDAPI-19150 01136673 Issue: In API Manager, the Try It Dialog only showed a maximum of 10 API Keys as the store used to retrieve API Keys was a paginated store .Resoution: Updated the store used when retrieving API Keys to be a non paginated store so that all API Keys are retrieved.
RDAPI-19262 01138506 01095419 Issue: In API Manager in a multiple gateway environment, when a quota is defined for an API, the X-Rate-Limit header, present in the API responses, shows inconsistent values across the different nodes. Resolution: When defining a quota for an API in a multiple gateway environment, the X-Rate-Limit header behaves as expected.
RDAPI-20023 01156912 Issue: Use of TLS Server Name Indication (SNI) was only enabled when the option “verification of server’s certificate name match against server name” was enabled. Resolution: SNI and Server Certificate name check are now separated features. This separation also applies to SMTP protocol.
RDAPI-20526 01164755 Issue: Groovy 2.4.8 provided with API Gateway does not provide an option to deactivate escaping in JSON serialization. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-6975 for details. Resolution: Groovy has been updated to version 2.5.13 that provides such option.
RDAPI-20958 01122859 01132092 01133854 01064716 Issue: Changes to an Organization Name or Organization that an Application is associated with causes duplication in the API Manager Metrics reports. Resolution: API Manager Metrics reports now restrict report totals using the Organization name the Application is associated with.
RDAPI-21011 01174542 01181811 Issue: API Gateway Manager does not display KPS entries correctly. Resolution: Tables with long column names and entries are now rendered correctly in API Gateway Manager.
RDAPI-21060 01189348 01194083 01171842 Issue: An SQLException occurs for any query against a read-only KPS store backed by an RDBMS. Resolution: Fixed the broken query syntax, allowing SQL queries to be run.
RDAPI-21068 01169260 01168656 Issue: JSON redaction is slow when configured with a large number of paths to be redacted. Resolution: JSON redaction has been refactored to parse inbound document more efficiently and reduce the number of path matching performed.
RDAPI-21085 01160271 01143897 01153011 01160321 01160146 Issue: API Manager was creating sessions incorrectly resulting in possible authentication issues during high traffic. Resolution: API Manager now only creates a session upon successful login.
RDAPI-21184 01174950 01172806 Issue: Custom Properties are not shown in the Swagger definition of an API. Resolution: Custom Properties are now included in the API Swagger definition.
RDAPI-21221 01185235 01184668 01177860 01192587 Issue: LDAP connection test fails when using a node manager configuration in Policy Studio, due to absence of an environmentalisation configuration. Resolution: Updated the connection test to only check for environmentalised fields if environmentalisation is supported. Added a warning dialog when the ‘Allow environmentalization of fields’ option is tuned on, but currently open configuration does not support it.
RDAPI-21234 01179001 Issue: API Manager Metrics Date interval behaviour is unclear. Resolution: Added additional information about the Date interval behavior to the documentation.
RDAPI-21291 01170263 01182236 Issue: When a CORS Profile is configured in Policy Studio and applied to nested paths, CORS response headers appear duplicated as the gateway processes CORS for each path in the tree. Resolution: When a CORS Profile is configured in Policy Studio and applied to nested paths, API Gateway processes CORS only for the relevant path.
RDAPI-21300 01182381 Issue: Use of “%b” or “%B” in Transaction Access Log format can generate errors that exhaust connection pool. Resolution: The use of “%b” or “%B” no longer requires response to be buffered. Enforcement has been made on HTTP transactions to ensure resources are released.
RDAPI-21366 01180384 Issue: Incorrect “productname” option documented for the update-apimanager script. Resolution: Updated documentation to refer to the correct “product” option.
RDAPI-21403 01184844 01182236 01184347 01186338 Issue: When a CORS Profile is configured in Policy Studio, CORS request headers (Origin, Access-Control-Request-Method, etc.) are passed to back-end servers, leading to duplication of the CORS response headers. Resolution: When a CORS Profile is configured in Policy Studio, CORS request headers are saved in the message attribute ${http.cors.headers}, then removed from the input headers so they don’t trigger CORS processing in back-end servers.
RDAPI-21418 01183534 Issue: crash occurs when importing PKCS12 (or PFX) file not containing private key. Resolution: PKCS12 decryption has been corrected to handle those files.
RDAPI-21425 01193196 01184844 01184845 01185638 01184347 01186338 Issue: OPTIONS requests are automatically processed and returned by API Gateway without executing any policy, even if no CORS profile has been configured, preventing the call to other back-end servers. Resolution: If no CORS profile has been configured, OPTIONS requests will not trigger the CORS processing in the Gateway, so requests can be forwarded to back-end servers.
RDAPI-21433 01189832 01189522 01189274 01189261 01185424 01184347 Issue: API Manager duplicates HTTP outbound headers, which are defined in the Swagger of an API. Resolution: API Manager correctly passes HTTP outbound headers to the back-end system.
RDAPI-21482 01187410 Issue: Empty JSON Body due to JSON Remove Node removing the only node causes Exception. Resolution: Successfully parsed JSON body no longer throws Exception when writing content.
RDAPI-21483 01187661 01187906 01188834 Issue: Compare Attribute filter fix RDAPI-20017 causes breaking changes for existing customers Resolution: RDAPI-20017 is reverted to remove breaking changes and will be analyzed further.
RDAPI-21505 01187335 Issue: In a multi-node setup, API Manager does not notify all instances of remote host configuration changes Resolution: Remote host configuration changes are now broadcasted across all instances so that configuration changes can take effect.
RDAPI-20923 01198145 01172404 01184847 01190517 Issue: Application pagination was not behaving as expected Resolution: Application pagination now behaves correctly.

Known issues

The following are known issues for this update.

Internal ID Description
RDAPI-15981 Scopes fields for API Key remain visible even if Application Scopes are disabled
RDAPI-16486 Changes in the mapper always require a reload in the Execute Data Maps filter and once reloaded then providing values for the required parameters must be repeated
RDAPI-16778 Doc update, recommendations for Cassandra storage
RDAPI-17282 Connector for Salesforce APIs in API Manager doesn’t work or is impossible to configure
RDAPI-18198 CORS preflight fails for WSDL based API Manager APIs, thus Try-It fails
RDAPI-18332 “Try-it” for API-Method is not working
RDAPI-18523 Inconsistent application search behaviour relating to application sharing
RDAPI-18674 Insufficient data validation when importing an Application
RDAPI-18986 projpack is unable to merge projects after projupgrade; likely due to Default APIManager policies
RDAPI-18990 Failed to delete undefined" pop-up pops up unexpectedly when attempting to delete application
RDAPI-19006 Delete API “not found” after changing Application Org
RDAPI-19132 Issue with selection of Retirement date when deprecating API
RDAPI-19240 Users in “pending approval” state are visible in the Sharing tab
RDAPI-19278 API access removed from app during org migration
RDAPI-19292 When an APIM admin user’s login name is changed, the user is directed to a blank page
RDAPI-19293 API Catalog Try It shows only the first security device of a security profile
RDAPI-19333 Grant API access removed from API Access list in application when FE unpublished
RDAPI-19354 Issue with backend API import regarding Duplicate parameters value
RDAPI-19433 Line breaks in outbound parameter (type header) value not escaped
RDAPI-19442 Saving Mode Stuck for the Application Creation in different session
RDAPI-19453 Uploading an invalid image type when creating an Application leads to an internal server error
RDAPI-19580 Trial option in the Organization does not work
RDAPI-19586 “Retired API appears as “published” in Catalog
RDAPI-19601 Sharing section of Application issue when Organization of application changed
RDAPI-19788 Issue with pagination across multiple sections
RDAPI-19971 nodemanager pid file is created with permissions that are too restrictive
RDAPI-20255 Application Quota not promoted by apimanger promote
RDAPI-20428 Adding a routing policy to a Studio-defined API produces an EntityStoreException
RDAPI-20480 swagger enum query parameters not validated
RDAPI-20550 renaming existing KPS collection in PS breaks ES store
RDAPI-20594 When a token is revoked with an incorrect Authorization header, the response is 400 instead of 401
RDAPI-20726 How to get attribute value for apimgmt.application.id
RDAPI-20740 Unable to environmentalize format in Transaction Access Log
RDAPI-20793 Resource Path is duplicated in API Manager for Swagger 1.2
RDAPI-20829 API deployment : restrict grant only to specified organizations
RDAPI-20919 Add timeout type/origin in trace messages
RDAPI-20924 OAS Defect: APIm doesn’t support empty value params
RDAPI-20928 Parameter types differ in Backend API and In TryIt
RDAPI-21009 Issue after updating API Manager settings through rest api if lockUserAccount is missing
RDAPI-21030 API Manager ignores dont.expect.100.continue flag if the Outbound Security is HTTP Basic
RDAPI-21061 Updated error message, OAS3 file import without servers section url
RDAPI-21113 “URLDecoder: Incomplete trailing escape (%) pattern” only when virtualized API uses Outbound authentication
RDAPI-21171 Minor UI issue affecting pagination in API keys and Oauth client credentials
RDAPI-21211 APIM doesn’t support SOAP 1.1 Binding for MTOM 1.0
RDAPI-21263 “Import from topology” prefers non-SSL ports of Studio-created APIs
RDAPI-21295 XSD files are not downloaded when Use client registry is enabled
RDAPI-21332 Cassandra 2.2.12 Vulnerabilities from latest scan
RDAPI-21384 Webservice (WSDL-based) responds with 500 instead of 405 when an invalid HTTP method is used
RDAPI-21411 Inconsistent treatment of multiple scopes in Oauth request
RDAPI-21423 Quota values getting re-initialized just after clicking quota text box
RDAPI-21434 “Expect to Retrieve X rows” setting on database query filter
RDAPI-21436 long deployment time when lot of APIs are virtualized in API Manager
RDAPI-21444 Policy Studio can’t delete or edit scripts
RDAPI-21456 Application export doesn’t include external credential
RDAPI-21469 kpsadmin returns inconsistent status codes, making it hard to script
RDAPI-21506 APIM cannot import Swagger with externalDocs (NPE)
RDAPI-21557 API gateway sends 100 continue when backend fails to respond in time
RDAPI-21619 API Manager remote hosts not synchronized between instances (issue not fully resolved)
RDAPI-21679 Amazon SQS Poller - visibility setting lacks units in Policy Studio
RDAPI-21681 Swagger API blob not updated after updated API import
RDAPI-21689 [ELI] HTTP 500 when accessing user profile
RDAPI-21697 problems with recent change to multipart form-data RDAPI-20461
RDAPI-21738 Issue in sysupgarde apply - Import failed for table
RDAPI-21784 Redaction not working when Content-Type is multipart/form-data and form-field is a file
RDAPI-21801 Spaces in query-string parameters which are encoded as ‘%20’ on the inbound request, are changed to be encoded with ‘+’ during the transaction
RDAPI-21984 Groovy’s java.util.Date does not work in scripts due to Groovy version update from 2.4.8 to 2.5.13.

