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We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

Improvement Week: Enhancing Core Functionality and Expanding Global DNS Provider Support

We are pleased to announce expanded support for international DNS provider accounts, along with multiple feature enhancements and bug fixes, including Advanced Certificate Management and Upstream Request Rewrite.

✨ This Week's Updates ✨

Improvements

• Edge: We've optimized log sampling and event output logic to significantly enhance edge reliability during high-traffic and attack scenarios.

• DNS Provider: You can now seamlessly integrate with and are guided through the setup for the international sites of Alibaba Cloud, DNSPod, and Huawei Cloud.

• Advanced Certificate Management: Added a new feature to delete certificates, along with optimizations to the certificate list view and the certificate details page.

• HTTP Upstream Request Rewrite: The plugin now supports using variables to dynamically rewrite SNI and Host to the resource's origin domain, simplifying complex rewrite configurations.

• Log Explorer: Added edge-specific search conditions, making it faster and more convenient to retrieve logs from a particular edge node.

• Event Logs: Improved the logging and retrieval capabilities for all system events.

• UI/UX: Various improvements have been made to user interaction and guidance throughout the platform.

Bug Fixes

• Addressed several edge-side crashes to improve stability.

• Resolved an issue where certificate statuses were displaying incorrectly in the resource list.

• Fixed a bug that prevented rules from being saved in the HTTP Upstream Request Rewrite plugin.

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

Improvement Week: Enhancing the Usability of EIP, SSL Certificates, and Cache Sharding

We are pleased to announce that this week's updates focus on several key feature optimizations and bug fixes. We're also laying the groundwork for significant new features in the next phase.

✨ This Week's Updates ✨

New Features

• Edge Deployment: Edge deployments on non-mainstream cloud providers now support automatic collection and reporting of EIP addresses. In most cases, manual configuration is no longer required, although you can still manually modify them as needed.

Improvements

• Resources: The resource list now displays the validity status of the SSL certificate associated with a domain, providing a quick overview of certificate configurations.

• Cache Control Plugin: The cache sharding feature is now enabled by default to simplify configuration. We have also added new operational guidance to make it easier to configure caching for large files and streaming media.

• Dashboard: We've optimized the page display for several entity reports.

• UI/UX: Various improvements have been made to user interactions and operational guidance.

Bug Fixes

• Edge: Addressed known crashes, exceptions, and security vulnerabilities.

• Cache: Fixed a bug where cache duration settings would fail in a few specific scenarios.

• DNS Routing: Resolved several synchronization errors with DNS service providers.

• Fixed an issue where the tenant name was displayed incorrectly in alert emails.

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

✨ New Feature

• Upstream Authentication

The edge can automatically inject authentication credentials into upstream requests, reducing the risk of key leaks and improving operational efficiency.

🔧 Improvements

• DNS Routing

Enhanced integration with DNS providers and improved domain routing logic for a more natural workflow.

• Advanced Certificate Management

Achieved more automated certificate issuance and renewal by combining HTTP validation and DNS validation with DNS provider integration.

• Dashboards & Plugins

Optimized data analysis and visualization across multiple plugins.

• UI/UX

Clearer feature descriptions and more intuitive operation guidance.

🐞 Fixes

• Edge: Stability, crash, and security fixes.

• SSL/TLS Settings: Corrected HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect status codes.

• Cache Control: Fixed parameter issues in default caching rules.

• Advanced Certificate Management: Resolved wildcard certificate extraction failures on Windows.

• Request & Response Rewrite: Corrected wildcard rewrite logic when no matches were found.

• EIP Reference Lists: Fixed broken entity links.

• Dashboard Reports: Corrected display anomalies.

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

New Features

• HTML Rewriter: A new plugin that intercepts origin responses and easily rewrites HTML links.

Improvements

• Edge: Error messages for failed edge installations are now more specific.

• Content Compression Plugin: Adapted to handle origin compression behavior in some scenarios.

• Certificate Management Plugin: Fixed issues with certificate renewal failures and duplicate renewals in certain situations.

• Edge Probing plugin: The insights feature now includes detailed statistics for each probe type, providing more intuitive and comprehensive results.

• Resources: Removed proxy types to make resource definition simpler and clearer.

• UI/UX: Various information and interaction optimizations to make feature descriptions and operational guides clearer.

Fixes

• Edge: Known crashes, exceptions, and security fixes.

