Lobster Data Platform Spring Release 26.2.
Lobster Data Platform Spring 26.2 – Publish professional APIs with full lifecycle management, centralise credentials and certificates in your enterprise vault, and let your trading partners self-serve. Scale your integration operations without scaling your overhead.
Your APIs deserve more than basic endpoints. Your credentials shouldn’t live in spreadsheets. Your trading partners shouldn’t wait days for a certificate update. And your team shouldn’t need to SSH into a server just to change a system setting.
As supply chain integration environments grow – more systems, more external partners, more data formats and protocols – the operational overhead of managing it all grows with it. API governance, credential security, partner coordination: these are the challenges that come with running a data integration platform at enterprise scale.
Spring Release 26.2 addresses exactly that. Available to all Lobster Data Platform customers starting 21 April 2026, this release brings full API lifecycle management, complete enterprise vault integration including certificate support, expanded self-service for your trading partners, smarter AI assistance, and continued investments in integration visualisation – all designed to help you take charge of your data flows and operate more efficiently.
You’ve built integrations that work. Data flows reliably between your ERP, your warehouse systems, your partners. But now someone asks: “Can we expose this as an API?” And suddenly you’re navigating limitations. How do you set rate limits per customer? How do you version endpoints gracefully? How do you control exactly who can access what?
If you came from the EDI world – and many of our customers did – file-based data exchange is your comfort zone. But the world increasingly expects APIs. The new API Manager bridges these worlds, letting you expose your proven integration logic through modern, professionally managed REST APIs.
Most iPaaS platforms treat API management as a separate concern – requiring an external API gateway or a dedicated management layer. With Lobster, API lifecycle management is built directly into the Data Platform. The API Manager is now officially available for the first time. While we quietly made foundational capabilities accessible in 26.1 for early exploration, this is the first full, supported release – with a complete feature set for managing the entire lifecycle of your REST APIs and MCP tools.
Why it matters: API Manager lets you publish professional-grade APIs without the professional-grade complexity. Whether you’re modernising legacy EDI integrations or building new API-based services, you now have enterprise-level control over access, rate limiting, and API lifecycle – all from a unified interface within your data integration platform.
You’re rotating passwords quarterly, as security policy demands. You’re managing certificates for dozens – maybe hundreds – of AS2 connections, many of them expire once in every one or two years. Each update means touching multiple configurations across the platform. Miss one, and communication breaks. Forget one expired certificate, and Friday night becomes an incident response session.
For smaller deployments, this is manageable. But when you’re a logistics company with 300 trading partners, each with their own certificates and credentials, managing this inside the platform becomes a full-time job. And that’s before considering that your security team probably wants these credentials in their central vault anyway – not scattered across different systems.
Building on the password support introduced in Winter Release 26.1, the Data Platform now offers complete enterprise vault integration including full certificate management.
Why it matters: Enterprise vault integration eliminates the scattered credential problem. Set it up once, and every password rotation or certificate renewal happens in one place – your vault – automatically reflected everywhere it’s needed. Fully managed by your security team or administrator. Your security team stays happy, and your Friday nights stay peaceful.
Pathfinder has been helping you find the right functions, generate SQL queries, and build crontab expressions through natural language. But there was a gap: RegEx. Those cryptic but powerful patterns that you need occasionally but never quite remember the syntax for.
This release adds a dedicated RegEx agent to Pathfinder and delivers a refreshed user experience across the entire co-pilot interface.
Describe what you want to match in plain language, and Pathfinder generates valid RegEx syntax ready to copy directly into your configuration – with full awareness of the context you’re working in. You can also provide existing RegEx syntax and Pathfinder explains what it does in clear terms. No more Stack Overflow tabs or RegEx cheat sheets. Just describe your goal or paste your pattern and get what you need.
Why it matters: Pathfinder continues to evolve from a helpful assistant into an indispensable co-pilot. The RegEx agent fills a real gap. And this is just the beginning – Pathfinder continues to learn new skills with every release.
In 26.1, we introduced Trading Partner Manager to streamline onboarding new trading partners into your supply chain integration infrastructure. But what about the partners you’ve already connected over the years – the hundreds of existing relationships managed through partner channels?
Here’s a scenario that plays out daily: A trading partner needs to update their certificate because the old one expires next week. They send an email. It lands in a shared inbox. Someone picks it up, verifies it, makes the change in the platform. Maybe that takes a day. Maybe it takes three. Meanwhile, communication is at risk, and your team is doing manual work that adds no strategic value.
Why it matters: Trading Partner Manager transforms partner maintenance from a bottleneck into a self-service workflow. Your partners get instant updates without waiting on emails. Your team stops processing routine changes and focuses on what actually matters. Everyone wins.
When we introduced Process Map in 26.1, we gave you the ability to visualise your entire data integration landscape – seeing dependencies, understanding what triggers what, and troubleshooting with full context. Early adopters put it to work immediately, and their feedback has shaped this release.
Spring Release 26.2 delivers refinements across the board: better visual clarity, improved navigation, clearer error visibility directly on the map, and the search and filtering capabilities that complete the experience.
Why it matters: Process Map was already powerful. Now it’s polished. As we continue investing in integration visualisation capabilities, these foundational improvements ensure Process Map becomes an indispensable part of how you understand and manage your integrations.
Great software deserves great training – and we’ve been busy expanding the Lobster Academy to help you and your team get the most out of the Data Platform.
Our structured Data Hero learning path now offers two certification levels:
Your on-ramp to the platform. This free certification covers the essentials across six modules — from first steps and profiles to mapping, phases, orchestration, entities, and forms. Perfect for new team members or anyone looking to solidify their foundational knowledge.
Ready to go deeper? The Scout certification builds on your Starter knowledge with seven advanced modules covering custom entities, XML/JSON data formats, data import into orchestration, form design, data export, web services, databases, and REST API connections. Choose between self-paced learning or instructor-led sessions for a more guided experience.
Whether you’re onboarding new colleagues or upskilling your existing team, the Data Hero learning path gives you a clear, structured route from beginner to specialist – at your own pace.
We’re committed to helping our customers solve any integration challenge. Beyond the major features in this release, we continuously improve core capabilities, productivity, and user experience. We know: even the smallest improvements can make your day-to-day work faster, smoother, and easier.
