# WSO2 API Manager 2.6.0-beta Released!

The WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.6.0-beta of the Open Source API Manager.

WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs proven SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance, API security and API monitoring. It combines some of the most powerful and mature components of the WSO2's state-of-the-art Carbon platform to deliver a smooth and end-to-end API management experience while catering to both API publisher and API consumer requirements.

WSO2 API Manager is comprised of several modules.

- API Provider: Define new APIs and manage them
- API Store: Browse published APIs and subscribe to them
- API Gateway: The underlying API runtime based on WSO2 ESB
- API Key Manager: Performs Key Generation and Key Validation functionalities
- API Traffic Manager: Performs Rate Limiting of API Requests

For more information on WSO2 API Manager please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager. Also take a look at the online product documentation.

## How to Run

1. Extract the downloaded zip
2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
4. Launch a web browser and navigate to https://localhost:9443/publisher to access the API provider webapp
5. Navigate to https://localhost:9443/store to access the API store
6. Navigate to https://localhost:9443/admin to access Admin Portal
7. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin

## Bug Fixes And Improvements in 2.6.0-beta

- JIRA
- GitHub (product-apim), (carbon-apimgt), (analytics-apim)

## Known Issues

- JIRA
- GitHub (product-apim), (carbon-apimgt), (analytics-apim)

## How You Can Contribute

### Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

- Developer List : dev@wso2.org | Subscribe | Mail Archive
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### Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults, and feature requests regarding WSO2 API Manager through the public API Manager Git Repo.

-- The WSO2 API Manager Team --