• Access Log Plugin: Fixed an issue where custom log formats were not working.

• Tenant Console: Resolved the problem of frequent "Network Error" messages.

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

New Features

• Edge Synthetic Response Plugin: Now able to directly generate and respond with content at the edge.

• Content Compression Plugin: Added new Brotli and Zstd compression algorithms. It can now automatically select the optimal compression method based on the request and compression configuration to increase speed and reduce bandwidth consumption.

Improvements

• Edge: Optimized default request headers for upstream requests and default response headers for responses.

• Policy Objects: Now allows for the creation of empty objects and optimizes how they are handled in policy rules.

• DNS Routing Plugin: Improved the DNS synchronization mechanism and optimized how existing records from DNS providers are handled.

• Advanced Certificate Management Plugin: Optimized the automatic application logic for subdomain certificates.

• Resource Tags: Now allows you to delete tags that are not referenced by rules but are still used by resources, providing more flexible deletion operations.

• Various UI/UX information and interaction optimizations.

Fixes

• Cache Control Plugin Insights: Fixed the issue with incorrect Cached Request count statistics.

• Advanced Certificate Management Plugin: Fixed the issue where the specified certificate matching policy did not take effect.

• SSL/TLS ACL Plugin: Fixed an issue where the minimum TLS version was not taking effect.

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

New Features

• Edge Probing Plugin：Added TCP connection probing strategy and the ability to customize HTTP probing requests.

• DNS Routing Plugin：Added a new DNS service provider ClouDNS.

Improvements

• Advanced Certificate Management Plugin：Added certificate name editing feature and the ability to manually delete expired and unreferenced certificates.

• AuthN & AuthZ Plugin：Added JWE decryption for the JWT authentication method.

• URL Redirect Plugin：Optimized configuration descriptions and improved the logic for handling requests that do not match a defined pattern.

• Response Header Rewrite Plugin：Optimized the user interface and configuration descriptions, and added three new ways to customize response headers.

• Bot Challenge Plugin：Optimized interaction and configuration descriptions for a more user-friendly experience.

• List：Optimized the default display items and order to improve information retrieval efficiency.

• Optimized other UI/UX issues.

Fixes

• Issue where the tenant dashboard failed to load on older system versions or browsers.

• Issue where the load balancing function exhibits abnormal selection behavior in sub-request scenarios.

• Inconsistent column widths in the list view.

• Known vulnerabilities and crash issues at the edge.

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

New Features

• Policy Plugin: The new GraphQL plugin ensures that GraphQL APIs are no longer a blind spot in your security posture.

Improvements

• Edge Reliability: Enhanced compatibility for edge installation and runtime processes.

• Edge Runtime Monitoring: improved edge response time colletion and data visualization.

• Edge Redeployment: A new guided process makes redeployment more efficient.

• Advanced Certificate Management Plugin: Optimized the display and interaction logic for certificate/order lists and added a detailed certificate view page.

• Caching Related Plugins: Optimized interactive components and configuration descriptions for a more user-friendly experience.

Fixes

• Fixed a memory leak issue on the edge.

• Fixed a bug in the DNS Routing Plugin where DNS rules could not be re-added after being deleted.

• Corrected the incorrect icon display for the Upstream Connection Control plugin.

• Resolved an issue where English content was mixed with some Chinese-language displays.

We will continue to improve AxisNow with weekly iterations to build an edge platform you'll love!

We are planning for a scheduled maintenance during that time.

Scope of Changes:

• Platform Console

• Platform Core Service

• Edge Software releases

• UI/UX Updates

New Features

• Authorization Plugin: Added new authentication methods: Basic Authentication and API Key Authentication.

Improvements

• Advanced Certificate Management Plugin: The certificate upload feature now supports ECC format certificates.

• Advanced Certificate Management Plugin: Added one new order error type.

• Insights: Optimized the preset conditions for log retrieval, making them easier to understand.

• Plugin Rule Conditions: Optimized the display order of attributes within conditions for more efficient operation.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where a single email address could be used by multiple users.

• Fixed the "no data" issue in the upstream service status code chart within the Resource Insights feature.

• Corrected the duplicate legend problem in the basic monitoring chart within the Edge Insights feature.

• Fixed the inconsistency between total request latency and the sum of sub-latencies in the Health Check Plugin Insights feature.

• Addressed the incorrect sorting of authentication methods in the Authorization Plugin list.