Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
Scaling LLM and agentic AI adoption from pilot programs to enterprise-wide deployments is a massive logistical rollout. As AI and agentic usage grow, so does a nagging question for leadership: Are agents using the right tools to get the job done? While raw infrastructure metrics might tell you if a…
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The best platform teams don't write glue code — they configure great infrastructure. But as API platform architectures get more complex, policy logic does not always fit into a one-size-fits-all model. Not only that, but security toil compounds with every new service, credential, and cloud provider…
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The shift from single-model AI features to multi-agent pipelines is no longer a future concern — it's running in production today. MCP has become the de facto protocol for tool-calling, agent-to-agent (A2A) communication patterns are proliferating, and enterprise teams are wiring together complex…
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When enterprises started experimenting with LLMs, the governance challenge — while still difficult — was relatively contained once you had an AI Gateway for LLM traffic. You had a request going to a model, a response coming back, and a gateway in between to enforce policy. With the right solutions,…
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Event-driven architectures (EDAs) have pretty quickly transformed from a niche engineering pattern to the all-pervasive central nervous system of the modern enterprise. With Apache Kafka at the helm, enterprises are rapidly shifting gears from synchronous REST APIs to asynchronous event streams to…
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As enterprises race to deploy multicloud architectures and Agentic AI, they face a common bottleneck: "state." To govern AI token usage, manage agent-to-agent communication, or optimize performance via caching, API and AI gateways require a persistence layer to synchronize data. We’re excited to…
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We've been all ears. Your workflows clearly told us what mattered most: tabs that adapt to how you actually work, Git commits you can actually understand, and admin controls that don't require a manual to navigate. Insomnia v12.4 discards the friction so you can focus on what’s most important:…
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The promise of agentic AI is clear: autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and act on your behalf. But there's a fundamental problem standing between that vision and enterprise reality: agents need context to make decisions, and that context lives scattered across your organization. Context is…
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Kong Operator 2.1 is a significant update for our customers, opening up integration into the Kong ecosystem for our Kubernetes customers. With Kong Ingress Controller, when your Control Plane was hosted in Kong Konnect, and you were using Kubernetes Gateway API, your dataplane, routes, and services…
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With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, love is in the air. And apparently, so are breakup emails. This isn’t just about one pricing change. It’s about a pattern. Some tools promise “free forever” to get you invested, watch you build workflows, and then change the rules. They know you’ve onboarded…
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the critical standard for connecting AI applications to the data and tools they need. We are excited to announce the Technical Preview (TP) of Kong MCP Registry , a major milestone in our…
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Today, we're excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.13. Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as a Long Term Support release, with support for a total of 2 years. But first, what's Kong Mesh for the uninitiated? Built on top of…
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See how easily Konnect Metering & Billing transforms API and AI traffic management into new revenue streams. We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science…
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KAi, the AI assistant inside Kong Konnect, just got significantly more capable. Today, we're announcing an enhanced beta version powered by the new Kong Konnect MCP Server — a shared infrastructure layer that also opens up your API platform to IDE copilots and custom agents . The result? KAi can…
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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 period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
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We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 12.3! Kong Insomnia 12.3 TL;DR? Your New Year’s resolution is probably something along the lines of “work smarter, not harder.” Our resolution is to make that actually possible. Insomnia 12.1 and 12.2 sharpened your tools, and now…
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