Improved Access Management

Access management has been reshaped, thanks to extended tests and user feedback.

Inviting external customers and partners to access internal APIs is now possible directly from the dashboard.

From the dedicated section in your hub/documentation settings, you can quickly modify who has access to what. Open it to teammates of your organization, or invite external partners by email directly.

Password-protected level will stay available for a limited amount of time. More info can be found in our help center.

Polymorphism

They have many names: schema alternatives, discriminator, inheritance… but you probably know them as oneOf, anyOf and allOf.

Bump now fully supports polymorphism for AsyncAPI and OpenAPI. You can already upload your latest API specification file to check it out. Or see it in action with our demo documentation of the feature!

Automated Image Generation

After working so hard on your API and its documentation, the moment has come to share it with the world. We recently released a new social network feature, that helps you create beautiful visuals pointing to your API.

You can now upload your own image or leave the work to us to generate a nice one. Sharing your documentation link on social networks will now display your own visual, making it more appealing.

Find out more in our Help Center!

Branching

Introducing Branching, a great way to host several versions of an API Specification on the same documentation.

If your API has several versions you would like to maintain or if you are working between two environments, branching will make a difference and limit the number of documentation in your hub.

Create as many branches as you need, upload files accordingly and find the versions of your API anytime in your documentation, through a small selection menu.

Define which branch should be chosen by default, add or delete branches, keep everything up-to-date and share with your ecosystem the best API experience possible.

Search!

Here comes a long-expected new feature: the Search Bar. We know how time-consuming it can be to scroll through long API documentation to find what you are looking for: the Search Bar solves this in a blink of an eye.

Our Search engine can look in your documentations and even your hubs on your APIs structures: endpoints, objects, properties, webhooks, etc… And to make it more comfortable, we sort them by types (and it looks great, seriously).

We are already working on two limitations: you cannot search in your spec history and we are lacking advanced filters.

Discoverability is an important topic on our end. We want to help teams and communities deep dive into their API ecosystem, making them easier to find and use. We will have a lot more to announce soon and we are preparing a small blog post on this feature’s making-of.

We hope you’ll enjoy the Search Bar: feel free to reach out if you have any feedback or suggestion!

P.S. Search will be activated on your documentation/hub after the next deploy but please contact us if you need it before this as we can manually activate it.

Multiple types for properties

Here is an update that was released some time ago but out of the radar: we now display all available types (even nullable) on any properties in your OpenAPI or AsyncAPI definition.

You’ll now see these correctly displayed properties in your documentation. Multiple types may look like a slight improvement but will add clarification to your team and community.

And we have an example to show how great it is (thanks to Meilisearch’s documentation).

COLORS

You already have deployed your API documentation but feel something’s missing? You couldn’t be more right.

Introducing one of the biggest updates to Bump yet: UI Color customization. You read that right. You can now change the primary color of your documentation to make it shine more than ever. Or make it match your logo/company brand!

We even added a short preview to help you find the best tone and ensure that you’ll keep in mind how it will look in dark mode too.

Try it out from your Dashboard > Customize UI and share with us your best results!

Webhooks

Today, we’re introducing Webhooks integration, as a new way to add Bump to your existing workflow.

Set them up from your dashboard and receive notifications when events on your API structure are detected on your documentation.

Find more in our Help Center!

Documentation Access

Following our recently released Organization feature, the new Documentation Access Management will help control who has access to which documentation or hubs.

Three access levels are available: public, private (for your organization only) and protected (limited, password protection).

Find more in our Help Center!

Organization support

Building the best APIs can be a considerable amount of work and you may need your teammates to help. But you definitely do not want one single shared account for that.

Freshly out of beta, the awaited Organizations feature helps you with that. We did not reinvent the wheel but wanted to make it as simple but powerful as possible.

You can easily customize access with 3 different roles: admin, maintainer, and viewers. Admins can invite and manage access, maintainers can manage hubs and docs, guests are limited to read-only.

Available from the Startup plan, we hope it will help teams work efficiently and smoothly on their APIs. You can find out more about Organizations in our Help Center!

This update was also the opportunity to ship some enhancements for the dashboard.

We can’t wait to hear about what you think of it so feel free to reach out!