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What's new in Postman 10.24.16

Apr 6, 2024
  • Improvements:
  • Improvements to MQTT request auto-generated docs. Documentation is generated based on topics, saved messages, settings, properties, and last will in a request.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with viewing hex dumps for binary responses in an MQTT response stream - #12612

New in Postman 10.24.3 (Mar 15, 2024)

  • Improvements:
  • Improvements to MQTT request auto-generated docs. Documentation is generated based on topics, saved messages, settings, properties, and last will in a request.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with viewing hex dumps for binary responses in an MQTT response stream - #12612

New in Postman 10.23.9 (Mar 6, 2024)

  • February 2024 (v10.23.9)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed window not restoring correctly after minimizing when maximized - #12683

New in Postman 10.23.0 (Feb 21, 2024)

  • What's New:
  • Postman links shared on slack will provide you more contextual information and collaborative actions.
  • Save example responses for GraphQL requests to help collaborators better understand your API.
  • Improvements:
  • Improved workspace creation experience with better information around access control.
  • Added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5 to navigate back and forward in the desktop app - #12485
  • Easier selection and importing of .proto files with an improved schema tab experience in gRPC requests.
  • Simplified the save request experience for empty workspaces.
  • Added support for MQTT subscription settings and properties. Also made seeing MQTT request/response messages more intuitive in the response timeline.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolved bug that could prevent responses from being prettified on first load - #12414, #12561

New in Postman 10.22.0 (Jan 17, 2024)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Added support for more MQTT 5 features - You can add message properties like response topic, correlation data, and topic alias to MQTT 5 messages - #12332
  • Added more capabilities to GraphQL schema tab - Now you can import a schema from a local file or URL, and save it for that request. You can also select a specific published release of an API, all this with design updates.
  • Performance tests now give you even more control over load profiles – Fully configure various loads and durations for the Ramp up, Spike, and Peak load profiles using new and intuitive controls.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Improved color contrast for typography when authoring Collection and Workspace descriptions - #12486
  • Added support for displaying variable information upon hover in request body - #9518, #11597
  • Added a select all checkbox for Params - #6928
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Resolved bugs that prevented the Jump to URL Ctrl/Cmd + L and Rename Ctrl/Cmd + E shortcuts from working as expected - #12471, #12521

New in Postman 10.21.0 (Dec 17, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Live preview for Open API schema. Now view documentation side by side while editing your Open API specification
  • Public Workspace Metrics: you can now get visibility into how successfully developers can use your APIs and get actionable insights to optimize the developer experience on your Public workspaces.
  • Ability to attach environments to APIs on the private API network.
  • You can now share your examples with your teammates.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Enable try example button for API-linked collections
  • Ability to edit Fork Labels
  • Realtime updates on Pull Requests
  • API versions can only be published by the API Admin role now.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • You can now convert team workspaces to personal - Github #9806

New in Postman 10.20.0 (Nov 10, 2023)

  • What's New:
  • You can now collaborate on examples via comments.
  • When you select help links, they now open Learning Center content in a new Quick Help pane inside the app.
  • Improvements:
  • You can now reply to comments on Pull Requests.

New in Postman 10.19.7 (Oct 23, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Incorporated some critical bug fixes and enhancements.

New in Postman 10.19.0 (Oct 16, 2023)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Added support for variables in MQTT topics - #12342
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed clean session/start not being set correctly for MQTT requests - #12354

New in Postman 10.18.10 (Oct 5, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Test your MQTT APIs with Postman.
  • To get started, open a Workspace, click New and then select MQTT.
  • Here is a non-exhaustive list of features that are supported out of the box:
  • Connect to an MQTT broker, subscribe to topics, and publish messages with ease.
  • Get a comprehensible view of the received data with real-time response visualization.
  • Work with a wide range of MQTT features with support for v5 and v3.1.1.
  • Save your MQTT request into a collection to reuse, document and share with your teammates. Read more about this feature on the Postman Blog.
  • Autosave is now available in Beta. Once you enable Autosave from the App Settings, Changes to your collections, requests and environments are automatically saved - #8195
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • API Performance Testing: You can now export your run results into an HTML or PDF file - #11995
  • Added support for JSON comments in GraphQL request variables - #12097
  • Added support for Int and Float input in GraphQL arguments - #11931
  • Added support for proxy in GraphQL request.
  • Improvements to the beautify action for GraphQL queries - #12126
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Iteration Data Files uploaded in the collection runner runs can now be parsed according to custom choice. This helps in removing bugs resulting from auto parsing, such as Runner ignoring leading zeroes from data files - #2734
  • Fixed an issue where the Postman app would sometimes cause high CPU usage - #7294
  • Fixed an issue where the GraphQL tab breaks on window resize - #12275

