42Crunch Platform release, November 15, 2019

This 42Crunch Platform release adds several improvements to API Conformance Scan.

Compatibility

This release is compatible with the following API Firewall images:

• 42crunch/apifirewall:v0.11.0

All previous image versions have been deprecated and are not compatible with this version of the platform.

New features

The following are the new features and improvements to the existing ones in this release.

Scan configuration wizard in Conformance Scan

Conformance Scan now has similar configuration wizard as API Protection:

• Separate steps for configuring different parts of the scan
• Easier to keep track of what you are configuring
• Summary screen to review the configuration you created before running the scan

For more details, see Scan API conformance.

Custom API endpoints for Conformance Scan

You can now point Conformance Scan to an API endpoint not defined in your OpenAPI definition.

For example, you might want to scan your API in your testing environment instead of the production environment defined in the API definition. In this case, you can enter the URL for the API in your testing environment as the API endpoint and point Conformance Scan to the correct environment.

For more details, see API endpoints.

Improved error descriptions in Conformance Scan

Sometimes scanning an API could be tricky, especially the more configuration is involved.

To make it easier to figure out why a scan failed, we have added clear descriptions of the processing errors that the scan encountered to the Conformance Scan status on the UI.

For more information and suggestions how to fix issues, see Errors in Conformance Scan.