Secure By Default continuous improvement:

• New frozen rule format available for PAPI users: v2023–05–30.
• Secure By Default – improvements and bug fixes.
• Performance and reliability improvements.

• The HTTP/3 behavior is in General Availability: You can now include this behavior to support secure HTTP/3 connections between requesting clients and the ​​Akamai​ edge. HTTP/3 keeps HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 concepts, but it moves away from the conventional transmission control protocol (TCP) transport layer. HTTP/3 uses the IETF QUIC protocol instead. It handles streams by itself which supports improved performance and a faster connection setup. For complete details, see the HTTP/3 documentation.
• The Global Request Number behavior has been updated to ensure that it only returns a single response header or sends a single request header forwards from the Akamai server that is initially contacted by the client. For complete details, see the Global Request Number documentation.

Hostname buckets are primarily intended for SaaS/PaaS providers who manage tens of thousands custom domain hostnames. This feature removes the current limit of 1,000 hostnames per property. With hostname buckets, you can:

Includes are small chunks of a property configuration that you can create, version, and activate independently from the rest of the property's rule tree. With includes, you can:

As the new user interface has been the default for the last several moths, the option to switch to the legacy Property Manager's user interface in ​Control Center​ will be disabled over the course of few next weeks. There's no action required on your part.

• New frozen rule format available for PAPI users: v2023–01–05.
• Property Manager user interface allows to select a rule format while creating new properties and editing property versions.
• New modifiedSince and modifiedNetwork parameters for the List properties and List includes operations in PAPI. Instead of fetching a complete list of properties or includes, which may generate a lot of unnecessary traffic, you can use these new parameters to only list properties or includes modified within a specified time range or on a selected network.

New frozen rule format available for PAPI users: v2022–10–18.

Akamai is performing a phased rollout update of the Property Manager user interface (UI). You will see the update over the course of the next few weeks. No action is required on your part to use the new UI.

New features: