Hello, Apigee community! We’re excited to wrap up the last two months of releases with updates spanning AI enablement, security, and enhanced platform visibility. Here is the latest roundup of what’s new in Apigee. 
Apigee X / Hybrid: New releases
Apigee Operator for Kubernetes Integration for Generative AI Workloads
ApigeeBackendService for the Apigee Operator for Kubernetes (GA)
The ApigeeBackendService resource is now Generally Available (GA). This enables deep integration with the GKE Inference Gateway, allowing GKE users to leverage Apigee’s full suite of features to manage and monetize their Generative AI workloads through APIs.
Policies for LLM/GenAI Workloads in Apigee hybrid
The following Apigee policies supporting LLM/GenAI workloads are now supported in Apigee hybrid:
- SemanticCacheLookup policy
- SemanticCachePopulate policy
- SanitizeUserPrompt
- SanitizeModelResponse
The Semantic Caching and Model Armor policies are now supported in Apigee hybrid. They enable intelligent response reuse to minimize latency and operational costs and help mitigate risks like prompt injection. This release also introduces URL templating support for semantic caching policies.
New Capabilities in Apigee X
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Introduction of the target.evaluated.url flow variable: A new flow variable, target.evaluated.url, has been introduced. Use this variable instead of target.url when the target URL is dynamically constructed based on user input, enhancing control and security.
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Support for API-product scoped quotas: You can now set quotas at the API Product level to limit the total requests all proxies within that product can process, providing a simpler, product-centric approach to rate limiting.
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Configuring the quota policy to use API product quota settings
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Enhanced Validation for API products: Heightened validation logic now explicitly verifies proxy and environment resources against your organization when creating and updating API products, ensuring configuration accuracy.
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Secure and validate documents using WS-Security with X.509 certificates: You can now secure and validate SOAP documents using WS-Security with X.509 certificates via new crypto object methods, improving the security of legacy services.
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Secure SOAP documents using WS-Security with X.509 certificates
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Validate SOAP documents using WS-Security with X.509 certificates
Apigee Advanced API Security: New releases
Exclusion Lists for Abuse Detection
You can now specify CIDR ranges and IP addresses to exclude from future Abuse Detection incident reports. Use multiple “exclusion lists” to filter out known safe traffic (like automated testing), reducing noise and increasing the accuracy of your security posture.
Apigee API hub: Updates
API Insights for Unified Visibility
API insights is now available in API hub, providing a unified view of your API traffic and performance across all connected gateways (Apigee, hybrid, and Edge), giving you a holistic understanding of your API ecosystem’s health.
Detailed API resource insights
A new Insights tab on the API details page offers API-centric analytics, allowing you to analyze key metrics like total traffic, average TPS, and latencies directly for each individual API.
Enhanced Management and Filtering in Apigee API hub
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New API deployments view: API deployment information is now available on a separate, dedicated tab in the API details page, making it easier to view, manage, and create new deployments.
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Filter APIs by user-defined attributes: In Apigee API hub, you can now filter APIs using your custom, user-defined attributes from the APIs page in the Google Cloud console, improving organization and discovery.
Apigee Analytics: Expanded Regional Support
Apigee Analytics now supports traffic in two new regions, expanding global coverage: Hong Kong (asia-east2) and São Paulo (southamerica-east1).
Analytics Dashboard Enhancements
Support for aggregate data in Analytics charts: The Error Code Analysis, Cache Performance, and Target Performance dashboards now support viewing aggregate data, offering a broader view of operational performance.
Apigee UI: Updates
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Output from print statements is now displayed in the Debug session viewer: A new Transaction output window in the Debug session viewer now displays print() output from all transactions or a specific transaction, significantly aiding proxy debugging.
Apigee hybrid: Maintenance and New Features
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Apigee Operator for Kubernetes for Apigee Hybrid (Preview): This preview allows you to perform API management tasks using Kubernetes tools, integrating with hybrid v1.15.0 or newer.
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Install the Apigee Operator for Kubernetes for Apigee hybrid
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Recurring, top-up, and setup fees for Apigee hybrid monetization: Apigee hybrid now supports various fee structures for monetization, offering greater flexibility in pricing models, including recurring, top-up, and setup fees.
Let us know if you’ve tried out any of these new features and have any feedback—we’d love to hear it!