Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
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…
TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… Have you ever…. If you answered yes to any of these above…. We have great news: Friend, the Insomnia x Kong Konnect integration might just be for you. Kong Konnect is where your API truth lives. Every service, spec,…
Today we're announcing kongctl 1.0, Kong's new command-line (CLI) tool for managing Kong Konnect programmatically. This release brings kongctl to the Generally Available (GA) level of support and capabilities, giving developers, platform engineers, and AI coding agents a streamlined tool for…
Kong Operator 2.2 is now available. This release continues our work to make Kubernetes the central place to manage more of the Kong ecosystem. In 2.1, we expanded what customers could do with Konnect and Gateway API. With 2.2, we're building on that foundation by bringing Kong Event Gateway and…
TL;DR: To get started for free, click here . Before you dig in, you may… In the last few years, Insomnia has reaffirmed its commitment to allowing developers to own their own tools, their workflows, and their data. With Insomnia 12.6, we’re taking this a step further: your collections and…