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# Product Releases

Read up on what’s new and what's next in Kong’s latest product releases.

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# Kong Mesh 1.2 Is Here With Embedded OPA Support, FIPS 140-2 Compliance and Multi-Zone Authentication

Kong Mesh 1.2 Is Here With Embedded OPA Support, FIPS 140-2 Compliance and Multi-Zone Authentication
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesMarch 9, 2021

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…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-mesh-1-2)

# Announcing Insomnia 2021.1

Introducing gRPC Support for Insomnia
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesMarch 4, 2021

TL;DR Insomnia Designer and Insomnia Core are now Insomnia. Insomnia Designer users will have to migrate to the new Insomnia application and Designer will no longer receive updates. When we originally built Insomnia Designer, we didn’t want to make large changes to Insomnia without understanding…

Nijiko Yonskai
[](/blog/product-releases/insomnia-2021-1)

# Kuma 1.0.8 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesFebruary 19, 2021

We are happy to announce a new release of Kuma – v1.0.8 – that ships with new health checking features and several improvements! We highly suggest to upgrade to this new version. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full changelog . Join us on our community channels…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-8-released)

# Kong Gateway Enterprise 2.3 Now Generally Available!

Kong Gateway Enterprise 2.3 Now Generally Available!
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesFebruary 12, 2021

Today, we have really exciting news to share with you all. The Enterprise version of our Kong Gateway is now generally available, and it's like nothing we've ever released before. One standout component of version 2.3 is that it now has a "free" operating mode so that anyone can start off using the…

Kong
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-enterprise-2-3-now-generally-available)

# Kuma 1.0.7 Released with Jobs and Service-less Support

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesFebruary 10, 2021

We are happy to announce a new release of Kuma – v1.0.7 – that ships with new features, performance improvements and fixes! We highly suggest to upgrade to this new version. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full changelog . Join us on our community channels to…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-7-released)

# Kuma 1.0.6 Released With Deep Status Checks & Five New Load Balancers

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJanuary 25, 2021

We are happy to announce a new release that ships with some major new features and improvements, Kuma 1.0.6! We suggest to upgrade to this new version to start using the greatest and latest. With 1.0.6 the Kuma GUI introduced the first few chart visualizations, more to come! For a complete list of…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-6-released)

# Kuma 1.0.5 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesJanuary 7, 2021

We are happy to announce the first release of 2021, Kuma 1.0.5! Shipping with performance improvements and fixes, we highly suggest to upgrade to this new version. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full changelog . Join us on our community channels to learn more about…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-5-released)

# Kuma 1.0.4 Released With Transparent Proxying For VMs & New Retry Policy

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesDecember 23, 2020

Make no mistake! This is a minor release in name only: we are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.4 with many improvements and new non-breaking features, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-4-released)

# Kuma 1.0.2 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesDecember 3, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.2 with a few improvements and fixes, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. This is a minor update on top of Kuma 1.0 that shipped recently with over 70+ features and improvements . For a complete list of features…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-2-released)

# Kong Mesh 1.1 GA Released

Kong Mesh 1.1 GA Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 24, 2020

After having announced Kuma 1.0 GA with over 70+ new features and improvements (and Kuma 1.0.1 this week ), we are finally happy to announce a new major version of Kong Mesh that includes all the latest Kuma features – and more – in a fully supported enterprise package. With Kong Mesh 1.1 we…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-mesh-1-1-ga-released)

# Kuma 1.0.1 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 24, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.1 with a few improvements and fixes, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. This is a minor update on top of Kuma 1.0 that shipped last week with over 70+ features and improvements . For a complete list of…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-1-released)

# Kong Enterprise 2.2 Now Generally Available!

Kong Enterprise 2.2 Now Generally Available!
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 18, 2020

Today, we're proud to announce the release of Kong Enterprise 2.2 GA! Kong Enterprise 2.2 is built on top of version 2.2 of our popular open source gateway and brings with it a slew of new features and some Enterprise-only features on top. Let's dive in! For a long time, Kong has supported not…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-enterprise-2-2-now-generally-available)

# Kuma 1.0 GA Released With 70+ New Features & Improvements

Kuma 1.0 GA Released With 70+ New Features & Improvements
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 17, 2020

Today is a big day for Kuma! Kuma 1.0 is now generally available with over 70 features and improvements ready to use and deploy in production to create modern distributed service meshes for every application running on multiple clusters, clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. Before…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-ga-released-with-70-new-features-improvements)

# Kong Gateway 2.2 released!

Kong Gateway 2.2 released!
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesOctober 27, 2020

We are happy to announce release 2.2 of our flagship open source API gateway! Those were some busy three months since the release of Kong Gateway 2.1! We have pushed a number of patch releases in the 2.1 series, we’ve had our first fully-digital Kong Summit , and of course, we’ve been very busy…

Kong
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-2-2-released)

# Kong Embedded: A New Way of Deploying Kong Enterprise on Edge Devices

Kong Embedded
[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesOctober 7, 2020

Today, we're excited to announce a new research project we've been kicking around at Kong: Kong Embedded! If you've used the Kong Gateway before or heard us talk about it, one of the things we're very proud of is that Kong Gateway uses a very small resource footprint. It's a small download in size,…

Kong
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-embedded-a-new-way-of-deploying-kong-enterprise-on-edge-devices)
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