Release Notes | Adaptive Governance

Improvement

• Standardization of Apigee environments. We aligned the behavior of Apigee API imports with the standard used by other native gateways, eliminating naming discrepancies between the contract and the manager and making the discovery process more intuitive.

Improvement

• Evolution of Smart Recommendations. We have enhanced Adaptive Governance's Smart Recommendations, which now consider the global context of the specification to generate more coherent fixes. The interface now displays details regarding the impact of changes, such as the total number of corrected violations, a summary of structural changes, and the projected API score. Additionally, recommendations now feature execution statuses (Success, Partial, or Error), indicating whether all improvements were applied or if it is necessary to resync the API to proceed.

Improvement

• Automated migration. We have implemented an automatic update process for customers migrating from Sensedia API Platform version 4.x to Sensedia API Management 5.x. Integrations that feed Adaptive Governance are now migrated seamlessly, preserving authentications, settings, and data history without the need for manual adjustments.

Improvement

• UI Modernization and Design System. Adaptive Governance now follows the new Sensedia Platform visual identity, with an interface aligned with our unified design system. This update provides greater visual consistency, improved usability, and integrated navigation between modules. The Workflows, Impact Analysis, and Attributes screens remain in the previous experience and will be updated soon.

Improvement

• Deployment Governance based on API contracts. We have implemented agnostic logic for importing environments directly from OpenAPI contracts (v2 and v3). Adaptive Governance now automatically identifies and displays deployment environments in the Deployments tab, using the URLs defined in the servers field (OpenAPI 3.0) or the host, basePath, and x-servers fields (Swagger 2.0). This enhancement simplifies tracking where APIs are published, regardless of the source gateway (Sensedia, AWS, Azure, Mulesoft, or Apigee).

• New support for AWS HTTP API Gateway (v2): Adaptive Governance now enables native import of APIs from AWS HTTP API Gateway (v2), making it possible to govern APIs optimized for performance and lower cost directly in the Multi-Gateway catalog.

Bug Fix

• Correction in the display order of months in the Maturity Timeline and Maturity by Month charts to ensure the correct chronological order.

Improvement

• The rules regarding the use of special characters in attribute editing have been revised, preventing duplication and respecting the restriction on identical names in the database. Old attributes remain as they are, but new attributes or edits must follow the new rules.

Improvement

• New permissions model in Adaptive Governance: The access management has been revised and integrated with the platform's Access Control. Now, you have more security and granularity, with specific permissions for each feature (such as Attributes, Dashboards, Policies, and Workflows).

New multi-gateway feature: Policy enforcement

• Introducing Policy Enforcement, a new feature that automates the application of governance policies for your APIs and generates compliance validation files. We'll be releasing policies in stages, starting with the one that ensures your Maturity Score.

Improvement

• We optimized the redundancy analysis process, which is now executed as a nightly routine, ensuring agility and avoiding system bottlenecks.

New multi-gateway feature: Detection of redundancies and overlaps between APIs

• We are announcing a new feature that automatically detects redundant or overlapping APIs based on OpenAPI contracts. By identifying redundancies, this feature helps with decisions to discontinue, consolidate, or improve APIs, making the architecture more efficient and organized.

Improvement

• In addition to Sensedia, AWS, Azure, and Mulesoft, Adaptive Governance now offers native integration with Apigee Gateway. With native integration, you can import APIs directly from Apigee using valid credentials, enabling centralized discovery and maturity analysis.

Improvement

• Adaptive Governance now supports documentation in AsyncAPI format.

Improvement

• We added the option for native integration with Mulesoft, allowing you to import APIs directly from the Mulesoft gateway into Adaptive Governance, using credentials. This allows you to use features like discovery and maturity analysis with APIs imported from Mulesoft.

Fix

• We resolved an issue with calls not being correctly accounted for in the impact analysis.

Fix

• We fixed an issue in the maturity validation that occurred when the version number in the basepath ended with a dot (".").

Improvement

• You can now configure native integration with Azure API Management and import APIs into Adaptive Governance directly from Azure, using credentials. This allows you to use features like discovery and maturity analysis with your Azure APIs.

Improvements

• We updated the BasePath compliance validation for "Interface Completeness" in API Platform versions 4.x. The basePath of the APIs is now defined dynamically, considering the value provided in the Version field of the API.

• We added the "Exception settings" button in Workflows, enabling quick restoration of previous versions already in production, bypassing stage and maturity requirements.

• We added an environment restriction rule ("Must not have") in workflow stages. This ensures that discontinued or restricted APIs in certain environments are automatically blocked from being deployed there.

Dashboards

• We made two additional Dashboards available:

  • APIs by maturity level: A pie chart in which each slice represents the number of APIs (latest revisions only) at each maturity level -- basic, intermediate, advanced, and excellent.
  • Maturity by month: displays the average (percentage) maturity level of the latest revisions of all APIs in the organization.

Fix

• We resolved an issue that caused a 500 error when attempting to access "Impact analysis" for an API belonging to a specific team workflow.

New Feature

• You now have Dashboards to monitor API maturity through charts consolidating quality metrics.

Improvement

• We improved usability by adding clear identifiers to indicate which features are exclusive to Sensedia gateways.

API Management 5.x

• We implemented the necessary changes for Adaptive Governance to support the structure of the new API Management version.

Improvement

• We further enhanced violation messages to help AI generate Smart Recommendations more effectively.

Improvement

• We made violation messages clearer and more detailed to improve Smart Recommendations.

Fix

• We fixed a validation issue that interfered with the maturity score calculation for APIs from a specific provider.

Fix

• We fixed a bug that incorrectly displayed violation messages in the maturity report details (Quality Analysis tab).

Improvements

• We added the "Select All" option in the API import journey from AWS, making it easier to select APIs for import.

• The maturity report now also displays the deployment environments of the APIs.

Launch

Adaptive Governance with multi-gateway support and Smart Recommendations.

Improvements

• We added pagination parameters (results per page and page number) to the URL of the Attributes screen. You can now retrieve a specific page of the attributes list via its URL.

• We enhanced the Attributes screen by making delete icons for attributes and tags (values) visible only for attributes not linked to any workflow and for tags not associated with any API.

• We updated the button label used to save changes made in the stage edit form to SAVE STAGE.

• Minor bug fixes.

Improvements

• Increased the limit of registered values per attribute to 200.

• Adjusted the error message displayed to users attempting to delete workflows and stages in use.

The Sensedia Adaptive Governance has a fresh new look!

You can now access Sensedia Adaptive Governance features through a dedicated interface.

In addition to the new interface, this release includes some improvements, such as:

• A new icon to indicate a custom interceptor in the Impact Analysis chart:

• It's now possible to specify the desired version when selecting an API on the Impact Analysis screen:

• You can now clone an existing Team Workflow, copying its settings to create a new one.