Policy Studio help documentation

This update includes changes to the Policy Studio documentation, but the version of the documentation (Eclipse Help) shipped with Policy Studio is out of sync with the online documentation and does not include these changes.

We are working to rectify this issue in a future update. In the meantime, you can find the up to date documentation online at Develop in Policy Studio.

Update a classic (non-container) deployment

These instructions apply to API Gateway and API Manager classic deployments only. For container deployments, see Update a container deployment.

Prerequisites

This update has the following prerequisites in addition to the System requirements.

  1. Shut down any Node Manager or API Gateway instances on your existing installation.

  2. Back up your existing installation. You can use the update_apigw.sh script to take a backup of your entire API Gateway installation directory as detailed in the API Gateway server install steps, or you can manage your own backups as detailed in API Gateway backup and disaster recovery. Ensure that you back up any customized files. You should merge updated files instead of copying them back directly to avoid any regex matching issues, whether you manage your own backups or not. For example, the following directories might contain customized files:

    webapps/apiportal/vordel/apiportal
    webapps/emc/vordel/manager/app
    webapps/emc
    system/conf/apiportal/email
    system/conf
    samples/scripts/
    tools/filebeat-VERSION-PLATFORM
    
  3. If you have an existing Apache Cassandra installation, ensure that you back up your data (Cassandra and kpsadmin), and that the JAVA_HOME variable is set correctly in cassandra.in.sh and cassandra.in.bat.

  4. Remove the old Filebeat folder /apigateway/tools/filebeat-5.2.0. Check any customized files to see if they are compatible with the new version. See Filebeat for more information.

  5. On Linux, remove existing capabilities on product binaries (which might prevent overwriting files):

    setcap -r INSTALL_DIR/apigateway/platform/bin/vshell
    

FIPS mode only

If FIPS mode is enabled, you must also perform the following steps to install the update:

  1. Run togglefips --disable to turn FIPS mode off.
  2. Start the Node Manager to move the JARs.
  3. Stop the Node Manager.
  4. Install the API Gateway update as described in the Installation section.
  5. Start the Node Manager.

In Policy Studio, If FIPS mode is enabled, you must also perform the following steps to install the update:

  1. Open Policy Studio and select Window > Preferences.
  2. Select the FIPS Mode setting.
  3. Deselect the Enable FIPS Mode in Axway Policy Studio option and click OK.
  4. Restart Policy Studio using the policystudio -clean command.

