Update the readmes and release notes for the different distributions

api-control-plane/INSTALL.txt

@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
-Installing  WSO2 API Manager (APIM)
+Installing  WSO2 API Control Plane (ACP)
 =================================
 
 
-Running WSO2 API Manager in standalone mode
+Running WSO2 API Control Plane
 ===========================================
 1. The directory containing this INSTALL.txt file will be the root and it will be
-   treated as Carbon home directory and let it be <APIM_HOME>.
+   treated as Carbon home directory and let it be <ACP_HOME>.
 
-2. All the shell scripts and .bat files are available in <APIM_HOME>/bin folder.
+2. All the shell scripts and .bat files are available in <ACP_HOME>/bin folder.
 
-3. To start WSO2 APIM one can use either api-manager.sh or daemon.sh in all Unix
-   systems & api-manager.bat file on Windows operating systems.
+3. To start WSO2 ACP one can use either api-cp.sh in all Unix
+   systems & api-cp.bat file on Windows operating systems.
 
 4. Either of the following commands can be used to start APIM
-      i)  ./api-manager.sh {console|start|stop|restart|version}
-     ii)  api-manager.bat {start|stop|version}
+      i)  ./api-cp.sh {console|start|stop|restart|version}
+     ii)  api-cp.bat {start|stop|version}
 
-        Usage: api-manager.sh [command] [options] [system-properties]
+        Usage: api-cp.sh [command] [options] [system-properties]
 
             command:               
                 --start		    Start APIM as a Unix daemon in the background
@@ -48,9 +48,6 @@ Running WSO2 API Manager in standalone mode
                                 Start Carbon with OSGi debugging enabled.
                                 If the optional 'options-file is provided, the
                                 OSGi debug options will be loaded from it.
-                -Dsetup		Clean the Registry database & other
-                                configuration, recreate DB, re-populate the
-                                configuration, and start Carbon
                 -Dcarbon.registry.root
                                 The root of the Registry used by
                                 this Carbon instance
@@ -81,9 +78,7 @@ System Requirements
    with MS IE 7. In addition to JavaScript, ActiveX should also be enabled
    with IE. This can be achieved by setting your security level to
    medium or lower.
-5. To compile and run the sample clients in <APIM_HOME>/samples, an Ant version is required. Ant 1.7.0
-   version is recommended
-6. To build WSO2 APIM from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have
+5. To build WSO2 APIM from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have
    JDK 11 version and Maven 3.0.4 or later
 
 For more details see

api-control-plane/README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# WSO2 API Manager
+# WSO2 API Control Plane
         
 
 ---
@@ -11,32 +11,29 @@
 
 ---
 
-WSO2 API Manager (WSO2 API-M) is a powerful platform for creating, managing, consuming, and
+WSO2 API Control Plane (WSO2 ACP) is a powerful platform for creating, managing, consuming, and
 monitoring web APIs. It combines tried and tested SOA best practices with modern
 day API management principles to solve a wide range of enterprise challenges
 associated with API provisioning, governance, and integration.
 
-WSO2 API Manager consists of several loosely coupled modules.
+WSO2 API Control Plane consists of several loosely coupled modules.
 
         * API Publisher
         * API Developer Portal
-        * API Gateway
+        * Admin Portal
         * API Key Manager
-        * API Traffic Manager
-
 
 The API publisher module allows API publishers to easily define APIs and manage them
 using a strong governance model that consists of well-established concepts such as,
 versioning and lifecycles. API consumers can use the API Developer Portal to discover
 published, production-ready APIs and access them in a secure and reliable manner
-using unique API keys.  The built-in API Gateway module provides powerful tools to
-secure and control the load on individual APIs.
+using unique API keys.
 
-WSO2 API Manager is based on the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon [Middleware a' la carte]
+WSO2 API Control Plane is based on the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon [Middleware a' la carte]
 framework. All the major features have been developed as reusable Carbon
 components.
 
-To learn more about WSO2 API Manager please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager.
+To learn more about WSO2 API Control Plane please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager.
 
 Key Features
 =============
@@ -134,7 +131,6 @@ Key Features
     - View metrics by user, API, and more.
     - Customized reporting via plugging reporting engines.
     - Monitor SLA compliance.
-    - Powered by WSO2 Data Analytics Server (WSO2 DAS).      
 </details>
 
 <details>
@@ -177,13 +173,6 @@ Key Features
     - OAuth2 authorization code grant type support.
     - Configuring execution point of mediation extensions.
 </details>
-
-<details>
-<summary>Monitor API Usage and Performance</summary>
-        
-    - Improved dashboard for monitoring usage statistics (Filtering data for a date range, More visually appealing widgets).   
-
-</details>    
 
 
 System Requirements
@@ -196,17 +185,15 @@ System Requirements
    with MS IE 7. In addition to JavaScript, ActiveX should also be enabled
    with IE. This can be achieved by setting your security level to
    medium or lower.
-5. Apache Ant is required to compile and run the sample clients. Apache Ant 1.7.0
-   version is recommended.
-6. To build WSO2 API Manager from the source distribution, it is necessary that you have
+5. To build WSO2 API Manager from the source distribution, it is necessary that you have
    JDK 11 and Maven 3.0.4 or later.
 
