42Crunch Platform release, May 11, 2020

This 42Crunch Platform release brings more dashboards for monitoring the quality of your APIs, API Conformance Scan provides more details also on the issues a scan had to skip, and new organization administrators get permissions for all actions by default.

New features

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

Dashboards

We have added more dashboards that provide you at-a-glance information on your APIs:

  • Find quick statistics on all your APIs and their quality from Dashboards in the main menu of the platform. Toggle the chart views see different aspects.

  • Home in on the statistics from the APIs in a particular API collection in the collection dashboard.
  • Security dashboards continue to provide statistics from the API traffic to your protected APIs.

For more details, see API monitoring.

More details on skipped issues in Conformance Scan

The scan report now includes more details, such as the reason and the cURL of the sent request, on the checks that the scan had to skip. Like with other reported issues, just click on a skipped issue in the report to view the information.

For more details, see Scan report.

Organization administration permissions

We have simplified adding organization administrators to your organization. Now, new organization administrator accounts get all permissions by default, so you do not have to specify them separately. The permissions can be managed as usual after the new account has been created.

For more details, see Permissions.

Compatibility

This release is compatible with the following API Firewall images:

  • 42crunch/apifirewall:v0.16.11

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

When you switch the version of the API Firewall image, you must reconfigure any existing protection configurations so that they work with the new version. For more details, see Reconfigure API Protection.

Known issues

This release has the following known issues.

Existing APIs appearing as not valid or scanned in the new dashboards

Because the new dashboards do not yet have data on your existing APIs in 42Crunch Platform, these APIs appear as not being valid OpenAPI definitions and not being scanned. Once you re-run API Security Audit and Conformance Scan on your API, the dashboards are populated with the correct data and the APIs status is correctly shown.

Removing an API does not stop the API Firewall instance

If you delete an API from 42Crunch Platform and that API has an active API Firewall instance protecting it, API Firewall continues to run unless you specifically stop it. Same happens if the protection token that the API Firewall instance uses is deleted or otherwise becomes invalid.

This will be fixed in a future release.