In Configuration Studio, If FIPS mode is enabled, you must also perform the following steps to install the update:

  1. Open Configuration Studio and select Window > Preferences.
  2. Select the FIPS Mode setting.
  3. Deselect the Enable FIPS Mode in Axway Configuration Studio option and click OK.
  4. Restart Configuration Studio using the configurationstudio -clean command.

Installation

This section describes how to install the update on existing 7.7 installations of API Gateway or API Manager.

  • If you have installed an existing version of API Manager, installing the API Gateway server update automatically also installs the updates and fixes for API Manager.
  • If you have installed a licensed version of API Gateway or API Manager 7.7, you do not require a new license to install updates.

Install the API Gateway server update

To install the update on your existing API Gateway 7.7 server installation, perform the following steps:

  1. Ensure that your existing API Gateway instance and Node Manager have been stopped.

  2. Remove any previous patches from your INSTALL_DIR/ext/lib and INSTALL_DIR/META-INF directories (or the ext/lib directory in an API Gateway instance). These patches have already been included in this update. You do not need to copy patches from a previous version.

  3. Download and unpack the API Gateway 7.7 server Update file into a new directory. For example:

    mkdir 77update
    tar -xzvf APIGateway_7.7.YYYYMMDD_Core_linux-x86-64_BNnn.tar.gz -C 77update
    
  4. Run the update_apigw.sh script from the directory into which you extracted the Update file (for example, 77update) and specify your API Gateway installation directory using the --install_dir option. For example:

    ./update_apigw.sh --install_dir /opt/Axway-7.7/
    
  5. Restart your Node Manager and API Gateway instances on the local machine.

update_apigw.sh script

Run the update_apigw.sh script with the --help option to see the available options:

./update_apigw.sh --help

The script generates a trace file in the update-output/trace directory. Use the --tracelevel option to change the level of tracing.

The script takes a backup of your entire API Gateway installation directory and places it in a tar file in the update-output/backups directory. Specify a different directory using the --backup_dir option. To manage your own backups, use the --no_backup option.

To run the script without user interaction, specify --mode unattended option.

Running the update_apigw.sh script performs the following steps:

  1. Check that the installation directory is valid.
  2. Check that the user who owns the API Gateway binaries is the same user running the update_apigw.sh script.
  3. Check that the Node Manager and API Gateway instances that run on the local machine are not running.
  4. Take a backup unless --no_backup has been specified.
  5. Install the update content into the API Gateway installation directory.
  6. Perform all of the steps that were performed by a post installation script in earlier updates. This includes JRE cleanup, system/lib/modules cleanup, third-party and Axway JAR cleanup, apply acl.json fix, apply passphrase obfuscation fix, and apply modifications to Node Manager entity store configuration. Fixes are only applied if they have not previously been applied.

Install the Policy Studio update

To install the update on your existing Policy Studio installation, an update script is provided. The update script is located inside the API Gateway 7.7 Policy Studio Update pack (for example, APIGateway_7.7.YYYYMMDD_PolicyStudio_linux-x86-64_BNnn.tar.gz).

Download and unpack the API Gateway 7.7 Policy Studio Update file into a new directory. For example:

mkdir 77update
tar -xzvf APIGateway_7.7.YYYYMMDD_PolicyStudio_linux-x86-64_BNnn.tar.gz -C 77update

Run the update_policy_studio.sh script from the directory into which you extracted the Update file (for example, 77update) and specify your API Gateway installation directory as an argument:

./update_policy_studio.sh INSTALL_DIR

INSTALL_DIR is the base API Gateway 7.7 installation directory that contains the policystudio directory.

For example:

./update_policy_studio.sh /opt/Axway-7.7/

If you had applied any modifications to the policystudio.ini file, you must reapply them after upgrade.

Running this script performs the following steps:

  1. Back up your existing INSTALL_DIR/policystudio directory.
  2. Remove old JRE versions by deleting the INSTALL_DIR/policystudio/jre directory.
  3. Unzip and extract API Gateway 7.7 Policy Studio Update over the policystudio directory in your existing API Gateway 7.7 installation directory.
  4. Start Policy Studio with policystudio -clean.

A backup of the installation is created at INSTALL_DIR/backups/policystudio/<date_time>.

Install the Configuration Studio update

To install the update on your existing Configuration Studio installation, an update script is provided. The update script is located inside the API Gateway 7.7 Configuration Studio Update pack (for example, APIGateway_7.7.YYYYMMDD_ConfigurationStudio_linux-x86-64_BNnn.tar.gz).