New in Postman 10.18.6 (Sep 23, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Test your MQTT APIs with Postman. To get started, open a Workspace, click New and then select MQTT.
  • Here is a non-exhaustive list of features that are supported out of the box:
  • Connect to an MQTT broker, subscribe to topics, and publish messages with ease.
  • Get a comprehensible view of the received data with real-time response visualization.
  • Work with a wide range of MQTT features with support for v5 and v3.1.1.
  • Save your MQTT request into a collection to reuse, document and share with your teammates. Read more about this feature on the Postman Blog.
  • Autosave is now available in Beta. Once you enable Autosave from the App Settings, Changes to your collections, requests and environments are automatically saved - #8195
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • API Performance Testing: You can now export your run results into an HTML or PDF file - #11995
  • Added support for JSON comments in GraphQL request variables - #12097
  • Added support for Int and Float input in GraphQL arguments - #11931
  • Added support for proxy in GraphQL request.
  • Improvements to the beautify action for GraphQL queries - #12126
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Iteration Data Files uploaded in the collection runner runs can now be parsed according to custom choice. This helps in removing bugs resulting from auto parsing, such as Runner ignoring leading zeroes from data files - #2734
  • Fixed an issue where the Postman app would sometimes cause high CPU usage - #7294
  • Fixed an issue where the GraphQL tab breaks on window resize - #12275

New in Postman 10.17.4 (Sep 5, 2023)

  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue that prevented new Interceptor users from connecting to the Postman app.
  • Fixed an issue that caused inconsistency in request data while creating examples with autosave on - #12263

New in Postman 10.17.3 (Sep 5, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where users were not able to login intermittently after being redirected from the browser.

New in Postman 10.17 (Aug 16, 2023)

  • What's New:
  • Users can now import New Relic services into their Postman workspace as Collections.
  • Improvements:
  • Improved performance for large data imports and Open API to Collection conversion.
  • Users can now share collections/folders/requests along with their active environment.

New in Postman 10.16 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Choose between protocols easily when creating new unsaved requests.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • New and improved look for your application Settings.
  • Added support for string type examples for XML objects and array for OpenAPI definition.
  • New and improved ‘Create workspace’ experience where users can select a workspace template as part of the workflow.
  • Users can start and reply to multiple comment threads on collections, folders, requests and APIs.
  • Secret scanner now runs before your workspace is made public, which the community manager can review before approval.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed incorrect import of cURL with GraphQL body - #9941
  • Fixed an issue where an invisible URL Suggestion was being selected inadvertently - #12125, #12148
  • Fixed environment quick look variables getting over-scrolled - #11202
  • Fixed a bug where double-clicking to select all text inside brackets in the response body pretty view was having issues - #7040
  • Fixed Find and replace, where the collections showed a read-only icon when searched - #12144