 Installation & Running
 ==================================
 
-1. Extract the wso2am-4.5.0.zip and go to the 'bin' directory
-2. Run the api-manager.sh or api-manager.bat script based on you operating system.
-3. Access the respective WSO2 API-M interfaces
+1. Extract the wso2am-acp-4.5.0.zip and go to the 'bin' directory
+2. Run the api-cp.sh or api-cp.bat script based on you operating system.
+3. Access the respective WSO2 ACP interfaces
     * API Publisher web application is running at - https://localhost:9443/publisher \
   You may sign in to the Publisher using the default administrator credentials (username: admin, password: admin).
     * Developer Portal web application is running at - https://localhost:9443/devportal \

api-control-plane/README.txt

@@ -1,32 +1,30 @@
 ================================================================================
-                               WSO2 API Manager
+                               WSO2 API Control Plane
 ================================================================================
 
-WSO2 API Manager (WSO2 API-M) is a powerful platform for creating, managing, consuming, 
+WSO2 API Control Plane (WSO2 ACP) is a powerful platform for creating, managing, consuming,
 and monitoring web APIs. It combines tried and tested SOA best practices with modern 
 day API management principles to solve a wide range of enterprise challenges associated 
 with API provisioning, governance, and integration.
 
-WSO2 API Manager consists of several loosely coupled modules.
+WSO2 API Control Plane consists of several loosely coupled modules.
 
-        * API publisher
+        * API Publisher
         * API Developer Portal
-        * API gateway
+        * Admin Portal
 	    * API Key Manager
-	    * API Traffic Manager
 
 The API publisher module allows API publishers to easily define APIs and manage them 
 using a strong governance model that consists of well-established concepts such as, 
 versioning and lifecycles. API consumers can use the API Developer Portal module to discover
 published, production-ready APIs and access them in a secure and reliable manner 
-using unique API keys. The built-in API Gateway module provides powerful tools to 
-secure and control the load on individual APIs.
+using unique API keys.
 
-WSO2 API Manager is based on the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon [Middleware a' la carte]
+WSO2 API Control Plane is based on the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon [Middleware a' la carte]
 framework. All the major features have been developed as reusable Carbon
 components.
 
-To learn more about WSO2 API Manager please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager.
+To learn more about WSO2 API Control Plane please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager.
 
 Key Features
 =============
@@ -109,8 +107,7 @@ Key Features
       - View metrics by user, API, and more.
       - Customized reporting via plugging reporting engines.
       - Monitor SLA compliance.
-      - Powered by WSO2 Data Analytics Server (WSO2 DAS).     
-
+
 * Pluggable, Extensible and Themeable:        
       - All components are highly customizable through styling, theming, and open source code.
       - Developer Portal implemented with React.
@@ -160,17 +157,15 @@ System Requirements
    with MS IE 7. In addition to JavaScript, ActiveX should also be enabled
    with IE. This can be achieved by setting your security level to
    medium or lower.
-5. Apache Ant is required to compile and run the sample clients. Apache Ant 1.7.0 
-is recommended.
-6. To build WSO2 API Manager from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have
+5. To build WSO2 API Control Plane from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have
    JDK 11 version and Maven 3.0.4 or later
 
 Installation & Running
 ==================================
 
-1. Extract the wso2am-4.5.0.zip and go to the 'bin' directory
-2. Run the api-manager.sh or api-manager.bat script based on you operating system.
-3. Access the respective WSO2 API-M interfaces
+1. Extract the wso2am-acp-4.5.0.zip and go to the 'bin' directory
+2. Run the api-cp.sh or api-cp.bat script based on you operating system.
+3. Access the respective WSO2 ACP interfaces
     * API Publisher web application is running at - https://localhost:9443/publisher
       You may sign in to the Publisher using the default administrator credentials 
       (username: admin, password: admin).
@@ -182,7 +177,7 @@ Documentation
 ==============
 
 Online product documentation is available at:
-        https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/4.3.0/
+        https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/
 
 Support
 ==================================

api-control-plane/release-notes.html

@@ -23,15 +23,15 @@
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
     <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"/>
-    <title>WSO2 API Manager v4.4.0 - 30th October 2024</title>
+    <title>WSO2 API Control Plane v4.5.0 - March 2025</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <div id="main-content">
-    <h1>WSO2 API Manager 4.4.0 Released!</h1>
+    <h1>WSO2 API Control Plane 4.5.0 Released!</h1>
 
