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Generally available: Azure API Management - expanded support for Azure Policy definitions
Support for 11 policy definitions increases security of Azure API Management services and APIs that they expose.
Generally available: Azure API Management support for MSAL in developer portal
Enable a secure OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow when using Azure Active Directory or Azure Active Directory B2C identity providers.
June 2022
Generally available: API Management self-hosted gateway version 2
Support for OpenTelemetry and a new deployment option with Helm.
Generally available: API Management Content Security Policy and CORS configuration support
API Management Content Security Policy detects and mitigates common attacks in the developer portal and enables Captcha and OAuth in self-hosted portals.
Generally available: API Management reusable policy fragments
Organize policy components into reusable modules that can be inserted into any policy document.
Public preview: API Management authorizations
Simplify the process of managing authorization using APIs against backend services using OAuth2.
May 2022
Public preview: Synthetic GraphQL
You can now easily create a GraphQL API to support modern client application development.
General availability: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management
GraphQL APIs are considered to be more efficient, flexible, and powerful and have benefits such as faster performance, longer API call limit threshold, and lesser time retrieving data.
March 2022
Review your VNET configurations that may be affected by IP address changes
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
IP address changes will begin affecting your ability to manage your virtual network-enabled API Management services on 31 March 2023.
Public preview: Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management
You can now integrate to clients in a virtual network privately, using Azure Private Link support in API Management.
General availability: SOAP and XML request and response validation
Target availability: Q1 2022
Minimize API attack surface for SOAP or XML- based REST APIs with custom schemas in addition to the schemas specified in the API's definition.
February 2022
General availability: Developer portal widget for embedding custom HTML code
Use custom HTML code widget to extend developer portal's functionality.
January 2022
General availability: Azure API Management updates in January 2022
Regular API Management service updates for January 2022 with new features, bug fixes, and other improvements.
Public Preview: Managed Certificate support for Azure API Management
Secure your custom domains with a free certificate provisioned, managed, and automatically renewed by Azure API Management.
November 2021
General availability: Azure API Management updates- October 2021
Azure API Management is now available with new updates such as support for managed identity authentication for communication with Application Insights, ability to import Container App as an API and more.
General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration
General availability of Azure API Management to publish events in Event Grid.
General availability: Native support for WebSocket APIs
Native support for WebSocket APIs is now available across all pricing plans of Azure API Management except Consumption. This will help you manage WebSocket APIs along with REST APIs in Azure API Management.
Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management
GraphQL is increasingly seen as more efficient, flexible, and powerful way of working with APIs, as they have tremendous benefits such as faster performance, longer API call limit threshold, and lesser time retrieving data.
September 2021
General availability: Azure API Management updates - August 2021
The availability zones feature in Azure API Management has been updated to provide better support in four new regions, in addition to other API Management updates.
July 2021
Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration
Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid.
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