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Layer7 Office Hours - September 2022

By Bill Oakes
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI31

By Gregory Thompson
PI Planning for PI31 is now complete and development has kicked off. Below you will find the list of items that are included in this PI and a summary of the releases completed in the previous PI. As always, we invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items in order to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. Recent Releases: The following product versions were released during PI30: API Gateway 10.1 CR 2 -   Release Notes API Portal 5.1.1 (SaaS Only) - Release Notes PI31 Key Capabilities The sections below provide a ...
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Replay of June 2022 Office Hours

By Bill Oakes
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI30

By Gregory Thompson
PI Planning for PI30 is now complete and development has kicked off. Below you will find the list of items that are included in this PI and a summary of the releases completed in the previous PI. As always, we invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items in order to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. Recent Releases: The following product versions were released during PI29: API Gateway 10.0 CR 5 -   Release Notes OAuth Toolkit (OTK) 4.5.1 - Release Notes PI30 Key Capabilities The sections below provide a listing ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI29

By Gregory Thompson
PI 29 is now under way. Below you will find the list of items that are included in this PI and a summary of the releases completed in the previous PI. As always, we invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items in order to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. Recent Releases: The following product versions were released during PI28: API Gateway 10.1 CR 1 -   Release Notes API Portal 5.1 -   Release Notes OAuth Toolkit (OTK) 4.5 - Release Notes Mobile SDK 2.2 - Release Notes PI29 Key Capabilities The sections ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI28

By Gregory Thompson
The team has now moved into PI28 Below you will find the list of items that are included in this PI. As always, we invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items in order to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. Recent Releases: The following product versions were released during PI27: API Gateway 10.0 CR 4 - Release Notes API Portal 5.0.3 (SaaS) - Release Notes PI28 Key Capabilities The sections below provide a listing of the key capabilities being worked on across the Layer7 family of products. Note that some capabilities ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI27

By Gregory Thompson
PI26 is complete and we have now entered into PI27. During PI26, API Gateway 10.1 and API Portal 5.0.2 were released including many new capabilities and updates (click on the release links for the full release notes).  Below you will find the list of items that are included in PI27. As always, we invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. We would love feedback on both the current and future PI items in order to help us prioritize the items that will have the most benefit for our customers. The key capabilities currently being worked on in this PI (PI27) are: API Gateway Release of API Gateway 10.0 CR4 - this update will ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI26

By Gregory Thompson
As part of our effort to keep our customers up to date and get continuous feedback, we are continuing to provide updates on our development work in progress for each Program Increment (known as a "PI") here in the Layer7 Community. We invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. The key capabilities currently being worked on in this PI (PI26) are: API Gateway Release of API Gateway 10.1 - The next major release of the API Gateway will be v10.1 and it targeted for late July/early Aug. This release will include a number of underlying library updates such as JDK, Spring, Hibernate, CyprtoComply, and more. The release will also include ...
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Layer 7 Office hours

By Aran White
We are happy to announce the start of a new regular customer event for our Layer7 (API Management customer) Layer7 Office hours is no agenda session where customers and partners can ask questions in a virtual call where experts will be there to answer queries. As well as the Broadcom employees attending the session to answer the questions we are also keen to encourage the group to share their findings with each other. The first 3 sessions will be held on the following dates. February 18th March 18th April 15th We will be asking attendees to register for the event so please use the following link  https://symantec.broadcom.com/apim-office-hours-feb2021 ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI25

By Gregory Thompson
As part of our effort to keep our customers up to date and get continuous feedback, we will begin providing updates on our development work in progress for each Program Increment (known as a "PI") here in the Layer7 Community. We invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. The key capabilities currently being worked on in this PI (PI25) are: API Gateway Release of API Gateway 10.0 CR3 is currently planned for early March and will include TLS1.3, HSM Partition Key Support, Compressed Kerberos Tickets, and more. See the release notes for a complete list once CR3 is available: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-api-management/api-gateway/10-0/release-notes/new-features-and-enhancements.html  ...
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Layer7 Work in Progress Update - PI24

By Gregory Thompson
As part of our effort to keep our customers up to date and get continuous feedback, we will begin providing updates on our development work in progress for each Program Increment (known as a "PI") here in the Layer7 Community. We invite you to provide feedback by commenting on this post below. The key capabilities currently being worked on in this PI (PI24) are: API Gateway MySQL 8.0 backport for SSG DB for GW 9.4 (Only Software GW and Container) - allows customers to continue to use the software and container versions of API Gateway 9.4 with MySQL 8.0 to ensure a fully supported DB is available. Support kerberos authentication with compressed kerberos ...
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LAYER7 API DEVELOPER PORTAL 5.0 - Released

