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MARCH 2026
Kong Simplifies Multicloud Cloud Gateways with Managed Redis Cache
Managed Redis cache is a turnkey "Shared State" add-on for Kong Dedicated Cloud Gateways. It is designed to combine the…
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Kong Insomnia 12.4: Better Tabs, Clearer Commits, Smarter Admin
We've been all ears. Your workflows clearly told us what mattered most: tabs that adapt to how you actually work, Git…
Read MoreFEBRUARY 2026
From APIs to Agentic Integration: Introducing Kong Context Mesh
Agents are ultimately decision makers. They make those decisions by combining intelligence with context, ultimately…
Read MoreAnnouncing Kong Operator 2.1
With Kong Ingress Controller, when your Control Plane was hosted in Kong Konnect, and you were using Kubernetes Gateway…
Read MoreKong Insomnia
Migrate from Postman to Insomnia: Free Collaboration for Unlimited Users
This isn’t just about one pricing change. It’s about a pattern. Some tools promise “free forever” to get you invested,…
Read MoreKong Konnect
Kong MCP Registry: Connect AI Agents with the Right Tools
The Kong MCP Registry acts as a central directory for AI agents and clients to access services that provide context or…
Read MoreJANUARY 2026
Kong Mesh
Kong Mesh 2.13: Mesh Identity Support for Universal Mode & LTS
Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as…
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From Strategy to Action: See Konnect Metering & Billing in Motion
We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics . There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where…
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KAi Just Got a Major Upgrade, Powered by the New Kong Konnect MCP Server
If you've used KAi before, you'll notice the difference immediately. The enhanced version has deeper access to your…
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Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9.x.x EOL
As of January 2026, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.9 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully…
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Easy as 1-2-3: Kong Insomnia’s New Year Sprint to Better Workflows with v12.3
Kong Insomnia 12.3 TL;DR? Your New Year’s resolution is probably something along the lines of “work smarter, not…
Read MoreIntroducing MCP Tool ACLs: Fine-Grained Authorization for AI Agent Tools
The evolution of AI agents and autonomous systems has created new challenges for enterprise organizations. While…
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New Year, New Unit Economics: Konnect Metering & Billing Is Here
Every January, the same resolutions show up: eat better, exercise more, finally learn that language, finally figure out…
Read MoreDECEMBER 2025
Kong Gateway Enterprise
Expanded Observability, Orchestration, and Security with Kong Gateway 3.13
As API ecosystems grow more complex, maintaining visibility and security shouldn't be a hurdle. Kong Gateway 3.13…
Read MoreKong Konnect
An Early Christmas Present for the AI C-Suite: Metering & Billing Comes to Kong Konnect
The AI boom has a dirty secret: for most enterprises, it's bleeding money. Every LLM call, every agent invocation,…
Read MoreMove More Agentic Workloads to Production with AI Gateway 3.13
We know that successful AI connectivity programs often start with an intense focus on how you govern and protect LLM…
Read MoreKong Cloud Gateways: A Year in Review
Kong Cloud Gateways are fully managed, high-performance data planes running on customer-dedicated infrastructure,…
Read MoreNOVEMBER 2025
Kong Insomnia
Introducing Kong Insomnia 12
Before we jump in… When you’re building an MCP server that provides tools, resources, or prompts that AI agents can…
Read MoreOCTOBER 2025
Introducing kongctl
Built for developers We’ve taken the best parts of Terraform, deck, the AWS CLI, and more of your favorite tools and…
Read MoreIntroducing the Volcano SDK to Build AI Agents in a Few Lines of Code
Today, we're open-sourcing Volcano SDK, a TypeScript SDK for building AI agents that combines LLM reasoning with…
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New MCP Support Across the Entire Konnect Platform
Data might be the fuel for AI. But APIs are the proper way to package that “fuel” as AI-ready “food” is through the…
Read MoreMake MCP Production-Ready: Introducing Kong’s Enterprise MCP Gateway
The solution landscape is complicated by the fact that MCP is still finding its footing, and there are many various OSS…
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Liabilities into Assets: Konnect Metering & Billing, Powered by OpenMeter
Picture this: you’ve spent months building a slick API that developers love, and it’s already humming behind the scenes…
Read MoreKong Insomnia
Can You Trust What You’re Shipping? You Will with Insomnia v12
Building trust starts with small things, like making sure every commit tells the right story. That’s where Insomnia’s…
Read MoreKong Konnect
Datakit Flow Editor: A Visual Approach to API Orchestration
Different teams, different preferences API orchestration at the gateway layer can involve coordinating multiple…
Read MoreAnnouncing Kong Operator 2.0
Simplified controller configuration When using the Kong Ingress Controller, a significant amount of effort was needed…
Read MoreSEPTEMBER 2025
Kong Gateway Enterprise
Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8.x.x EOL
As of September 2025, Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.8 will enter its End Of Life (EOL) phase and will no longer be fully…
Read MoreKong Mesh 2.12: SPIFFE/SPIRE Support and Consistent XDS Resource Names
