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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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# Faster Config Updates in Hybrid Mode with Incremental Config Sync

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 14, 2024

In Kong Gateway 2.0, we released Hybrid Mode , also known as Control Plane/Data Plane separation. With it, our customers could efficiently and securely deploy clusters of Kong Gateway Dataplanes on their on-prem, private, and public clouds in any combination they wanted, and they could control the…

Silvano Luciani

# Kong Gateway Operator 1.4: Konnect Edition

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesNovember 7, 2024

It’s here! The Kong Gateway Operator release we teased at API Summit is now available for you all to use. KGO 1.4 allows you to configure Kong Konnect using CRDs, attach your DataPlane resources to Konnect with minimal configuration, and even manage the deployment of custom plugins using Kubernetes…

Michael Heap

# Swiftly Prototype and Test Your APIs With Konnect Serverless Gateways

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesOctober 24, 2024

At API Summit , Kong announced the upcoming beta release of a brand new gateway deployment method in Kong Konnect: Serverless Gateways. Designed for speed, simplicity of use, and affordability, it’s the quickest way to deploy a Kong Gateway. Today, we're pumped to announce that all Konnect Plus…

Erin Choi

# Insomnia 10.1 Adds New Collection Runner CLI, In-App Invites, and More

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesOctober 16, 2024

As a follow-up to our recent Kong Insomnia v10 release that shipped with an unlimited and free Collection Runner and one week after announcing our official SCIM support for automated user provisioning, we're now excited to announce Insomnia v10.1. This release ships with the general availability of…

Marco Palladino

# Announcing SCIM Support in Insomnia to Automate User Onboarding

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesOctober 3, 2024

Today we're excited to introduce SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) support in Kong Insomnia to automatically provision and deprovision user accounts using a third-party IDP. This capability will enormously simplify the process of onboarding enterprise users into Insomnia, and it's…

Marco Palladino

# Announcing Kong AI Gateway 3.8 With Semantic Caching and Security, 6 New LLM Load-Balancing Algorithms, and More LLMs

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

Today at API Summit , we're introducing one of the biggest new releases of our AI Gateway technology : a new class of intelligent semantic plugins, new advanced load balancing capabilities for LLMs, and the official support for AWS Bedrock and GCP Vertex, in addition to all the other supported LLM…

Marco Palladino

# Announcing Kong Gateway 3.8

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

We're excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.8 , a significant update that marks a major milestone in the evolution of our API management platform. This release is packed with enhancements designed to boost performance, fortify security, and provide greater flexibility and ease of use…

Silvano Luciani

# Kong Mesh 2.9: Increased Security Configurations and Health Check Capabilities

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of Kong Mesh 2.9 in mid-September. This release comes with many improvements around security configurations, resiliency, and platform flexibility and we’re excited for everyone to get their hands on it. While we’re putting the finishing touches on the…

John Harris

# Managing Kong with Terraform

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

One of the superpowers of Kong Gateway that its users most appreciate is its declarative configuration management capabilities, facilitated by the decK command line tool. Declarative configuration enables you to manage your Kong Gateway configuration using GitOps practices, including federated…

Michael Heap

# Managing Kong Konnect with Kubernetes CRDs

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

We know that a lot of you are all in on Kubernetes as your source of declarative configuration. You have CI/CD pipelines set up already to review and approve your Kubernetes manifests. Not only that, but you’re using everything the Kubernetes ecosystem has to offer when it comes to managing…

Michael Heap

# Shine a Light on Shadow APIs Lurking in Your IT Infrastructure

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

The service catalog is an essential tool that all organizations invested in effective IT management should own and maintain. Without an up-to-date system of record of all services and APIs, organizations run the risk of having what we call “Shadow APIs” — or APIs that are undiscovered, unmanaged,…

Miko Bautista

# Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways Add Azure Support

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

It’s no secret that building global API infrastructure is a daunting task. In April, we announced the general availability of Kong Konnect Dedicated Cloud Gateways — a fully managed, multi-region API management solution that makes setting up global API infrastructure fast and easy. With Dedicated…

Josh Wigginton

# Konnect Serverless Gateways: Lightweight, Cost-Effective, and Fully Managed Kong Gateways

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

Developers, particularly with smaller budgets and teams, who want to manage APIs and deploy API infrastructure for use cases such as proof of concepts, testing, and experimentation face prohibitive obstacles to getting started. The traditional setup of API gateways typically demands significant…

Jesse Miller

# Introducing the Insomnia AI Runner: Accelerate and secure GenAI traffic to one or more LLMs

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

Today with the release of Insomnia 10 , we are quite stoked to also announce a brand new offering in Insomnia, the AI Runner, a managed SaaS service that provides developers with the ability to accelerate and secure LLM traffic for their applications. This capability is the first of a new class of…

Marco Palladino

# Announcing Insomnia 10 GA with Unlimited Collection Runner, Invite Control, and AI Runner for Developers

[Product Releases](/blog/tag/product-releases)Product ReleasesSeptember 11, 2024

The momentum of Kong Insomnia continues with the latest v10 GA release, which ships with an incredible amount of capabilities like the long-awaited Collection Runner built into the application, a new governance capability called “Invite Control,” and an entirely new capability for AI consumption.…

Marco Palladino
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