The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
As of Aug 31 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter its End of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
As of July 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
I'm excited to announce that Kong Enterprise, our modern, scalable service connectivity platform, is now available on top cloud marketplaces, including AWS Marketplace and GovCloud (US) regions, Azure Marketplace, Google Cloud Platform, and Red Hat Marketplace! Built on Kong's core open source…
The best platform teams don't write glue code — they configure great infrastructure. But as API platform architectures get more complex, policy logic does not always fit into a one-size-fits-all model. Not only that, but security toil compounds with every new service, credential, and cloud provider…
Modern API architectures are no longer linear. A single request can traverse multiple layers of authentication, transformation, enrichment, and observability. As these flows grow more dynamic, the need for fine-grained control over when plugins execute becomes critical. For years, the standard…
OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange fundamentally alters how services establish trust. And the API gateway is the ideal location to enforce this new model. Modern applications don’t run as a single monolithic. They are composed of services — frontend APIs, backend microservices, third-party integrations —…
Enterprise security teams have clear requirements: no static credentials, no exceptions. Every service-to-service connection, whether it's Kong talking to databases, caches, or vaults, should authenticate using the same IAM-based identity model that governs the rest of their cloud infrastructure.…
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!…
As of January 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully supported by Kong. Following this, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter a 12-month sunset support period, focused on helping customers upgrade to a current version of Kong Gateway…
Discover expanded OpenTelemetry support, full cloud-native authentication, powerful Datakit orchestrations, and PCI DSS 4.0 attestation for Kong Konnect and Cloud Gateways. As API ecosystems grow more complex, maintaining visibility and security shouldn't be a hurdle. Kong Gateway 3.13 simplifies…
With the 1.3 release , Kong is now able to natively manage and proxy gRPC services. In this blog post, we'll explain what gRPC is and how to manage your gRPC services with Kong. gRPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) framework initially developed by Google circa 2015 that has seen growing adoption…
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…
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…
Having worked with many customers and prospects at Kong, one of the main requirements we often hear is how to handle dynamic routing based on the URL and headers. In this blog post, I will cover different use cases we come across for dynamic routing and how Kong can address them. The default…
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…
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,…