We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE…
Read MoreBuilding a First-Class Kubernetes Experience in Kong Konnect
To unlock Kubernetes’ full potential, many enterprises are relying on three key building blocks available in Kong…
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Multi-Cloud API and AI Infra Gets Smarter: Managed Redis for Kong DCGW
Modern enterprises are embracing multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, and ensure resilience.…
Read MoreAUGUST 2025
Kong Konnect
Announcing terraform-provider-konnect v3
It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000…
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Custom Dashboards in Konnect Analytics Now Generally Available
If you build APIs, you’ve probably been in two kinds of conversations. One is the war room, where the team is chasing a…
Read MoreJULY 2025
Kong Konnect
Introducing Konnect Debugger: Get Unprecedented API Traffic Visibility
We're excited to announce the general availability of Konnect Debugger, formerly known as Active Tracing during its…
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Announcing Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.5
We're happy to announce the 3.5 release of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC). This release includes the graduation of…
Read MoreKong Mesh
Announcing Mesh Manager Support in Konnect Terraform Provider
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It allows users to define and provision data…
Read MoreKong AI Gateway 3.11: Reduce Token Spend, Unlock Multimodal Innovation
Today, I'm excited to announce one of our largest Kong AI Gateway releases (3.11), which ships with several new…
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Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 Makes APIs & Event Streams More Powerful
We’re excited to bring you Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 with compelling new features to make your APIs and event…
Read MoreKong Konnect
Address Both Sides of API Discovery with Konnect’s Holistic Experience
When we released the beta version of Service Catalog last September, it was in service of a greater API discovery…
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Create an Internal API and Service Inventory with Konnect Service Catalog
When speaking with our customers, and particularly with platform teams, we repeatedly hear about how difficult it is to…
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Kong's New Developer Portal: Modern UX Meets Developer Self-Service
We just GA’d the new Kong Konnect Developer Portal as part of our broader API discovery initiative , and it represents…
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Build Reuse into Your API Program with Konnect Dev Portal
In March, we announced the public beta version of our reimagined Dev Portal. We set out to fully address the needs of…
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Kong Service Catalog: The Producer Side of API Discovery
In case you missed it, we recently GA’d Kong Service Catalog as part of our broader API discovery initiative . While…
Read MoreJUNE 2025
Kong Konnect
Kong Konnect: Introducing HashiCorp Vault Support for LLMs
If you're a builder, you likely keep sending your LLM credentials on every request from your agents and applications.…
Read MoreKong Mesh
Kong Mesh 2.11: Reduced Privileges, Improved Support for AWS ECS
We’re at it again, bringing more incremental improvements to Kong Mesh! Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh brings…
Read MoreKong's Dedicated Cloud Gateways: A Deep Dive
Why switch to Dedicated Cloud Gateways? Well, the drivers for moving to managed cloud gateways are simple enough, as…
Read MoreKong Gateway Operator 1.6: Improved Support for Konnect and AWS Transit Gateways
We're continuing our efforts to make Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) the preferred way to install, upgrade, scale, and…
Read MoreMAY 2025
Kong Konnect
Kong AI Manager: Govern & Observe Agentic Traffic to Thousands of LLMs
Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of AI Manager in Kong Konnect, the platform to manage all of…
Read MoreKong Event Gateway: Unifying APIs and Events in a Single API Platform
Kong customers include some of the most forward-thinking, tech-savvy organizations in the world. And while we’re proud…
Read MoreAPRIL 2025
Securing, Observing, and Governing MCP Servers with Kong AI Gateway
The explosion of AI-native applications is upon us. With each new week, massive innovations are being made in how…
Read MoreKong Konnect
New Enhancements to Konnect to Fuel API-Driven Innovation
APIs are the lifeblood of disruption . . . when leveraged correctly. The best, most disruptive businesses are able to…
Read MoreKong Gateway
Enhance AI Governance with Kong AI Gateway 3.10
Today, we’re excited to unveil Kong AI Gateway 3.10! This release introduces new functionality to enhance AI…
Read MoreKong Konnect
Introducing Kong's New MCP Server to Access Your API System of Record
MCP is a new way to integrate LLMs and AI agents with third-party data sources and APIs. It significantly improves how…
Read MoreKong Gateway
Kong Gateway Operator 1.5: Better Together with Konnect
Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) is the most effective way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or…
Read MoreMARCH 2025
Kong Gateway Enterprise
Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.10: Advanced Kafka Support, Data Orchestration, & More
Today, we're pleased to announce Kong Gateway 3.10, our next Long-Term Support (LTS) version. This LTS version will be…
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