Azure API Management updates- October 2020

A regular Azure API Management service update was started on October 21, 2020, and included the following new features, bug fixes, and changes, along with other improvements. 

New Features: 

• You can now create Developer, Basic, Standard, or Premium API Management services in the Brazil Southeast region.
• xml-to-json policy supports two new parameters for handling empty values and trimming string values.
• context.Request.Body and context.Response.Body support three new methods.
• Liquid templates in the <set-body> policy now support accessing JObject and JArray variables, for example: context.Variables.contoso.property or context.Variables.contosoarray[0].property.
• validate-jwt policy now supports JWE tokens compressed with the default algorithm.
• Network Status API now returns status for the Azure Active Directory endpoint.
• Named Values API now supports filtering by ID.

Details on all these new features, bug fixes, and other changes can be found here on Github.