Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Katalon Studio 10.3 delivers a powerful set of enhancements designed to improve test automation efficiency, resilience, and reporting clarity. From mobile self-healing to a revamped email report template, this release is all about giving QA engineers smarter tools for faster, more reliable testing.

Software is now the front door of your business, and when it fails, revenue and trust are on the line. Yet quality assurance is still too often treated as a cost center instead of a growth driver. The AI mandate is raising the stakes: boards expect faster delivery through AI and low-code, but that speed creates more complexity to test. Most QA teams still rely on manual processes, leaving quality as the bottleneck.

Third-party recognition is always a significant milestone, but being included across multiple categories by a leading research firm like Gartner? That's definitely worth celebrating. Kong has been featured in eight different categories across six Gartner hype cycles for 2025*— our most comprehensive inclusion to date. This recognition spans the entire gamut of API platform capabilities: from API observability to vertical-specific healthcare solutions.

Tobiko brings advanced, multi-engine transformation into the Fivetran platform — powered by robust open source technology and designed to deliver faster, more flexible data workflows for analytics, operations, and AI.

Today, we’re announcing that Kong has acquired OpenMeter, the open source and SaaS leader for real-time usage metering and billing. OpenMeter’s capabilities will be integrated into Kong Konnect, enabling usage-based pricing, entitlements, and invoicing for APIs, events, and AI workloads. This is a huge milestone for Kong, and we’re excited about what this means for our customers and the future of how you build and scale revenue-generating digital products for the agentic AI era.

We’re excited to announce the release of N|Solid Runtime v6.0.0, the latest evolution of our Node.js runtime and monitoring platform. This release delivers major upgrades to performance monitoring, SaaS connectivity, and Node.js compatibility, ensuring that teams running business-critical applications get the insights, reliability, and efficiency they need at scale.

With vibe coding, you can build complex applications using powerful AI tools that offer a conversational experience, letting AI handle the heavy lifting. But what happens after you've built your app? You might have a three-tier web application connected to a database running locally, but taking it live—ensuring it’s connected, secure, and production-ready—can be a complex process that disrupts your flow. What if deploying your app was just as easy as building it?