Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) April 2024 Newsletter! This is our new, regular round-up of the latest stories from across the OpenAPI landscape. We aim to keep you in touch with what’s going on with the development of the OpenAPI Specification, new specifications being created under the OpenAPI Initiative, and event-related news. Initiative News We’re pleased to announce that Budha Bhattacharya has taken on the role of chairperson for the BGB, taking over from Isabelle Mauny. The BGB brings together members of the OpenAPI Initiative and is a vital forum for the health of the Initiativ ..read more

What comes next for the OpenAPI Specification? How will v4 improve on the success of OpenAPI v3? What can the spec help solve problems in the context of AI and LLMs? As 2023 comes to a close, answers to these questions are beginning to take shape. With an aggressive goal of launching v4 “Moonwalk” by the end of 2024, it is going to be an exciting year. Because there is so much work to be done, it was necessary to establish some guiding principles. After reviewing the major proposals and discussions of the last year, these are semantics, signatures, inclusion, organization, upgrading, and th ..read more

The OpenAPI Specification is an integral part of software development and delivery of APIs. In 2023, we have been joining multiple API related conferences to connect directly with API users and enthusiasts around the world. Next up, the City of Light! Join us for the OpenAPI Initiative’s “OAI Track” at apidays Paris on December 6-7, 2023! See our apidays Paris events page here. What is the OAI Track? The OAI Track is a specialized forum at apidays Paris hosted by the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI). This focused track aims to provide a platform for API practitioners to share and exchange valuable i ..read more

The OpenAPI Specification is an integral part of development and delivery of APIs. In 2023, we are joining multiple API related conferences to connect directly with API users and enthusiasts around the world. Join us for the OpenAPI Initiative’s “OAI Track” at apidays Australia in Melbourne on October 11th and 12th, 2023! What is the OAI Track? The OAI Track is a specialized forum hosted by the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) as part of the larger apidays Australia conference. This focused track aims to provide a platform for API practitioners to share and exchange valuable insights, experience ..read more

Guest blog post by Donald Atha, Software Architect, BetterCloud One of the biggest challenges facing IT teams today is the increase in tedious and repetitive tasks driven by the explosive growth in SaaS applications over the last 10 years. Companies are using more and more SaaS products, which presents challenges when it comes to managing employee onboarding and offboarding, managing licenses and permissions, and resolving help desk tickets. At BetterCloud, we give IT teams the tools to reduce the amount of manual work on their plate with automations and configurable workflows. As the number ..read more

The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on creating, evolving, and promoting the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing today that WireMock has joined as a new member. Welcome WireMock! WireMock was created in 2011 and has been a popular open source tool for API mocking. Last year, project founders Tom Akehurst and Uri Maoz launched a company with the same name. They created a managed cloud service called WireMock Cloud, and in May 2023 announced a $6.5 million investment from Ridge Ventures, with participation from First Rays Venture Partners, S ..read more

Guest Author: Tony Blank Tony is an experienced software developer with an interest in web design, web marketing, customer integration, and software IT including networking, data center management, and sysadmin. He has attended many of the GlueCon events in the past years because of its highly curated content and focus on cutting-edge technology transforming the web, including API Standards. GlueCon was sponsored by the OpenAPI Initiative. “Gluecon 2023 was an incredibly enjoyable conference. I extend my thanks to the OpenAPI Initiative for providing me with a complimentary ticket. If anyon ..read more

Over the last 18 months we’ve been looking at how we can better capture data on the OpenAPI ecosystem with particular focus on tooling – what tool makers are doing, what versions of OpenAPI they support and so on. Tooling registries obviously already exist in the wild such as openapi.tools. The goal was not replicate the functionality of these registries, but to industrialize the data collection process using a mechanism that was eminently extensible and could be expanded with very limited modification. Introducing our OpenAPI tooling registry. The registry exposes a “classic” UI based registr ..read more

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently announced that OGC API – Tiles was adopted as an official OGC Standard. The OGC is a collective problem-solving community of experts from more than 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities representing hundreds of thousands of geospatial professionals driven to make geospatial (location) information and services FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. The OGC API - Tiles Standard defines building blocks for creating Web APIs that support the retrieval of geospatial information as tiles. Differe ..read more

The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing that Bump.sh has joined as a new member. Welcome! Bump.sh is an API contract management platform that helps document and tracks APIs: identifying what changes in APIs structure, and keeping developers up to date across an organization. Bump.sh acts as a single source of truth with information that remains up to date and changelogs. The company has raised $4 million in funding led by Galion.exe and Bpifrance’s Digital Venture fund.  ..read more