As of January 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter a 12-month [sunset support](https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/version-support-policy/#sunset-support)sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway Enterprise. The sunset support period will end in January 2027.
Customers running Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 are encouraged to upgrade to a newer version as soon as possible to maintain support.
For more information, read our [support policy](https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/version-support-policy/)support policy, which describes the support duration for each version of Kong Gateway.
Managing gateway configurations at scale is harder than it looks. When a plugin needs to apply to most routes, but not all, teams could either duplicate configuration across routes and violate DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principles, or write custo
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Imagine you have a single Service, order-api . You want to apply a strict rate limit to most traffic, but you want to bypass that limit—or apply a different one—if the request contains a specific X-App-Priority: High header. Previously, you had t
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How OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange Reshapes Trust Between Services — and Why the API Gateway Is Exactly the Right Place to Enforce It Modern applications don’t run as a single monolithic. They are composed of services — frontend APIs, backend microservi
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How Kong Gateway 3.14 closes the consistency gap in IAM-based authentication across AWS, Azure and GCP — and what it means for your production deployments Starting with 3.13 (which addressed Redis support) and completed in 3.14, Kong now presents
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As API ecosystems grow more complex, maintaining visibility and security shouldn't be a hurdle. Kong Gateway 3.13 simplifies these challenges with expanded OpenTelemetry support and more flexible orchestration. These new capabilities not only make y
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As of September 2025, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping cus
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Update Includes Data Orchestration, CyberArk Support, Solace Integration, and Kafka Schema Validation We’re excited to bring you Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 with compelling new features to make your APIs and event streams even more powerful, includ
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