# WSO2 API Manager 4.0.0-Beta Released!

The WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the release of version 4.0.0-Beta of the Open Source API Manager.

The WSO2 API Manager is a fully open source full lifecycle API Management product that can be deployed on-prem,
available on SaaS, deployed on a private cloud or deployed in a hybrid model. It is comprised of the following
components that provides all of its functionality.

- API Designer and Publisher: Allows API creators to design, implement and document APIs and
  allows API product managers to manage the lifecycle of APIs and create API products by using one or more APIs.
- Developer Portal: A portal for onboarding application creators. It allows application creators to discover,
  subscribe, test and consume APIs through their applications.
- API Gateway: Allows access to APIs/services by routing application traffic to the relevant endpoints.
  The API Gateway is the component that enforces security, rate-limiting and transformations on API requests while
  feeding valuable information of these requests to API Analytics.
- Key Manager: The security token service of the API Manager which is responsible for handling everything
  related to authentication and authorization of API requests. It supports a wide variety of security protocols such
  as OAuth2.0/OIDC, Basic Auth, API Key, SAML based single-sign-on.
- Traffic Manager: Controls the traffic flow of the API gateway. This is used to apply request quotas on APIs
  for monetization, access control or security related matters. In addition to configuring the available policies, users
  can deploy their own policies on the traffic manager which will control the rate of traffic on the API gateways.
- API Analytics: Monitors all traffic that’s routed through the API gateways to analyse usage patterns,
  SLA violations, consumer behaviours, to provide business insights and so on.

For more information on WSO2 API Manager please visit https://wso2.com/api-management/. 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/devportal to access the Developer Portal
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 4.0.0-Beta

- GitHub (product-apim)

## Known Issues

- GitHub (product-apim)

## How You Can Contribute

### Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

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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.

And please be advised that, security issues must be reported to security@wso2.com, not as a GitHub issue, in order to reach proper audience. We strongly advise following the WSO2 Security Vulnerability Reporting Guidelines when reporting the security issues.

-- The WSO2 API Manager Team --