API7 Gateway 3.8.21
gRPC Web — Supported enabling the plugin on routes that use non-wildcard paths.
Release Date: 2025-12-23
Features
Plugins
- gRPC Web
- Supported enabling the plugin on routes that use non-wildcard paths.
- OpenAPI to MCP (opens in Plugin Hub docs)
- Provided the
flatten_parametersparameter to control whether path and query parameters from the OpenAPI specification are placed at the top level of the tools input schema.
- Provided the
Data Plane
- Fallback CP
- Supported using the gateway as a backup node to sync data to AWS S3 and Azure Blob. Note that backup nodes do not provide HTTP/HTTPS services and are not counted towards the license quota.
- Supported authentication using AWS IAM Role and Azure Managed Identity.
Control Plane
- Supported using MSSQL Server 2022 as the database for the control plane.
- Provided script generation for deploying gateway instances using Docker Compose.
- Improved the text prompts for each parameter when deploying gateway instances in Kubernetes.
Fixes
Plugins
- AI Proxy (opens in Plugin Hub docs)/AI Proxy Multi (opens in Plugin Hub docs)
- Fixed issue: Headers configured in the plugin could not override downstream headers with the same name due to case-insensitivity.
- Limit Conn (opens in Plugin Hub docs)/Limit Count Advanced (opens in Plugin Hub docs)/AI Rate Limiting (opens in Plugin Hub docs)
- Fixed issue: The
rules.keyfield did not support the variable default value syntax.
- Fixed issue: The
- OpenAPI to MCP (opens in Plugin Hub docs)
- Fixed issue: Errors or perpetual loading occurred when configuring the MCP Server in AI clients such as Cursor and Cline.
Data Plane
- Fixed issue: The gateway continued its startup process even after failing to connect to the control plane during initialization.
- Fixed issue: Heartbeat failed when the gateway listened on the same port using different IP addresses.
- Fixed issue: The Fallback CP feature failed to load credential data correctly.
- Fixed issue: Optimized the performance after enabling the Prometheus plugin.
Control Plane
- Fixed issue: For services created via the Admin API, their routes could not be selected on the console's monitoring page to view monitoring data.
- Fixed issue: Incorrect "Unhealthy Ratio" data displayed on the console's upstream page after configuring active health checks for an upstream.