On December 22, 2016, CA released version 9.2 of the API Gateway. This release included several new features and enhancements, including:
Updated 3rd party product support
- Added CentOS 7 as supported platform for software form factor
- Virtual Appliance now deployable on ESXi 6
- Policy Manager now supports Windows 10
- JDBC Connection assertion enables connections to Oracle 12c
- Cassandra assertion supports Cassandra 3.x
- Gateway Azure image now supports Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployments
Technological enhancements for Gateway platform
- Update FIPS certified crypto library
- Additional support for TLS 1.2 as a default transport protocol and refreshed list of supported ciphers, to better support modern web browser security requirements
Usability enhancements for the Enterprise Service Manager (ESM)
- Support for migration of encapsulated assertions
- Support for migration of Siteminder (CA Single Sign On)
Gateway patching utility enhancements
- Added user control over how patch files are deleted from the Gateway after installation, including auto-deletion capability
- Better patch management, including better organization and patch status
Gateway Migration Utility (GMU) enhancements
- Full support for the migration of solution kits, using the GMU
- Users are able to migrate out services without dependencies
- MigrateIn support migration into any folder on the destination Gateway
- "Ignore" now supported as a default action
- Ability to list multiple entity types during mapping.
Enhancements to "Manage websockets" task
- Able to authenticate and authorize Websocket connections using new "connection policy" field
- New dynamic oubound URL supports context variables from the connection policy
- Support for websocket compression
- Adheres to new enhancements to TLS and cipher suite list
- Improved logging of connections
LDAP Query assertion support for additional use cases
- Retrieve individual LDAP user by DN, helps to avoid the need for extensive searches
- Greater search flexibility through support for configurable scope in an LDAP search
- Better support for empty attributes in an LDAP search result
For a complete list of new functionality and resolved issues, the 9.2 release notes are available at New Features and Enhancements - CA API Gateway - 9.2 - CA Technologies Documentation
- Aaron