New in Postman 10.15 (Jun 15, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Collection Templates:
  • Postman Collections help you organize your requests, collaborate with teammates, run test suites, and reuse components like variables to boost productivity.
  • Easier API Authentication:
  • Postman will now automatically recognize if the request you are trying to send needs authorization and will help you set it up, so you can start using APIs immediately. Gone are the days of digging through documentation just to set up authentication.
  • API Performance Testing:
  • Simulate Real-world traffic - You can now simulate real-world traffic from your machines using Postman.
  • Observe API Performance Metrics - You can observe the key Performance Metrics such as Response times, Requests hit per second, and error rates. This helps you measure and improve your API Performance under the simulated load. Read more on our blog.
  • Universal Tagging:
  • Easily organize and discover your universe of Postman artifacts. Add custom free-form tags to organize all your Postman artifacts, such as Collections, APIs and Workspaces. Conduct granular searches, and discover the resources you need in seconds.
  • Enable faster distribution and curation of your API catalogue on the Private API Network. Add elements into the Private API Network based on tags.
  • Discover elements in your API catalogue on the Private API Network with tags.
  • Private API Network:
  • Folder Management - Decentralize the API curation process for your API Catalogue on the Private API Network. The Private API Network now supports folder-level role-based access control for more granular internal API governance.
  • Folder managers can now manage individual folders belonging to their teams or product areas. They can approve elements to be published into these folders along with other folder access operations.
  • API Governance:
  • Custom Functions - Postman’s API Governance now gives you the ability to create new custom spectral functions by providing a custom logic js file that can be reused in subsequent rule creation.
  • Edit previously created custom Governance rules - You can now edit the custom Governance rules of your Postman team from the API Governance section within Postman.
  • New API Governance Manager role - Utilize the new API Governance Manager role to assign the responsibility of managing your team's API Governance rules and workspace groups to the right individuals.
  • Postman’s OWASP API guidelines - New addition to the Postman rule library, which can be utilized to improve API definitions by enforcing governance rules focussed on the OWASP API top 10 projects.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • API Builder:
  • Automatic Version Publishing - Use the Postman CLI to automate version publishing to your CI/CD pipelines.
  • Schema to Collection Validation - Postman now validates your collection requests and responses and indicates if it is valid as per schema.
  • Private API Network:
  • Onboard teams quickly on the Private API Network - Teams can be quickly onboarded onto the Private API Network by bootstrapping the network with the list of popular Postman elements.
  • Private API Network managers can also efficiently curate the network by adding individual folder managers for their different teams in a single workflow.
  • Add multiple elements in a single workflow - You can effortlessly curate multiple elements to be added to the Private API Network. The Private API Network now supports bulk additions of Collections, APIs and Workspaces for a faster, more streamlined experience.
  • Try out organizational APIs quickly - The Private API Network now allows you to move from the static documentation in the catalogue to the dynamic execution of the request. This allows consumers to quickly evaluate an element that they have discovered in the catalogue. With a simplified user experience for try requests in the Private API Network, you can now quickly transition from seeing an example in the documentation to trying that example in the workspace.
  • Platform Administration:
  • Group-Level RBAC Controls - We’ve introduced an access control system specific to User Groups that delegates team-level admin functions to selected users for exclusive use within the group. These more granular permissions/restrictions will unblock groups while maintaining the least privileged access at the enterprise level.
  • Members & Groups Page - The Members & Groups page now displays a single list with Team Members, Partners, and Guests for easier management, quick comparison, and more combinations for search and filtering.
  • Enterprise Data Management - Super Admin users can now govern all team data, including team members' personal workspace data, ensuring greater consistency across users and preventing data loss when users leave teams.
  • Billing & IT Administrator Report - We've improved and reorganized reports for easy discovery of relevant information by Billing and IT Administrators. Admins can now get better visibility into their organization's Postman usage with these Reports, which feature data on active users, user ingress/egress details, team expansion, resource usage and limits, and more.
  • API Key Management - Super Admin and Admin users can now see all Postman API keys created by team members, helping you manage organization-wide API key usage with greater visibility and control.
  • Manage public elements dashboard - Community Managers can now manage their team’s collection access keys in the Manage public elements dashboard. They can now turn off the collection access key feature for their team and revoke all existing keys in bulk. The dashboard now also displays a list of all of the team’s keys and enables Community Managers to revoke specific collection access keys.
  • Reporting:
  • Improved and reorganized Postman-generated reports for easy discovery of relevant information. Reports enable you to understand and manage how your team uses Postman.

New in Postman 10.14 (May 16, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Set up your workspaces faster with the help of workspace templates. Create a new workspace and choose a template to get started with it.
  • You can now embed videos in documentation using the Postman editor.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • You can now send requests across all protocols in a workspace, even when you are not connected to the internet.
  • Users can drag and drop files and folders onto the sidebar to import them into Postman.
  • Workspace Viewers can now request Edit access to the entire workspace using the Request to Edit button on the Workspace Overview.
  • Postman now shows a spinner when items are loading in history - #10979
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue where OAuth1.0 where signatures are different when using variables in a Request URL - #10165
  • Fixed an issue where the app crashes when sending a request to the URL test - #11828
  • Fixed an issue where switching the environment didn’t update the Code snippets in Real time - #10546

New in Postman 10.13.6 (May 14, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug in Postman Proxy that resulted in Chrome (and browsers based on Chromium) rejecting the client certificate generated via Postman Proxy Certificate Authority.

