30 Sep, 2024 – New Enhanced Debug and Early Data behaviors
- New Early Data (0-RTT) behavior supported for use with Akamai's products. For users that have recently visited a site and are resuming a connection, Early Data allows browsers to send data to a server in the first round trip of a connection, without waiting for the TLS handshake to complete.
- New Enhanced Debug behavior that debugs requests that go through Akamai servers. It includes all the functionality provided by the existing Pragma debugging, but is more secure and provides additional information.
Aug 28, 2024 – Read Timeout and Connect Timeout updates
Optimizations to the Read Timeout behavior, including new First Byte Timeout option. For new Ion properties, Property Manager no longer adds the Read Timeout and Connect Timeout behaviors to the Accelerate delivery rule by default.
Jun 17, 2024 - New Early Hints behavior
New Early Hints behavior supported for use with Akamai's Ion and Dynamic Site Accelerator products. With Early Hints, you can send an HTTP 103 status code with preliminary HTTP headers at the client request stage, so that a browser can preload critical website resources or preconnect to a specific domain while waiting for the final HTML response. You can configure this behavior in Property Manager or use EdgeWorkers to dynamically calculate the most optimal resources to send as Early Hints at the edge.
Apr 1, 2024 – Brotli Compression in General Availability
Brotli-on-the-Fly compression provides best-in-class solution with simplified architecture, compressing resources within the Akamai CDN in real-time. For more details, see Ion's tutorial on improving page load performance.
Mar 25, 2024 – Edge IP Binding support
Edge IP Binding lets you deliver traffic from a small, static set of IP addresses in a scalable manner. Among other things, it lets you incorporate zero-rated billing, so you can allow specific traffic at no cost to end users.
Feb 21, 2024 – Changes to the Offload Origin rule
Chase Redirects behavior has been removed from the Offload Origin rule. If you've selected NetStorage as your Origin Server, chase redirects are automatically enabled in backend to support its replication infrastructure.
Feb 19, 2024 – Akamai integration with Speculation Rules API
You can leverage Speculation Rules API to improve the performance of Multi Page Apps (MPA) by prefetching or prerendering future navigations. This API promises a nearly-instant load of URLs that you specify in a special JSON structure, along with other rules that define how and when to trigger each speculative loading type.
Jan 11, 2024 – Client Hints support
Client Hints is an effort by Google to replace the legacy User-Agent HTTP header. Rather than sending all information regarding the client in a single source, the host the client is accessing needs to request individual "client hints" information from the client's user agent (a browser).
Nov 7, 2023 – Origin IP ACL
Origin IP Access Control List (Origin IP ACL) offers some protection for your origin server by restricting traffic to Akamai-controlled IP addresses.