---
title: "Zuplo Release v6.44.0"
description: ""
canonicalUrl: "https://zuplo.com/changelog/2025/03/18/zuplo-release-v6.44.0"
pageType: "changelog"
date: "2025-03-18"
tags: "cli, runtime"
---
This release introduces significant enhancements to request handling, CLI
authentication, logging capabilities, and observability. Key features include a
new pre-routing hook for request manipulation before routing, enhanced CLI
authentication supporting both Auth0 and API Key methods, custom log fields
across all logging plugins, and improved tracing for programmatically invoked
policies.

### New Features 🎉

- **Pre-routing hook** - Introduces a powerful new hook that allows you to
  manipulate incoming requests before routing checks are performed. This enables
  use cases like making URLs case-insensitive or normalizing URL paths.
  [Learn more about pre-routing hooks](https://zuplo.com/docs/handlers/custom-handler#pre-routing-hook)

- **Custom log fields for all logging plugins** - All logging plugins now
  support a `fields` option that allows you to append custom fields to every log
  entry. This enhancement enables better log enrichment and correlation across
  your observability stack.
  [See custom log fields documentation](https://zuplo.com/docs/articles/log-plugins#custom-fields)

- **Tracing for programmatically invoked policies** - Policies that are invoked
  programmatically now include proper tracing information, improving
  observability and debugging capabilities when policies call other policies
  within your API gateway.
  [Learn about API monitoring with OpenTelemetry](https://zuplo.com/docs/articles/opentelemetry)

### Bug Fixes 🐛

- **Enhanced error handling** - Strengthened error handling checks for the
  `throwOnError` configuration option, ensuring more predictable behavior when
  errors occur in your API gateway.

### Documentation 📚

- **CLI command consistency** - Updated the CLI documentation and commands to
  consistently use `zuplo` instead of the shortened `zup` command, improving
  clarity and consistency across all documentation.