New in Postman 10.13 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • What's New:
  • Set up auth effortlessly and send requests faster. Postman will assist you in setting up Auth for supported public APIs. [Learn more].(https://blog.postman.com/easier-api-authentication-in-postman/)
  • You can now create collections with the help of templates. Just create a new collection and choose a template to get started with.
  • You can now configure your workspace sidebar to show the work that is relevant to you.
  • Improvements:
  • You can now open the Environment selector using Option+E on Mac or Alt+E on Windows.
  • Add custom parameters to the token request, auth request, and refresh-token request independently in the advanced section for OAuth2 - #11559
  • Comments in JSON Body are now ignored when sending the request - #3358
  • You can now set an empty prefix for your JWT Bearer Auth requests - #11841
  • You can customize Collection Runner to continue executing when an error occurs - #3845, #3360
  • Clear all cookies with a single action - #5215
  • You can now add a dark theme, upload custom logos and add custom SEO for your published documentation - #10539, #9562, #10889
  • Code snippets now support Rust (reqwest) and Kotlin (OkHttp) - #11340, #491
  • Added back the ability to replace or copy a collection while importing - #11862
  • You can now fully expand or collapse the items in a collection using Option + Right arrow or Option + Left arrow respectively - #6355, #2657, #6108
  • You can now publish an API version using the Postman CLI using postman api publish. Include this command in your CI/CD pipelines to publish a version in Postman automatically when the release is created in the repository.
  • Multi-file schema definition and schema documentation are now available for OAS 2.0.
  • You can now perform CRUD operations on your API objects using the new Postman API endpoints. Note: the older endpoints will continue to work but will be deprecated soon. Please refer to the API documentation [refer to API/v10 folder] to learn more about the new endpoints.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Unsaved changes are accounted for when Trying examples - #11834
  • Fixed an issue where EncodedURIComponent was not working when selected from right-click menu- #11798
  • Fixed an issue where query params were truncated without an indication - #11314
  • Timestamps are shown on hovering the thumbnail on history item - #1315
  • Fixed an issue with the run duration for Collection runs - #11877
  • Fixed an issue where the collection documentation was not showing the status code for examples - #11122
  • Fixed an issue where the code block type was inconsistent between the Postman app and Published Documentation - #11795
  • Fixed timeout issues that were happening while connecting to the Azure DevOps repositories.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing Postman to crash on importing certain cURL - #11908
  • Fixed an issue causing import flow to fail for certain RAML 0.8 APIs - #11604
  • Fixed an issue where cURL import with --data-row was skipping body while importing - #7895

New in Postman 10.12.13 (Apr 12, 2023)

  • We have added some bug fixes and improvements in this release.

