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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 Enterprise 2.1 Now Generally Available!

Kong Enterprise 2.1 Now Generally Available!
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesAugust 26, 2020

Today, we are proud to announce the general availability (GA) of one of the most important releases of Kong Enterprise we've had to date — Kong Enterprise 2.1 is here! This release represents a fundamental shift in how customers can deploy, manage and scale Kong Enterprise across their…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-ke-2-1-released)

# Kong Mesh 1.0 Released!

Kong Mesh
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesAugust 4, 2020

We are happy to announce the general availability of Kong Mesh 1.0! Kong Mesh is Kong’s first enterprise service mesh built on top of Kuma and Envoy that organizations can use to deploy a modern mesh across every application — running on both Kubernetes and VMs — and on every cloud or…

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

# Kuma 0.5 Released With Advanced TLS, Fault Injection, New GUI and More

Kuma 0.4 Released With L7 Tracing + Grafana Dashboards!
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesMay 13, 2020

We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 0.5! We are particularly proud for this release since it introduces about 30 new features and many improvements and – as usual – every Kuma improvement is always available on both Kubernetes and Universal (VMs) modes. This version of Kuma also ships with…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-0-5-released-with-advanced-tls-fault-injection-new-gui-and-more)

# Introducing Insomnia Designer: An Open Source Collaborative Editor for API Design

insomnia
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesApril 29, 2020

Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of a major expansion to the Insomnia family of open source developer tools — Insomnia Designer ! Providing a collaborative environment for editing GraphQL and REST APIs, Insomnia Designer allows developer teams to more easily embrace spec-first…

Kong
[](/blog/product-releases/introducing-insomnia-designer-an-open-source-collaborative-editor-for-api-design)

# Kong Enterprise 1.5 Released!

Kong Enterprise 1.5
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesApril 10, 2020

We are pleased to announce the next release of our flagship enterprise offering, Kong Enterprise 1.5! This follow-up release adds additional stability and features on top of our last major release, Kong Enterprise 1.3 , which we announced at Kong Summit 2019 . Kong Enterprise 1.5 key features…

Steven Camina
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-enterprise-1-5-released)

# Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Released!

Kong for Kubernetes 0.8 Released!
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesMarch 26, 2020

Kong for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes Ingress Controller based on the Kong Gateway open source project. Kong for K8s is fully Kubernetes-native and provides enhanced API management capabilities. From an architectural perspective, Kong for K8s consists of two parts: A Kubernetes controller, which…

Harry Bagdi
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-for-kubernetes-0-8-released)

# Kong Gateway 2.0 GA!

Kong Gateway 2.0 GA!
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJanuary 21, 2020

After a full year of development since our last major open source release, we are proud to announce the next chapter of our flagship open-source API gateway — Kong Gateway 2.0 is generally available! With this release, Kong will become more operationally agnostic for large-scale deployments across…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-2-0-0-released)

# General Availability of Kong Enterprise 2020 – The Full Lifecycle Service Control Platform

General Availability of Kong Enterprise 2020 – The Full Lifecycle Service Control Platform
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesNovember 5, 2019

We are proud to announce the General Availability of the latest version of our flagship enterprise offering , Kong Enterprise 2020. At last year's Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we're…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/general-availability-of-kong-enterprise-2020)

# Announcing Kong Studio: Design and Testing Built For Microservices

Announcing Kong Studio: Design and Testing Built For Microservices
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesOctober 2, 2019

Today we’re thrilled to announce a brand new product area for Kong – Kong Studio, an integrated design and test environment for Kong Enterprise customers. We are excited to make the leap in extending our service control platform to include pre-production use cases focused on improving the way that…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/announcing-kong-studio)

# Introducing Kuma: The Universal Service Mesh

Introducing Kuma: The Universal Service Mesh
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesSeptember 10, 2019

We are excited to announce the release of a new open source project, Kuma - a modern, universal control plane for service mesh! Kuma is based on Envoy, a powerful proxy designed for cloud native applications. Envoy has become the de-facto industry sidecar proxy, with service mesh becoming an…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/introducing-kuma-universal-service-mesh)

# Kong 1.3 Released! Native gRPC Proxying, Upstream Mutual TLS Authentication, and Much More

Kong 1.3 Released! Native gRPC Proxying, Upstream Mutual TLS Authentication, and Much More
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesAugust 21, 2019

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Kong 1.3! Our engineering team and awesome community has contributed numerous features and improvements to this release. Based on the success of the 1.2 release, Kong 1.3 is the first version of Kong that natively supports gRPC proxying, upstream…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-1-3-released)

# Kong 1.1 Released!

Kong 1.1 Released!
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesMarch 28, 2019

Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of Kong 1.1 ! Building on the release of support for service mesh in Kong 1.0 last September, our engineering teams and community have been hard at work on this latest iteration of our open source offering. With new Declarative Config and DB-less…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-1-1-released)

# Kong 1.0 GA

Kong 1.0 GA
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesDecember 21, 2018

Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong 1.0 – a scalable, fast, open source Microservice API Gateway built to manage, secure and connect hybrid and cloud-native architectures. Kong runs in front of any service and is extended through plugins including authentication,…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-1-0-ga)

# Announcing Kong 1.0

Announcing Kong 1.0
[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesSeptember 18, 2018

Nearly four years ago, we open-sourced Kong and made it available to the world. Since then, Kong has been downloaded over 45 million times, been deployed in production at some of the largest companies and government agencies worldwide and attracted 110 open source contributors. Today, we're proud…

Mike Bilodeau
[](/blog/product-releases/announcing-kong-1-0)
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