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We’re excited to share that self-serviceable continuous deployment (CD) pipelines are now generally available in Choreo. This feature builds on Choreo’s multi-environment, multi-cluster capabilities and gives platform teams even greater control over deployment workflows.

RAG and Agentic AI shape how intelligent systems interact with data and users. RAG enhances LLMs by retrieving external information to improve accuracy and contextual relevance, while Agentic AI introduces autonomy, decision-making, and adaptability into AI-driven workflows. Agentic RAG combines the power of both, transforming RAG into a multi-step, autonomous, complex process that can self-improve.

For our first Release in 2025, we have cooked up more precise performance insights for you and can now, with Automatic Bottleneck Detection, serve you bottlenecks on a silver platter including recipes on how to fix them. Work on several improvements, like Native Worker Support in the PHP Extension, has kept us busy over the winter. A series of instrumentation improvements has chased away the winter blues and is now making way for a spring full of user-friendliness.

The latest version of Kong Mesh brings an improved provisioning experience and streamlined management of policies — plus user interface enhancements to elevate your experience deploying and managing Kong Mesh. Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh is a service mesh designed to provide security, observability, and traffic control across modern, distributed applications.

On March 3, 2025, we released version 25.03 of our product analytics platform, delivering a focused set of updates that refine how we handle data, improve our user interface, and expand compatibility with cutting-edge technologies. While our major new functionality—Journeys and Content Builder—was already introduced in a separate article (read it here), this release brings additional enhancements worth exploring.

DreamFactory is back with a game-changing update—DreamFactory v7! This release introduces powerful new capabilities, improved performance, and enhanced security, ensuring that developers and businesses can manage their APIs more efficiently than ever.

At Confluent, we’re committed to building the world's leading data streaming platform, which gives you the ability to stream, connect, process, and govern all of your data, and make it available wherever it’s needed—however it’s needed—in real time. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 7.9! This release builds upon Apache Kafka 3.9, reinforcing our core capabilities as a data streaming platform.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Insomnia 11! This release introduces third-party vault integrations for enhanced security, an all-new Git sync experience for more seamless collaboration, and support for multi-tabs to improve efficiency within the Insomnia application. Keep reading to learn more.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

We're thrilled to announce the tech preview of Active Tracing, a significant advancement in Kong Konnect. This innovative feature unlocks unparalleled visibility into API traffic as it flows through Kong Gateway, empowering you to optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and refine your API strategies.