New in Postman 10.12 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Share specific collections with view-only access to quickly collaborate within your organization.
  • Document your APIs better with the new editing experience for GraphQL, gRPC and Websocket requests and collections.
  • Sort variables in your Collections, Environments, and Globals - GitHub #8985
  • View request and response details in the Collection Runner for faster debugging.
  • Drag and drop a file/folder or paste content in the text area to import and create a collection, request or API.
  • API BUILDER:
  • Schema and Collection Validation - Users can easily update their collection linked to an API schema as changes are made.
  • On-prem Git Support with OAuth (Enterprise Plan) - Organizations can easily switch from using Personal Access Tokens (PAT) to OAuth flows for their current On-Prem API Git integrations with GitHub and GitLab.
  • Multiple APIs being connected to one repository - Allow the teams to connect multiple APIs to the same repository, accommodating various repository patterns out there.
  • User Level Authentication for all Git integrations - Every user can authenticate with Postman using their Git account, ensuring all commits made by the user go under their own account using their own token.
  • API GOVERNANCE (ENTERPRISE PLAN):
  • Granular control of Governance rules - Manage API governance rules at a workspace level.
  • Custom Rule Creation - Craft bespoke API governance rules that align with the unique characteristics of your team or organization with a rich rule editor.
  • Enhanced Rule Library - Postman Template Library now includes more API Governance rules collected from industry experts, regulatory organizations and based on best practices.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • You can now click on request names to open the requests from the Collection runner - GitHub #10978, GitHub #7527, GitHub #9651, GitHub #8122
  • You can now clear the response for HTTP requests - GitHub #10092
  • You can now use Fn keys as valid inputs when customizing a shortcut.
  • You can now easily copy the values of variables.
  • You can now import cURL directly from the request URL bar.
  • cURL imports now support Digest and NTLM authorization schemes.
  • Improved NodeJS-Axios and PowerShell code snippets - GitHub #302, GitHub #322
  • Partner Viewer Licenses are available for free (Enterprise Plan).
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Reduce crashes while running large Collections - GitHub #11562, GitHub #10410, GitHub #9476
  • Fixed a bug where expanding a Map object resulted in the App crashing - GitHub #10437
  • Fixed a bug where OAuth 2.0 tokens weren't selectable in GraphQL requests - GitHub #11737
  • Fixed a bug where GraphQL introspection was not working for URLs containing Postman Variables - GitHub #11765
  • Fixed a bug in GraphQL request's query selector on Windows - GitHub #11777
  • Fixed a bug in generating a cURL code snippet with a backslash - GitHub #11049
  • Fixed an issue where Server-sent events didn't work for certain "content-type" headers - GitHub #11753
  • Fixed an issue with the gRPC server reflection where some Protobuf types didn't load - GitHub #11625
  • Fixed a bug where the advanced configuration for auth wasn't working for GraphQL requests - GitHub #11808
  • Fixed an issue where opening a Javascript map object in the console crashes the app - GitHub #10437
  • Fixed the issue where if a user searches for the request and selects it, upon clearing filters, the collection will remain expanded - GitHub #11736
  • Fixed an issue where the param description was being removed on saving request - GitHub #11160
  • Fixed an issue where setting a variable as false from the scripts was not getting displayed in the environment table - GitHub #9111
  • Fixed an issue where whitespaces at the beginning of client certificates were not trimmed - GitHub #11149
  • Fixed an issue where non-team users were not able to access workspace, collections, environments, requests etc. from the new button - GitHub #11830
  • Fixed an issue where navigating to public entities in the desktop app through Search Box was broken.

New in Postman 10.10.6 (Feb 19, 2023)

  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed a bug where filtering variables was not working in case of non-string variable value - GitHub #11200

New in Postman 10.9.4 (Feb 10, 2023)

  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Scratch Pad users on Windows from using the search functionality in the header.

New in Postman 10.9.3 (Feb 7, 2023)

  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue where some users could not sign in to the Windows desktop app.

New in Postman 10.9.0 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • The Control Pane will now display a warning for branches that are protected.
  • You can now Create a new branch and commit directly from the Source Control Pane.
  • You can now search and fetch APIs in Azure APIM forms (create, edit, import) as per search query if the initial list of fetched APIs does not contain the required API.

New in Postman 10.8.0 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • WHAT'S NEW:
  • Added support for reference navigation in multi-file OpenAPI 3 definitions - You can now navigate to references across multi-file OA3 definitions. To navigate across files, use cmd/ctrl + click on the $ref you want to get to.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Improved performance when opening desktop apps.
  • Connection with on-prem repositories (GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Self-served, Azure DevOps on-prem) does not require allowing Postman’s IP in your network anymore.

New in Postman 10.7.0 (Jan 13, 2023)

  • Support for ID Token in OAuth2.0 You can now choose between ID Token (id_token) and Access Token (access_token) in your OAuth2.0 flows. This option is available in the presence of an id_token in your OAuth response - GitHub #8231
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Added better messaging to notify when Flows could not fetch Requests or Environments.
  • Added better support for FQL auto-complete in Flows.
  • Variable Blocks in Flows now show values that have passed through them.
  • Reduced the steps required to use Webhooks in Flows.
  • Added support for renaming flows from the sidebar.
  • Postman console now shows both error and error_description for OAuth2 errors - GitHub #10124
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue causing the list of Flows in the workspace not to update.
  • Fixed an issue where the Flow was stalling when for Repeat block was used in conjunction with if block.
  • Fixed an issue where connections did not reflect the path taken in Flows.
  • Fixed an issue causing the environment selection drop-down in Flows not to work.
  • Fixed an issue with older Texts in Flows not rendering.
  • Fixed an issue with the Type Explorer in Flows not showing types of null values