What're New Features in Apidog - September Updates!

September will be gone in a flash. We’re excited to share a host of powerful updates that will elevate your API development experience! Here’s a detailed look at what’s new this September in Apidog:

🔥 Brand-new Dynamic Value: Our innovative dynamic value feature significantly enhances data handling with richer types and flexible configurations. For example, you can now manage date/time settings with options for Date Manipulation, Date Formatting, and Timezone adjustments. Plus, you can set the default Locale for the generated data to better suit your needs. Explore more here.

⚡ Single Sign-On (SSO) Update: With the enabling of Single Sign-On (SSO) for your organization, you can now map identity provider (IdP) groups to teams at Apidog. This feature allows users to automatically join the corresponding team upon SSO login, streamlining user management and improving security.

What is Single Sign-On (SSO)?

In this article, we will introduce basic information about single sign-on (SSO), such as its mechanism, types, advantages and disadvantages. If you would like to deepen your understanding of SSO, please refer to this article.

Apidog BlogDavid Demir

🎮 Content Visibility Control: New options for controlling the visibility of endpoints, markdown documents, and folders empower you to decide whether the content can be published externally. This ensures that sensitive information remains secure while maintaining flexibility in collaboration. Get more information here.

📄 Headers and Descriptions for Response: You can add Headers and Description to Responses, complying with the OpenAPI specifications.

📺 Custom Media Types: While editing endpoints, the request and response body now supports custom Media Types, offering greater flexibility in handling requests.

🚀 Discriminator Property Display: The discriminator property for schemas utilizing anyOf/oneOf is now visible in the documentation. This enhancement adds clarity to your API specifications, helping identify and differentiate schema variations.

🧩 Enhanced Debugging Experience: Debugging just got easier! You can simplify parameter value entries by using {{$, which allows direct selection from built-in dynamic value expressions. This enhancement streamlines your workflow, making it easier to test various scenarios.

How to Debug APIs Effectively for Beginners

In the era of software development, precision, and error-free codes are paramount. However, it is easy to find code errors and bugs that can affect your application’s reliability. This is where debugging steps in to save you.

Apidog BlogAhmed Waheed

🌐 Azure Pipelines Integration: Easily integrate test scenarios into Azure Pipelines with just one click, simplifying your CI/CD processes. This integration facilitates seamless testing and deployment, enhancing your overall workflow efficiency.

What Is CI/CD and How Does It Work

What Is CI/CD?CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (or Continuous Delivery), and it represents a set of principles, best practices, and tools that enable software development teams to deliver code changes more frequently and reliably.

Apidog BlogDavid Demir

⚙️ Cross-Team Test Scenarios: Our test scenarios now support referencing endpoints and test scenarios across teams and projects. This feature promotes better collaboration and consistency in testing practices, enabling teams to leverage shared resources more effectively.

🌿 Sprint Branch Creation: You can now create a new sprint branch from an existing one, helping you better manage development cycles and track progress on various features. This addition supports agile methodologies and boosts project organization.

Branch Strategy: Accelerate API Iteration

Explore Apidog’s Branch feature, designed to optimize API development through isolated branches, streamlined merging, and enhanced collaboration.

Apidog BlogOliver Kingsley

🛠️ gRPC-Gateway Support: Users can now seamlessly import .proto files of the gRPC-Gateway's HTTP JSON API directly into their HTTP projects, enabling the automatic generation of comprehensive documentation. We’re dedicated to enhancing Apidog to support your API development needs. Check out the latest optimizations we've made in the Apidog Changelog.


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