Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
Regulated industries don't get to choose their cryptography standards; governments and auditors choose for them. If you sell software to a U.S. federal agency, a bank, a healthcare payer, or almost any organization operating under FedRAMP, HIPAA, or PCI DSS oversight, the cryptographic modules in…
In July, we announced Kong AI Gateway 2.0 in private beta and made a promise: freed from the API gateway release train, AI Gateway would ship at the speed of the AI ecosystem itself. We said you'd see the evidence quickly. Here it is. Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is now generally available , and…
As of Aug 31 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter its End of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… A Git Sync experience that fits your API testing workflow, not the other way around. Insomnia 13.1 now reads your .gitconfig, syncing the native git credentials you’ve already configured, so now you just need to connect once,…
We have big news for platform and AI infra teams: Kong AI Gateway 2.0 is available today in private beta . It runs on its own dedicated runtime, ships on its own release cadence, and carries a completely reimagined user experience designed around the way teams actually build with AI: models, MCP…
If you're running Kafka at any real scale, you've probably hit some version of these three problems. Compliance wants specific fields — SSNs, emails, account numbers — locked down, but your consumers still need the rest of the record. Your topic names are load-bearing in ways nobody planned for, so…
TL;DR: Be sure to stay up-to-date with all things Kong Insomnia . Developers aren't writing every request by hand anymore. Claude Code, Codex, and other agentic tools have quietly taken over a job that used to belong to traditional API clients: making the request, reading the response, iterating.…
Platform teams don't build great infrastructure by writing glue code. They build it by configuring great primitives. But as API footprints grow in scale and complexity, the gap between what a platform needs and what it takes to run it keeps widening: more workarounds, more bespoke scripts, more…
Your security scanner has been yelling at you. Your compliance team has been forwarding the reports. Your platform engineers have been patching OS-level vulnerabilities in Kong's base image that never touched Kong itself. These are the common challenges faced by enterprise customers, especially…
We're excited to announce the expansion of Kong Identity to include centralized principals, which is a single source of truth for every entity (machine, agent, processes, etc) that needs to be authenticated across API gateways, event gateways, and developer portal applications. For platform teams…
The MCP demo impressed the room. Then someone asked how 5,000 employees would connect to 40 MCP servers, and the answer was: one OAuth consent screen at a time. Per user. Per server. No central policy, no unified audit trail, and nothing stopping a personal account from getting wired into a work…
As of July 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
Kong Insomnia 13 delivers native Kong Konnect Gateway integration that lets developers query live gateway configuration directly from their terminal, so what they test is always what's deployed, with no manual spec imports and no stale collections. To get started for free, click here . You invested…
AI moves fast: new models, new pricing, new capabilities, sometimes all at once. Prepaid credits let customers buy value upfront and spend it across whatever you're offering today or launch next, without needing to reprice, remigrate, or renegotiate every time something changes. Prepaid credits are…
A new version of KAi, the Kong Konnect agentic platform assistant, is live. This is the release that turns KAi from a knowledgeable guide into something that can actually build inside your org — of course, within guardrails that you control. Until now, KAi could tell you how to set up a service,…
Kong Mesh 2.14 delivers important improvements for multi-zone customers, with expanded policy support for zone proxies, new SNI-based matching for cross-zone and external-service traffic, stronger default security settings, and better observability through OpenTelemetry and Grafana dashboards. What…
