Included in this release:
- Go OpenAPI-first with Tyk 5.8
- New capabilities: simpler, secure upstream auth, streamlined import and docs, and enhanced YAML support
- Essential developer experience, security and API governance enhancements
- Easy migration paths from Tyk Classic APIs to Tyk OAS
The way you manage your API ecosystem can significantly influence your business outcomes. Getting your developer experience, security and API governance right can accelerate productivity, open up new income streams and lead to significant cost savings.
Tyk 5.8 helps with all of this. With this release, Tyk is now OpenAPI-first, empowering you to use the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) by default for all API definitions. New features have been added to improve our OpenAPI-powered API definitions, providing numerous benefits that enhance your developer experience, security, and API governance.
With Tyk 5.8, OAS isn’t just a default choice, it’s a powerful business accelerator. Experience enhanced collaboration and interoperability, increased automation and efficiency, and security that adapts to your business needs.
Levelling up your developer experience
Productive developers who can achieve their goals without friction are key to unlocking the full potential of your APIs and driving related revenue. The right tools empower them to work with familiar formats, shortening the learning curve, reducing cognitive load, and boosting both productivity and job satisfaction.
Tyk 5.8 makes this easy. Developers can now work directly with the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) they already use for API design and documentation, importing existing OpenAPI documents into Tyk and exporting API definitions for use in portals and docs. YAML support in Tyk Dashboard and Tyk Operator means you’re no longer limited to JSON format for your API definitions — developers can now import, edit, and export in their preferred format, switching seamlessly between the two.
Enhancing API security
Security matters. You know it, we know it—everyone does. But API security shouldn’t be something that keeps you up at night. Adopting standards and implementing capabilities should be straightforward, not a headache.
Tyk 5.8 helps make that a reality. It brings greater consistency and flexibility to your API security, including more options for securing connections between the Tyk Gateway and upstream services. Whether it’s OAuth 2.0 client credentials, basic authentication, or other methods, you can protect integrations—like Salesforce, ServiceNow, or ManusPlus—without sacrificing ease of use. As of this release Tyk now supports Kubernetes secrets for HMAC request signing in Tyk Operator, giving you a reliable and efficient way to secure your APIs in a Kubernetes environment, where message reliability really matters.
Prioritizing API governance
API sprawl, shadow APIs, non-standard API patterns… the chaotic dysfunction of API ecosystems is real and rising. It’s costing enterprises millions. API chaos is already slowing growth and innovation. Throw AI agents into the mix and the issues grow exponentially.
Open standards such as OAS are the answer, bringing consistency and enhanced collaboration. But that’s not enough. You need OAS-native tools that can flex to meet your needs today and in the future.
Tyk 5.8 is here to level up your future readiness. Keep your OpenAPI specs as the single source of truth for your API configurations, ensuring consistency while reducing manual overhead. View audit logs in Tyk Dashboard, for superior visibility of user activity. Easily ensure your API implementation matches the API documentation by configuring features automatically from the OpenAPI description – including authentication, request validation, mock responses and allowed endpoints. Combined with API templates, generate fully configured APIs on Tyk simply by importing your OAS document. Tyk 5.8 enables all this and more.
Migrate to OpenAPI specification with ease
Our built-in migration function makes it easy to move your existing Tyk Classic API portfolio to Tyk OAS quickly and smoothly. This simple but powerful feature will convert your existing Tyk Classic APIs to Tyk OAS format. You can take a direct or staged conversion approach, with the latter enabling you to test and tweak before replacing your original APIs.
When you convert a Tyk Classic API to Tyk OAS, we will automatically construct a valid OpenAPI description, which you can export and use in your documentation, testing, code generation and more.
With Tyk 5.8, you can add new endpoints with Tyk’s intuitive API Designer, see these appear in your OpenAPI description, then export from Tyk for use in your documentation.
It’s never been easier to bring consistency, order and efficiency to your API ecosystem. Tyk 5.8 is the enabler you need to take your business to the next level, boosting productivity while reducing the cost of API chaos.
Get a first look at Tyk 5.8
Join Tyk’s Director of Product Ecosystem, Budha Bhattacharya, and Senior Product Manager, Andy Ost, as they showcase the powerful new capabilities in Tyk 5.8, designed to make API management easier and more efficient. Here’s what you can expect from the webinar:
- Simpler, Secure Upstream Auth – Stronger security with less effort.
- Streamlined Import & Docs – Faster imports, clearer documentation.
- Enhanced YAML Support – For standardization and consistency.
