Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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**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!…
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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…
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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…
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We are happy to announce a new major release of Kuma, and a new major release of Kong Mesh built on Kuma! Kuma 1.3 ships with 10+ new features and countless improvements. Kong Mesh ships we enterprise capabilities for large scale service mesh deployments. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to…
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Hello, Kong Nation 👋 ! We've fashioned a pristine version of the Kong Gateway (OSS) 2.5, which is now available on the normal channels. Read on for more release information. Imagine you're visiting a banking website to transfer funds to friends and family during the holiday season. If the wire…
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We are happy to announce a new major release of Kuma, and a new major release of Kong Mesh built on Kuma! Kuma 1.2 ships with 20 new features and countless improvements. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh. For…
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If you've not heard of decK (our declarative configuration and drift detection tool for Kong Gateway ) before, now's a great time to get hands-on with it as we've just shipped decK v1.7.0 with a whole host of new goodies. Oh, and it's all open source as usual. v1.7.0 adds lots of Konnect -related…
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Today, we are thrilled to announce that we have expanded open access to Kong Konnect, the world's only cloud native, full lifecycle service connectivity platform, for everybody anywhere in the world, thanks to a new plan called Konnect Plus! Available today with a free 30-day trial . The era of…
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We are truly excited to release Kong Mesh 1.2 today and introduce three new security capabilities that make it the most secure enterprise service mesh available today. Kong Mesh is built on open source Kuma which Kong created in 2019 and has since donated it to the CNCF . Kuma is a universal…
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