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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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# Announcing Kong Operator 2.0

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesOctober 1, 2025

We're very excited to announce Kong Operator 2.0! Kong Operator is an evolution of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) and Kong Gateway Operator into a single Kubernetes offering to simplify deployment, management, configuration, and upgrades of your Kong Gateway instances on Kubernetes. Simplified…

Justin Davies
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-operator-2-0)

# Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8.x.x EOL

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesSeptember 23, 2025

As of September 2025, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…

Andrew Jessup
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-enterprise-3-8-x-x-eol)

# Kong Mesh 2.12: SPIFFE/SPIRE Support and Consistent XDS Resource Names

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesSeptember 18, 2025

We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE / SPIRE support, which provides enterprise-class workload identity and trust models for your mesh, as well as a consistent Kuma Resource Identifier (KRI) naming convention for…

Justin Davies
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-mesh-2-12-spiffespire-support-and-consistent-xds-resource-names)

# Building a First-Class Kubernetes Experience in Kong Konnect

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesSeptember 18, 2025

To unlock Kubernetes’ full potential, many enterprises are relying on three key building blocks available in Kong Konnect today: Together, these components extend Kubernetes from being just a container orchestration platform. They lay the foundation for Kubernetes to support the exposure,…

Adam Jiroun
[](/blog/product-releases/kubernetes-experience-in-konnect)

# Multi-Cloud API and AI Infra Gets Smarter: Managed Redis for Kong DCGW

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesSeptember 16, 2025

Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience. Yet managing API infrastructure (which also happens to be AI infrastructure) across multiple cloud providers while maintaining performance and simplicity remains a significant…

Alex Drag
[](/blog/product-releases/fully-managed-redis-instances)

# Announcing terraform-provider-konnect v3

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesAugust 22, 2025

It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated management of your Konnect organization. There have been…

Michael Heap
[](/blog/product-releases/terraform-provider-konnect-v3)

# Custom Dashboards in Konnect Analytics Now Generally Available

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesAugust 21, 2025

If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a latency spike, an outage, or a sudden drop in traffic. The other is the boardroom, where you need to show how the platform is performing, which APIs are growing, and whether…

Christian Heidenreich
[](/blog/product-releases/konnect-analytics-custom-dashboards)

# Introducing Konnect Debugger: Get Unprecedented API Traffic Visibility

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 22, 2025

We're excited to announce the general availability of Konnect Debugger, formerly known as Active Tracing during its tech preview phase. This powerful debugging and observability solution in Kong Konnect has evolved from a focused tracing tool into a comprehensive debugging platform. Konnect Debugge…

Veena Rajarathna
[](/blog/product-releases/konnect-debugger)

# Announcing Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.5

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 17, 2025

We're happy to announce the 3.5 release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC). This release includes the graduation of combined services to General Availability, support for connection draining, as well as the start of deprecating support for some Ingress types as we help move customers to the…

Justin Davies
[](/blog/product-releases/kic-3-5)

# Announcing Mesh Manager Support in Konnect Terraform Provider

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 17, 2025

We’re excited to announce the beta support for Mesh Manager in the Konnect Terraform Provider — a new tool that brings the power of infrastructure-as-code to Kong’s Service Mesh management platform. This provider enables engineering teams to declaratively manage Konnect Mesh resources using…

Krzysztof Słonka
[](/blog/product-releases/mesh-manager-support-in-konnect-terraform-provider)

# Kong AI Gateway 3.11: Reduce Token Spend, Unlock Multimodal Innovation

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 9, 2025

Today, I'm excited to announce one of our largest Kong AI Gateway releases (3.11), which ships with several new features critical in building modern and reliable AI agents in production. We strongly recommend updating to this version to get access to the latest and greatest that AI infrastructure…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/product-releases/ai-gateway-3-11)

# Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 Makes APIs & Event Streams More Powerful

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 9, 2025

We’re excited to bring you Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 with compelling new features to make your APIs and event streams even more powerful, including: We’ll also touch on what’s new with Konnect networking and Active Tracing. There’s a lot to unpack, so keep on reading for the full story!…

Umair Waheed
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-gateway-enterprise-3-11)

# Address Both Sides of API Discovery with Konnect’s Holistic Experience

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

When we released the beta version of Service Catalog last September, it was in service of a greater API discovery vision we had for Kong Konnect as an API platform. In March of this year, we moved closer to fulfilling that vision when we announced our new, fully revamped Developer Portal designed…

Erin Choi
[](/blog/product-releases/api-discovery)

# Kong Service Catalog: The Producer Side of API Discovery

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

In case you missed it, we recently GA’d Kong Service Catalog as part of our broader API discovery initiative . While most API management vendors focus exclusively on the consumer side of API discovery with developer portals, we recognized a massive gap on the producer side. The result? A…

Michael Field
[](/blog/product-releases/service-catalog-deep-dive)

# Create an Internal API and Service Inventory with Konnect Service Catalog

[Product Releases](/blog)Product ReleasesJuly 1, 2025

When speaking with our customers, and particularly with platform teams, we repeatedly hear about how difficult it is to discover and govern all the services and APIs that actively run on their infrastructure. In ever-expanding and changing environments, platform teams often grapple with the…

Erin Choi
[](/blog/product-releases/create-an-internal-api-and-service-inventory)
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