4.0.3

Ping Me Up Sometime

A new Ping API has been added. Many systems need a way to monitor whether or not the API server is still running. The Ping API was created specifically for this purpose. It returns the current date and time in GMT format.

To Log, or Not to Log, that is the Question

Logging is great until you need to sort through thousands of logs that exists only to monitor the API server. Each resource endpoint now has the ability to be excluded from logging. The new Ping API is excluded by default.

Home URL on the Range

The HTTP Framework Setup provides a way to enter the expected Home URL for your APIs. This is used for logging and for producing hypermedia links in your API responses. However, this might not be as useful if your support multiple URLs or IP addresses. Therefore, the Home URL will now be derived from the incoming request.

Time Off for Good Behavior

The new Web Accounts authentication system works really well at tracking the number of invalid password attempts. In fact, it works a little too well. It turns out that once an account has incurred an invalid password attempt, this incursion is remembered by the system even after the account successfully provides a valid password. This eventually causes an account to immediately become disabled after only one invalid password attempt. The system will now reset the number of invalid password attempts whenever a valid password is provided. The number of invalid passwords tracked by the overall system, however, is still accumulated until manually reset.

4.0.2

A Good Thing just gets Better

We hate to sound repetitive, but this is again a minor that ties up more loose ends.

4.0.1

A Good Thing just gets Better

This release mostly ties up a few loose ends that were introduced in v4.0.0.

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