November brings exciting new features across Redocly's product suite, with AI assistant enhancements, OpenAPI 3.2.0 support, improved MCP integration, and powerful new CLI validation capabilities.
Here's what's new:
Fine-tune your documentation's discoverability:
- x-keywords extension: Added support for the
x-keywordsextension in OpenAPI documents to boost or exclude search terms through keywords. - Project title in SEO: Added
projectTitleparameter to SEO configuration to append project name to page titles.
Enhanced AI-powered documentation experience:
- Ask AI floating action button: Added a floating action button to trigger AI Search directly from your documentation.
- AI Search feedback: Added the ability to send feedback for AI Search responses to help us improve.
- Configuration update: Deprecated
search.aiconfig option and replaced it withaiAssistant.
Connect your API documentation to AI assistants:
- connect-mcp Markdoc tag: Added new
connect-mcpMarkdoc tag for seamless MCP server integration. - Page actions for VSCode and Cursor: Added page actions that allow you to connect to the MCP server via VSCode and Cursor.
We've added support for the latest OpenAPI specification:
- Basic OpenAPI 3.2 support: Added basic support for OpenAPI 3.2 specification.
- Discriminator default mapping: Added support for
discriminator.defaultMappingin OpenAPI 3.2.0.
More control over your documentation:
- Mock server settings: Added support for configuring mock server settings at the product level.
- Front matter translation: Added
frontmatterTranslateutility to localize React front matter. - Custom properties: Added
additionalPropsto navbar, sidebar, and footer items to enable adding custom properties. - Anchor links to tabs: Added support for anchor links to the tabs Markdoc tag.
- Tag component styling: Updated CSS styles for the tag component.
Better visibility and usability:
- Improved disabled items: Improved text color of disabled items in the file context menu.
Powerful new validation and testing capabilities:
- New recommended rules: Added
no-invalid-schema-examplesandno-invalid-parameter-examplesto the recommended ruleset. - New spec rules: Added
no-duplicated-tag-namesto the spec ruleset. - OpenAPI 3.2 validation rules: Added new rules for validating OpenAPI 3.2 description files:
spec-no-invalid-tag-parents,spec-example-values,spec-discriminator-defaultMapping, andspec-no-invalid-encoding-combinations. - Deprecated rule: Deprecated the
no-example-value-and-externalValuerule in favor ofspec-example-values. - Respect mTLS certificates: Added configuration of Respect mTLS certificates on a per-domain basis.
- Response size output: Added response size to the Respect terminal and JSON file outputs.
- Secrets masking option: Added the
no-secrets-maskingoption to the respect command, allowing raw (unmasked) output to be generated.
We're hiring software engineers to help shape the future of API documentation.
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We're continuing to invest in features that make building and running with Redocly even more powerful:
- MCP servers – we released some MCP servers and we're still doing more... stay tuned.
- AI assistant – we're running some experiments with an AI assistant – it's available in your projects.
- Runtime logs – richer visibility into what's happening behind the scenes.
- Catalog – richer ways to describe APIs, entities, and relationships.
- Visual workflows builder – model API interactions visually.
- Performance – faster response times and improved stability across large projects.
That's it for November! 🚀 As always, we'd love your feedback — let us know what you think!
