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API Gateway:Release notes for Cloud-native API Gateway

Last Updated:Jan 15, 2026

This topic describes the updates for Cloud-native API Gateway, including release dates, feature descriptions, and related documents.

2025 release notes

December 2025

Change type

Feature description

Launching a new server

Adds the Malaysia region.

New feature

Adds risk management capabilities.

Optimization

Provides risk warnings for insecure authentication plugins.

November 2025

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Feature description

New feature

Supports cross-VPC discovery of SAE Kubernetes services.

Optimization

The whitelist for global authentication and authorization now supports request domain names that include ports.

October 2025

Change type

Feature description

New feature

  • Supports changing the network mode from public or private to public and private.

  • For instances in public and private network mode, you can select a specific network access type for publishing.

September 2025

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Supports version rollback for REST APIs.

Optimization

Consumer authentication configurations are not overwritten when you import REST APIs.

August 2025

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Supports enabling consumer authentication for REST API operations in batches.

Available regions

Adds the South Korea region.

July 2025

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Optimization

  • Supports a grayscale ratio of 0.01% for multi-service grayscale releases.

  • Supports instance upgrades and downgrades during auto scaling.

  • Allows more than three time periods for scheduled scaling.

Available regions

Adds the Qingdao region.

June 2025

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Feature description

New feature

Optimization

The Observability dashboard is redesigned to support more monitoring dimensions.

May 2025

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Feature description

New feature

  • The API timeout policy supports timeout periods in milliseconds.

  • The API retry policy supports configuring retry intervals in milliseconds.

Optimization

Fixes an issue where service prefetch did not work in some scenarios.

April 2025

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Feature description

New feature

The new AI Gateway is launched. It supports converting REST APIs directly to MCP Servers.

March 2025

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Feature description

New feature

This service explicitly supports the gRPC protocol.

Optimization

Adds compatibility for importing OpenAPI files that are missing response content.

Available regions

Adds the Japan region to the Alibaba Cloud International Website (www.alibabacloud.com).

February 2025

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Ingress routes and annotations configured on ACK using the command line can now be viewed in the console.

Available regions

  • Adds the Chengdu region to the China site.

  • Adds the US West, Frankfurt, and Indonesia regions to the Alibaba Cloud International Website (www.alibabacloud.com).

January 2025

Change type

Feature description

New feature

  • Supports AI diagnosis to automatically identify the cause of a problem based on the error message.

  • Auto scaling now supports metric-based scaling, which automatically scales out resources based on gateway metrics.

2024 release notes

December 2024

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Supports guided migration from Nginx Ingress.

Optimization

Consumer authentication and authorization now supports operation-level configuration, enabling, and disabling.

Available regions

  • Adds the Hangzhou, Zhangjiakou, and China (Hong Kong) regions to the China site.

  • The service is available on the Alibaba Cloud International Website in the Singapore and US East regions.

November 2024

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Available regions

Adds the Ulanqab and Singapore regions to the China site.

October 2024

Change type

Feature description

New feature

September 2024

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Feature description

Commercialization

Cloud-native API Gateway is commercially launched.

August 2024

Change type

Feature description

New feature

  • Supports plugin management. It provides more than 20 official plugins by default and allows custom plugins.

  • Supports the generation of API documentation and SDKs. For more information, see Generate SDKs and documentation.

  • Supports internal-facing access.

July 2024

Change type

Feature description

New feature

Cloud-native API Gateway is launched.

  • Integrates the capabilities of API gateways, traffic gateways, microservice gateways, and security gateways.

  • Provides full lifecycle management for APIs, including design, development, testing, and publishing.

  • Provides routing management capabilities.

  • Supports integration with Container Service, MSE Nacos, and Function Compute (FC) to quickly publish APIs for related services.