Download and unpack the API Gateway 7.7 Configuration Studio Update file into a new directory. For example:

mkdir 77update
tar -xzvf APIGateway_7.7.YYYYMMDD_ConfigurationStudio_linux-x86-64_BNnn.tar.gz -C 77update

Run the update_configuration_studio.sh script from the directory into which you extracted the Update file (for example, 77update) and specify your API Gateway installation directory as an argument:

./update_configuration_studio.sh INSTALL_DIR

INSTALL_DIR is the base API Gateway 7.7 installation directory that contains the configurationstudio directory.

For example:

./update_configuration_studio.sh /opt/Axway-7.7/

If you had applied any modifications to the configurationstudio.ini file, you must reapply them after upgrade.

Running this script performs the following steps:

  1. Back up your existing INSTALL_DIR/configurationstudio directory.
  2. Remove old JRE versions by deleting the INSTALL_DIR/configurationstudio/jre directory.
  3. Unzip and extract API Gateway 7.7 Configuration Studio Update over the configurationstudio directory in your existing API Gateway 7.7 installation directory.
  4. Start Configuration Studio with configurationstudio -clean

A backup of the installation is created at INSTALL_DIR/backups/configurationstudio/<date_time>.

Install the API Gateway Analytics update

To install the update on your existing API Gateway Analytics 7.7 installation, perform the following steps:

  1. Ensure that your existing API Gateway Analytics instance and Node Manager have been stopped.

  2. Remove old third-party libraries by deleting the following directories:

    INSTALL_DIR/analytics/system/lib/modules
    
  3. Remove old JRE versions by deleting the following directories:

    INSTALL_DIR/analytics/platform/jre
    
  4. Verify the owners of API Gateway binaries before extracting the update.

    ls -l INSTALL_DIR/analytics/posix/bin
    
  5. Using the same user who owns the API Gateway Analytics binaries, unzip and extract API Gateway 7.7 Analytics Update over the analytics directory in your existing API Gateway 7.7 installation directory. For example:

    tar -xzvf APIGateway_7.7.YYYYMMDD_Analytics_linux-x86-64_BNnn.tar.gz -C /opt/Axway-7.7/analytics/
    
  6. Change to the analytics directory in your installation:

    cd INSTALL_DIR/analytics
    
  7. Run the post-install script for API Gateway Analytics.

    apigw_analytics_sp_post_install.sh
    

You must also install an update for your existing API Gateway 7.7 server.

After installation

The following steps apply after installing the update.

Allow an unprivileged user to run API Gateway

To allow an unprivileged user to run the API Gateway on a Linux system, perform the following steps:

  1. Add the following line to the INSTALL_DIR/system/conf/jvm.xml file:

    <VMArg name="-Djava.library.path=$VDISTDIR/$DISTRIBUTION/jre/lib/amd64/server:$VDISTDIR/$DISTRIBUTION/jre/lib/amd64:$VDISTDIR/$DISTRIBUTION/lib/engines:$VDISTDIR/ext/$DISTRIBUTION/lib:$VDISTDIR/ext/lib:$VDISTDIR/$DISTRIBUTION/jre/lib:system/lib:$VDISTDIR/$DISTRIBUTION/lib"/>
    
  2. Run the command setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep cap_sys_rawio=+ep' INSTALL_DIR/platform/bin/vshell to allow the API Gateway to listen on privileged ports.

Update API Manager

For more information on how to update API Manager, see Update API Manager.

Update a container deployment

Any custom fed files deployed to a container must be upgraded using upgradeconfig or projupgrade. They must be upgraded the same way, regardless of whether they are API Manager enabled or not.

The fed now contains the updates for the API Manager configuration and can be used to build containers.

Documentation

This section describes documentation enhancements and related documentation.

Documentation enhancements

The following new instructions and enhancements are available in the documentation.

API Management open source documentation

The latest version of API Gateway, API Manager, and API Portal documentation has been migrated to Markdown format and is available in a public GitHub repository to prepare for future collaboration using an open source model. As part of this migration, the documentation has been restructured to help users navigate the content and find the information they are looking for more easily.

Documentation change history is now stored in GitHub. To see details of changes on any page, click the link in the Last modified section at the bottom of the page.

To find all available documentation for this product version:

  1. Go to Manuals on the Axway Documentation portal.
  2. In the left pane Filters list, select your product or product version.

Customers with active support contracts need to log in to access restricted content.

The following reference documents are also available:

  • Supported Platforms - Lists the different operating systems, databases, browsers, and thick client platforms supported by each Axway product.
  • Interoperability Matrix - Provides product version and interoperability information for Axway products.

Support services

The Axway Global Support team provides worldwide 24 x 7 support for customers with active support agreements.

Email support@axway.com or visit Axway Support.

See Get help with API Gateway for the information that you should be prepared to provide when you contact Axway Support.