In application delivery environments, not every meaningful improvement needs to be disruptive.

A large part of maintaining stable and efficient infrastructures comes from continuously refining how systems behave in production: reducing operational friction, improving compatibility, and making administration more predictable for technical teams managing critical services.

That is the direction behind SKUDONET Enterprise Edition 10.2.0,  a release focused on operational consistency, HTTPS flexibility, and incremental improvements across the ADC and WAF stack.

Enhanced HTTPS listener flexibility

SKUDONET EE 10.2.0 introduces additional flexibility in HTTPS farm listener management, allowing HTTP/2 behaviour to be configured directly from the farm settings.

This enhancement simplifies the activation and management of modern HTTP delivery capabilities within HTTPS services, streamlining configuration across different application environments.

Designed for modern web applications and APIs, HTTP/2 improves connection efficiency through features such as request multiplexing and optimised resource delivery, helping reduce latency and improve responsiveness under concurrent traffic loads.

The new configuration approach allows administrators to manage listener behaviour more dynamically while maintaining the operational simplicity of HTTPS farms.

Improved WebGUI usability for day-to-day administration

This release also includes several refinements in WebGUI sections that rely on picklist-based components.

While these changes may appear subtle, they have a direct impact on daily administration tasks, especially in environments with larger configurations or multiple managed objects.

The improvements focus on:

  • Smoother interactions
  • Better responsiveness
  • Improved handling of large lists
  • Greater consistency across configuration views

The goal is simple: to make administration more fluid without adding unnecessary complexity.

For technical teams working across multiple farms, services, or security policies, these kinds of usability refinements can significantly improve operational efficiency over time.

Smarter cookie domain handling in HTTP/S farms

Session persistence management has also been improved in HTTP and HTTPS farms.

When a cookie domain is not explicitly configured, and a dynamic feature is enabled, SKUDONET can now automatically use the incoming request virtual host as the cookie domain.

This behaviour helps simplify deployments involving multiple domains or virtual hosts while reducing the need for additional manual configuration.

In practice, this makes multi-site and multi-tenant environments easier to manage and helps maintain more predictable persistence behaviour across distributed applications.

More consistent WAF rule management

SKUDONET EE 10.2.0 also refines the behaviour associated with WAF rule movement actions.

The rule move process now correctly respects the selected administrative action, improving consistency when reorganising or managing security rules within the configuration.

For teams working with customised security policies, predictable rule management becomes especially important in order to maintain visibility and operational control across complex environments.

As part of its application security architecture, SKUDONET integrates WAF and IPDS capabilities directly into the ADC layer to help protect applications and APIs from modern web threats .

Better compatibility with backend applications

Another important refinement in this release affects URL handling within HTTP farms.

Previously, incoming request URLs could be automatically decoded before being forwarded to backend services. With 10.2.0, SKUDONET now preserves and forwards the original encoded URL exactly as received from the client.

Although technically small, this adjustment improves compatibility with applications and APIs that depend on encoded paths, special URL characters, or framework-specific routing behaviours.

In modern microservice architectures and API-driven environments, preserving request integrity can help avoid unexpected behaviours and simplify backend integrations.

A release focused on real operational environments

SKUDONET EE 10.2.0 does not aim to reinvent the platform, but rather to continue refining how it behaves in real production environments.

From enhanced HTTPS flexibility to improvements in administration workflows, persistence handling, and backend compatibility, this release follows the same practical and progressive approach that defines the platform: reducing operational complexity without sacrificing control, performance, or security capabilities.

These are the kinds of improvements designed for teams that need predictable, stable, and easy-to-manage infrastructures in their day-to-day operations.

As part of its unified Application Delivery and Security approach, SKUDONET continues evolving as an ADC solution built for physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments.

If you’re looking to improve the stability and security of your infrastructure without adding complexity, discover how SKUDONET adapts to physical, virtual, and cloud environments with a unified approach to Application Delivery—try it free for 30 days.

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