 <p>
-    The WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the release of version 4.4.0 of
-    the Open Source API Manager.
+    The WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the release of version 4.5.0 of
+    the Open Source API Control Plane.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -45,30 +45,24 @@ <h1>WSO2 API Manager 4.4.0 Released!</h1>
     allows API product managers to manage the lifecycle of APIs and create API products by using one or more APIs.</li><br/>
     <li><b>Developer Portal:</b> A portal for onboarding application creators. It allows application creators to discover, <br/> 
     subscribe, test and consume APIs through their applications.</li><br/>
-    <li><b>API Gateway:</b> Allows access to APIs/services by routing application traffic to the relevant endpoints. <br/>
-    The API Gateway is the component that enforces security, rate-limiting and transformations on API requests while <br/>
-    feeding valuable information of these requests to API Analytics.</li><br/>
     <li><b>Key Manager:</b> The security token service of the API Manager which is responsible for  handling everything <br/>
     related to authentication and authorization of API requests. It supports a wide variety of security protocols such <br/>
     as OAuth2.0/OIDC, Basic Auth, API Key, SAML based single-sign-on.</li><br/>
-    <li><b>Traffic Manager:</b> Controls the traffic flow of the API gateway. This is used to apply request quotas on APIs <br/>
-    for monetization, access control or security related matters. In addition to configuring the available policies, users <br/>
-    can deploy their own policies on the traffic manager which will control the rate of traffic on the API gateways.</li><br/>
     <li><b>API Analytics:</b> Monitors all traffic that’s routed through the API gateways to analyse usage patterns, <br/>
     SLA violations, consumer behaviours, to provide business insights and so on.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
     For more information on WSO2 API Manager please visit <a href="https://wso2.com/api-management/">
     https://wso2.com/api-management/</a>. Also take a look at the online product
-    <a href="https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/4.4.0/">documentation</a>.
+    <a href="https://apim.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/">documentation</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h2>How to Run</h2>
 <ol>
     <li>Extract the downloaded zip</li>
     <li>Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder</li>
-    <li>Run the api-manager.sh or api-manager.bat as appropriate</li>
+    <li>Run the api-cp.sh or api-cp.bat as appropriate</li>
     <li>Launch a web browser and navigate to <a href="https://localhost:9443/publisher">https://localhost:9443/publisher</a>
         to access the API provider webapp
     </li>
@@ -77,7 +71,7 @@ <h2>How to Run</h2>
     <li>Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin</li>
 </ol>
 
-    <h2>Bug Fixes And Improvements in 4.4.0</h2>
+    <h2>Bug Fixes And Improvements in 4.5.0</h2>
     <ul>
         <li>GitHub (<a href="https://github.com/wso2/api-manager/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+label%3AComponent%2FAPIM+closed%3A2024-04-10..2024-10-30+">api-manager</a>)
         </li>

gateway/INSTALL.txt

@@ -1,31 +1,30 @@
-Installing  WSO2 API Manager (APIM)
+Installing  WSO2 API Gateway (API-GW)
 =================================
 
 
-Running WSO2 API Manager in standalone mode
+Running WSO2 API Gateway
 ===========================================
 1. The directory containing this INSTALL.txt file will be the root and it will be
-   treated as Carbon home directory and let it be <APIM_HOME>.
+   treated as Carbon home directory and let it be <API_GW_HOME>.
 
-2. All the shell scripts and .bat files are available in <APIM_HOME>/bin folder.
+2. All the shell scripts and .bat files are available in <API_GW_HOME>/bin folder.
 
-3. To start WSO2 APIM one can use either api-manager.sh or daemon.sh in all Unix
-   systems & api-manager.bat file on Windows operating systems.
+3. To start WSO2 API-GW one can use either api-gateway.sh in all Unix
+   systems & api-gateway.bat file on Windows operating systems.
 
-4. Either of the following commands can be used to start APIM
-      i)  ./api-manager.sh {console|start|stop|restart|version}
-     ii)  api-manager.bat {start|stop|version}
+4. Either of the following commands can be used to start API-GW
+      i)  ./api-gateway.sh {console|start|stop|restart|version}
+     ii)  api-gateway.bat {start|stop|version}
 
-        Usage: api-manager.sh [command] [options] [system-properties]
+        Usage: api-gateway.sh [command] [options] [system-properties]
 
             command:               
                 --start		    Start APIM as a Unix daemon in the background
                 --console	    Start APIM as a Unix daemon in the foreground
                 --stop		    Stop the APIM Unix daemon
                 --restart	    Restart the APIM Unix daemon
                 --version	    What version of the APIM server are you running
-                --optimize      Start APIM with specific features of the profile
-
+
             options:
                 --debug <port> 	Start the server in remote debugging mode.
                                 port: The remote debugging port.               
@@ -48,9 +47,6 @@ Running WSO2 API Manager in standalone mode
                                 Start Carbon with OSGi debugging enabled.
                                 If the optional 'options-file is provided, the
                                 OSGi debug options will be loaded from it.
-                -Dsetup		Clean the Registry database & other
-                                configuration, recreate DB, re-populate the
-                                configuration, and start Carbon
                 -Dcarbon.registry.root
                                 The root of the Registry used by
                                 this Carbon instance
@@ -81,9 +77,7 @@ System Requirements
    with MS IE 7. In addition to JavaScript, ActiveX should also be enabled
    with IE. This can be achieved by setting your security level to
    medium or lower.
-5. To compile and run the sample clients in <APIM_HOME>/samples, an Ant version is required. Ant 1.7.0
-   version is recommended
-6. To build WSO2 APIM from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have
+5. To build WSO2 API-GW from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have
    JDK 11 version and Maven 3.0.4 or later
 
 For more details see