Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
We are happy to announce the latest release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma, which is packed with features and improvements. Kong Mesh 1.7 is focused on security and stability, as it allows to better integrate with AWS thanks to a native AWS ACM integration to store CA certificates while implementing…
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 2.8 , which further simplifies API management and improves security for all services across any infrastructure. This announcement demonstrates Kong’s continued commitment to our customers and community by providing a next-generation…
Today, Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.2 is now generally available. KIC 2.2 marks a major milestone in the development of the Kong Ingress Controller, as it is the first release containing a marquee feature, Gateway API. This represents a major milestone for Kong as we continue to keep up to date…
We are happy to announce the first release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma in 2022, which is packed with features and improvements, including substantial performance improvements when running at scale. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes…
Multiple teams at Kong have been improving accessibility (also referred to as a11y) across our products. Over the past few months, our Dev Portal team has been working on accessibility improvements prompted by the needs of our customers. For example, financial services and government institutions…
It's commonly accepted now that APIs and microservices are the future of how software will be built. The introduction of application programming interfaces (APIs) first enabled development teams to expose services to the internet and provide value to their customers and partners. For many…
Starting with the 2.7 release, using Cassandra as a configuration datastore for the Kong Gateway will be considered deprecated. Cassandra features will remain in Kong through 3.3, and its use will not be prohibited. However, some newly introduced functionality may not be optimized for performance…
In February 2021, we announced the GA of Kong Konnect , the first cloud native service connectivity platform that gives organizations the flexibility of protecting their API and service traffic while simultaneously taking advantage of 10x ops improvements via the cloud control plane. Since our Kong…
Today, we are welcoming another noteworthy advancement of the Kong Gateway - the general availability of version 2.7! Both Kong Gateway and Kong Gateway OSS version 2.7 downloads are available on your favorite distribution channels. This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important…
For those who aren't familiar with Insomnia , it's Kong's API testing, design and debugging platform. Insomnia's product vision is to optimize API development by simplifying and automating a developer's workflows. APIOps plays a key role in this vision, optimizing API development by simplifying and…
We are happy to announce a new major release of Kuma, and a new major release of Kong Mesh built on Kuma! Kuma 1.4 ships with 25+ new features and countless improvements, particularly when it comes to performance. As previously announced at Kong Summit 2021, Kong Mesh ships we enterprise…
Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller 2.0 (KIC) - the most robust, scalable, and extensible version of our Kubernetes Ingress Controller to date. This is a major milestone both for the KIC product as well as for the Kong community as a whole. In…
**As of December 2021, Kong Gateway has now released our 2.7 version! This release of the Kong Gateway includes a number of important features that serve as a foundation for addressing API security and compliance.** Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of Kong Gateway 2.6!…
Today at Kong Summit , we are thrilled to announce several new products, features and capabilities across our entire service connectivity platform with the goal of making service connectivity as invisible and easily consumable as electricity. These updates include making the Kong Istio Gateway…
Just under one year ago, we launched version 1.0 of our Kong Ingress Controller (KIC). That was a huge milestone for us here at Kong, and we know it was for you - Kong Nation - as well. Since then, with the help of our community, we've merged over 300 new features and bug…