Welcome to the unveiling of Halon Engage 10 – the latest milestone in our journey to empower large-scale senders. We're excited to introduce you to a host of enhancements that make this release a must-have for your email infrastructure. Halon prides itself on being the most modern, future-proof email infrastructure on the market. Each new release offers a range of DevOps elements to further empower your team and elevate their speed, efficiency, and productivity.
We are always striving to meet the evolving needs of our clients, be at the forefront of innovation, and consistently surpass industry standards. To better reflect our rolling software update model which you know and love, we're implementing a fresh versioning approach for our quarterly software releases. From now on, Halon Engage's version number will rise with each quarterly release, independently of individual package versions. Halon Engage 10 is the latest version of Halon Engage.
Let's dive into the star of the show – Bounce Patrol. This feature simplifies your life by offering multiple options for classifying bounces. You can use our built-in classification patterns, leverage your existing system’s patterns, or combine both approaches. The best part? Bounce Patrol’s classification patterns are available and updated via a separate package in the software repositories for fast and convenient updates. Need customizations? No problem. You can swiftly create overrides to maintain patterns according to your preferences. Plus, the built-in category names can be easily mapped to your existing system for a seamless migration. Bounce Patrol not only simplifies your life by offering multiple options for classifying bounce messages but also enhances your operational team's experience. By utilizing this feature to categorize bounces, you can effortlessly clean up traffic and proactively mitigate issues, such as blockages, ensuring a smoother and more efficient email handling process.
Say hello to our new Connect feature. It enables the delivery of mobile push notifications from your email flow. Supporting both Apple’s APN and Google’s Firebase (FCM), Connect enables you to build fast and robust email-triggered notification flows to mobile applications.
Another exciting addition to Connect is the ability to make background HTTP requests using the Ultra IO architecture. This powerful feature allows you to fetch real-time data from external sources like JSON or REST APIs without impeding performance. This is ideal for when you want to make policy decisions based on information that changes frequently or when you need to make lookups that cannot be cached, such as per-message spam classification.
We understand that every sender’s architecture is unique. That’s why we are introducing the new Injection API. This native plugin API seamlessly integrates with your message generation application, providing an alternative when SMTP or HTTP doesn't quite fit the bill. Traditionally, email senders inject messages to be delivered into Halon Engage over either SMTP (the traditional email protocol) or HTTP. However, we know that no two senders’ infrastructure is identical. To accommodate the best possible fit, performance, and robustness, we've prepared ready-made connectors for various protocols, including RabbitMQ.
Want a summary of these exciting updates? Here are the nuggets in video format!
In addition to the featured improvements, we've also made many additional enhancements, including: