Introduction​

Apache has grown as a community from the first day of open source and has quickly become the most active open source API gateway project in the world. These achievements cannot be achieved without the joint efforts of our community partners.

"The Apache Community Weekly Newsletter hopes to help community members better grasp the weekly progress of the Apache community and facilitate your participation in the Apache community.

We've also put together some issues for those new to the community! If you are interested, don't miss them!

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Good first issue​

Issue #4241​

Link: https://github.com/apache//issues/4241

Problem Description: Now when adding the jwt-auth plugin to a service/route, the jwt token does not contain a "key" declaration.

{  "iss": "http://127.0.0.1",  "client_id": "application1",  "sub": "1234567890",  "iat": 1516239022}

Issue #4441​

Link: Issue #4441

Issue Description: Now stream_routes parameter "remote_addr" only support single ip, need to support multiple ip or match rule like "192.168.0.0/16", like http routing parameter "remote_addr".

Issue #3601​

Link: Issue #3601

Issue Description: Currently only has unit tests for request-response gRPC proxies, and no tests related to streaming gRPC. Need to add test cases for streaming gRPC to it.

Issue #3931​

Link: Issue #3931

Issue Description: http_to_https in the redirect plugin lacks curl tests, need to add curl tests for http_to_https in the redirect plugin and update the documentation Apache redirect plugin.

Feature highlights of the week​

• uri-blocker support for ignoring case when matching request URIs

  • Related PR: https://github.com/apache//pull/4868
  • Contributor: okaybase

• kafka-logger Support for configuring acks parameters for kafka producers

  • Related PR: https://github.com/apache//pull/4878
  • Contributors: okaybase

• kafka-logger supports configuring the cluster name parameter

  • Related PR: https://github.com/apache//pull/4876
  • contributor: tzssangglass

• referer-restriction Support for configuring blacklist

  • Related PR: https://github.com/apache//pull/4916
  • Contributor: okaybase

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