IBM® API Connect 10.0.7.0 is the latest Continuous Delivery (CD) release, following-on from the IBM API Connect 10.0.5.5 Long Term Support (LTS) release. IBM API Connect 10.0.7.0 CD includes the features that were previously delivered in the releases of 10.0.6.0 CD through 10.0.5.5 LTS. Clients that require a LTS release should stay on the v10.0.5.x LTS and only consider switching to the CD release after careful evaluation of the software and support impacts of using CD releases. For more details about the IBM API Connect Support Lifecycle please see: https://ibm.biz/apic-support-lifecyle

Full list of What's New on IBM Docs for 10.0.7.0 (CD): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/10.0.x?topic=overview-whats-new-in-latest-release-version-10070

Selected Highlights -

API Developers:

• Updates to the assembly authoring experience in the API editor. The API editor for viewing and editing the assembly section of APIs in the API Manager and API Designer is updated with a new user experience. The overall capability remains the same, but the visual components for working with the flow canvas, the policy palette, and the policy properties are updated. 
• New toolkit command to execute API tests stored in a YAML file. The API Connect developer toolkit includes a new command that uses the automated API behavior testing application to execute API tests. You can include one or more YAML files in the command, and each file can contain one or more API tests to be executed.

API Product Managers:

• Analytics enhancements to drive deeper insight and engagement between API Providers and API Consumers. New dashboards, top 20 charts, inactive consumer reports, inactive product reports, consumer trend reports, and more. 
  • Top 20 analytics charts: New analytics charts that show the top 20 APIs, applications, and consumer organizations.
  • Analytics inactive product report: New report in the API Manager UI that highlights products that have no subscriptions, no recent traffic, or no traffic at all.
  • Analytics inactive consumer report: New report in the API Manager UI that highlights consumers that have no applications, no subscriptions, no recent traffic, or no traffic at all.
  • Analytics API call volume leaderboards: The reports tab in the analytics view includes a leaderboard of the top APIs, products, plans, applications, and consumer organizations.
  • Analytics consumer trend report: The reports tab in the analytics view includes a new consumer trend report that shows changes to the number of applications and subscriptions in consumer organizations over time.
• API Governance Enhancements to support the local API Designer, toolkit CLI for configuration and validation of API designer, and improved versioning support of rules.

Developer Portal site administrators

• 20+ new Developer Portal commands to control and managed the content of Developer Portal via a scripted process. Including a new site command that allows export and import of the entire configuration for a Developer Portal site. 
• Ability to configure the analytics chart views in the Developer Portal to configure which analytics charts of API data are displayed to API consumers in the Developer Portal.

DevOps Practitioners 

• Technical Preview: New API Connect Config Sync utility to replicate consumer-side catalog data
• Replacement of management database operator New Postgres operator on the management component does have changes in a range of DevOps procedures.
• Analytics ingestion resiliency: Analytics persistent queue feature updated for better resiliency when both internal storage and offload is configured. The offload processes are now separated from the internal storage processes.
• VMware: New apicup command to get node status from your local machine. The new command can be run locally to get a node's status without requiring you to first SSH into the node. 

Security Practitioners

• OpenShift: Support for FIPS configuration on the API Connect clusterFor new deployments, you can configure support for the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) protocol on the cluster.
• Platform API keys now supports multiple uses. When defining the API key timeout in Cloud Manager, you can additionally choose whether to allow an application to exchange the API key for an access token multiple times.
• LDAP Updates to the UI/CLI to specify Microsoft Active Directory to ensure that the directory is handled correctly in API Connect.