API7 Gateway 3.8.1
Limit Count Advanced — Added automatic fallback to local shared dict when Redis is unavailable, preventing request failures during Redis outages.
Release Date: 2025-05-07
Features
Plugins
- Limit Count Advanced (opens in Plugin Hub docs)
- Added automatic fallback to local shared dict when Redis is unavailable, preventing request failures during Redis outages.
Data Plane
- Supported active and passive health checks for Stream (Layer 4) routes.
Console (Dashboard)
- Specified the validity period of the gateway instance certificate when adding a gateway instance.
- Added a warning in the gateway instance list when the certificate is about to expire.
- Supported viewing the certificate renew method for gateway instances in the dashboard and generating new gateway instance certificates.
Fixes
Data Plane
- Fixed issue: Health checks do not work as expected when using TCP services, and requests are still forwarded to unhealthy upstream nodes.
- Fixed issue: High latency in gateway requests due to Redis service failures.
- Fixed issue: Error in determining the default value of
llm_time_to_first_tokenin AI Gateway.
Plugins
- Removed the
snowflakealgorithm from therequest-idplugin due to potential risks.
Console (Dashboard)
- Fixed issue: The total bandwidth chart data on the monitoring page was inconsistent with Prometheus.
- Fixed issue: When forced publishing is enabled, modifications to the Route’s timeout and plugin configurations are not allowed in the published service.