By Aran White
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As a part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we follow a regular, predictable release cadence to deliver updates and maintenance for our products. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the  Layer7 API Developer Portal 5.0 . This new release offers key enhancements to the product set in multiple areas, as outlined below:   Manage Policies with Gateway Bundles With the recently released Gateway Policy Plugin, policy authors can now create policies and ...
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Layer API Developer Portal 4.x Patch for API sync compatibility with API Gateway 10 CR1

By Joe Dascole
Layer7 API Developer Portal Date:    September 28th 2020   To:                   Layer7 API Developer Portal Customers From:               Layer7 Product Management team Subject:          Layer API Developer Portal 4.x Patch for API sync compatibility with API Gateway 10 CR1 For customers using the API Portal 4.x with the Layer7 API Gateway, a sync issue exists that renders some Portal-published APIs incompatible with API Gateway version 10 CR1. This sync issue is not applicable if you are using API Gateway version 10 base or 9.x. You can download and manually install an attached revised policy from Broadcom Support. See  KB 199747: Compatibility ...
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Courtesy Reminder for API Developer Portal 3.5 (Classic) End-of-Life Notice

By Joe Dascole
September 21, 2020   To:                Layer 7 API Developer Portal 3.5 (Classic) Customers From:           Layer 7 API Management Product Management team Subject:        Courtesy Reminder for API Developer Portal 3.5 (Classic) End-of-Life Notice Earlier this year, we announced the  end-of-life of Layer7 API Developer Portal v3.5 (Classic) . As we continue evolving the product portfolio to meet our customers' needs, we would like to remind you that the End-of-Life of Layer 7 API Developer Portal v 3.5 (Classic) is scheduled for  February 25th 2021 .   This End-of-Life announcement applies to the following production and non-production ...
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Layer7 API Developer Portal GA!

By Bill Oakes
Today we are excited to announce the availability of key new features in Layer7 API Developer Portal 4.5.2 . Our accelerated SaaS update cadence provides incremental value between major releases. This release includes several updates and fixes, as well as the launch of the next generation of our customizable developer console - the API Hub. API Hub - NEW Customizable Developer Console API Hub is a reference implementation of the Developer Console that lets you customize the developer experience for your API consumers. Use the standard API Hub included with the Portal to provide custom content and configure targeted look and feel changes - all directly ...
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June 2020 Communities Roadmap Session Now Available

By Bill Oakes
For those of you who were unable to make it today, the Layer7 Roadmap Session, exclusive to Communities, is now available for viewing  The Layer7 team covered the new Layer7 releases as well as the roadmap, and included a great demo of upcoming capabilities.  It's available now at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/6990711829421429507
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API Academy Certification Program

By Bill Oakes
A few weeks ago, the API Academy announced the API Academy certification program - the industry's first independent education and certification program for best practices in API strategy and design.  Personalized self-paced courses are available for API Designers (available now), API Security Architects (June), and API Product Managers (late summer), delivering proven best practices on demand.  Each course completed (and exam passed) delivers a certificate and badge.  We encourage you to share your certificate on LinkedIn to show your contacts your achievement!  Completion of all three courses delivers an API Academy Certified badge. Here's a brief overview ...
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Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Trial Version

By Joe Dascole
With the release of Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4  we are pleased to announce the availability of a trial version which can be downloaded here: Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Trial Download This serves as a standalone single user package with the Jetty server included. More details on deploying and using the Jetty package can be found in our documentation:  Install the Single-User Demonstration Package
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Layer7 Live API Creator 5.4 Released!

By Bill Oakes
The are pleased to announce that Layer7 Live API Creator v 5.4 is now available! Layer7 Live API Creator is a solution for creating APIs and Microservices to modernize application architectures, and to simplify an enterprise’s data and application integration tasks. Live API Creator’s API integration approach coupled with its low-code capabilities bring extreme speed and agility in the process of mediation/federation of data across disparate data sources.   The new v 5.4 release augments the existing product feature set with the following capabilities:   Java 11 Support : to run Layer7 Live API Creator using Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 11 Performance ...
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Upcoming webinar for API Testing/Monitoring with Layer7

By Bill Oakes
As you (the reader) well knows, full lifecycle API management has been the benchmark for API platforms for the last five years. With AI and ML moving to the forefront, full lifecycle API management is evolving to Continuous API management. This session will take a look at the advantages of continuous API management before examining how how realtime and synthetic API testing and API monitoring creates a better customer experience while reducing developer load. Please join us for this webinar Wednesday, May 6th, at 9am PST for this session and learn how to get more value out of your Layer7 platform.
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