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August 2022

17 Aug

Generally available: Azure API Management - expanded support for Azure Policy definitions

NOW AVAILABLE

Support for 11 policy definitions increases security of Azure API Management services and APIs that they expose.

  • API Management
  • Features
17 Aug

Generally available: Azure API Management support for MSAL in developer portal

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable a secure OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow when using Azure Active Directory or Azure Active Directory B2C identity providers.

  • API Management
  • Features

June 2022

22 Jun

Generally available: API Management self-hosted gateway version 2

NOW AVAILABLE

Support for OpenTelemetry and a new deployment option with Helm.

  • API Management
  • Features
22 Jun

Generally available: API Management Content Security Policy and CORS configuration support

NOW AVAILABLE

API Management Content Security Policy detects and mitigates common attacks in the developer portal and enables Captcha and OAuth in self-hosted portals.

  • API Management
  • Features
8 Jun

Generally available: API Management reusable policy fragments

NOW AVAILABLE

Organise policy components into reusable modules that can be inserted into any policy document.

  • API Management
  • Features
8 Jun

Public preview: API Management authorisations

IN PREVIEW

Simplify the process of managing authorisation using APIs against backend services using OAuth2.

  • API Management
  • Features

May 2022

24 May

Public preview: Synthetic GraphQL

IN PREVIEW

You can now easily create a GraphQL API to support modern client application development.

  • API Management
  • Microsoft Build
24 May

General availability: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • API Management
  • Microsoft Build

March 2022

22 Mar

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.

  • API Management
  • Retirements
16 Mar

Public preview: Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management

IN PREVIEW

You can now integrate to clients in a virtual network privately, using Azure Private Link support in API Management.

  • API Management
  • Services
7 Mar

General availability: SOAP and XML request and response validation

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • API Management
  • Services

February 2022

16 Feb

General availability: Developer portal widget for embedding custom HTML code

NOW AVAILABLE

Use custom HTML code widget to extend developer portal's functionality.

  • API Management
  • Services

January 2022

27 Jan

General availability: Azure API Management updates in January 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

Regular API Management service updates for January 2022 with new features, bug fixes, and other improvements.

  • API Management
  • Services
20 Jan

Public Preview: Managed Certificate support for Azure API Management

IN PREVIEW

Secure your custom domains with a free certificate provisioned, managed, and automatically renewed by Azure API Management.

  • API Management
  • Services

November 2021

16 Nov

General availability: Azure API Management updates- October 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • API Management
  • Services
  • Features
2 Nov

General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration

General availability of Azure API Management to publish events in Event Grid.

  • API Management
  • Event Grid
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
2 Nov

General availability: Native support for WebSocket APIs

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • API Management
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Services
2 Nov

Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • API Management
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

September 2021

1 Sep

General availability: Azure API Management updates - August 2021

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • API Management
  • Services
  • Features

July 2021

14 Jul

Public preview: API Management and Event Grid integration

IN PREVIEW

Azure API Management has now been updated to publish events to Event Grid.

  • Event Grid
  • API Management
  • Services

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