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If you're still using an earlier version of Katalon Studio, you're likely missing out on major improvements that make everyday testing faster, easier, and more reliable. Studio 10.2.0 focuses on solving real-world problems, giving AI more context when writing test scripts, speeding up and clarifying test reports, and strengthening integrations and security for teams working at scale. Here are the top three reasons to upgrade today.

Whether you're exploring trends, uncovering outliers, or designing presentations that tell a compelling story, your insights should be connected and pervasive. It's no longer enough to simply see your data. You need a fluid, intuitive experience that empowers you to find next-level insights faster. We’re thrilled to announce ThoughtSpot’s new-and-improved visualization platform, built with integrated intelligence to empower limitless interactivity.

When you think about CI/CD costs, license fees and compute minutes probably come to mind first. But that's just part of the story—especially for mobile. The real cost? Engineering hours lost to fiddly VM maintenance, endless stack upkeep, tooling drift, and waiting on slow builds. This inefficiency hits your bottom line hard, but it's pretty tough to quantify it on a spreadsheet. That’s where the Bitrise ROI calculator comes in.

We’re proud to announce that the next version of MLRun has been released to community users. On the heels of MLRun v1.7’s focus on monitoring, MLRun v1.8 adds features to make LLM and ML evaluation and monitoring more accessible, practical and resource-efficient. New Highlights: MLRun is an open-source AI orchestration tool that provides AI practitioners with capabilities to accelerate and streamline the development, deployment and management of gen AI and ML applications.

We're continuing our efforts to make Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) the preferred way to install, upgrade, scale, and manage a Kong Gateway or Kubernetes Ingress — whether you’re managing from Kong Konnect or Kubernetes. With this latest release, we're: As ever, we’re continuously addressing issues raised by the community. You’ll find the complete list of improvements in the KGO changelog.

We're excited to introduce a major update to the Choreo CLI: support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This enhancement brings conversational AI capabilities into your development workflow, enabling you to manage your Choreo environment using natural language commands.

For data analysts and engineers, the journey from raw data to actionable business insights for business users is never as simple as it sounds. The semantic layer is a critical component in this process, serving as the bridge between complex data sources and the business logic required for informed decision-making. However, not all semantic layers are created equal, and the evolving landscape of AI-powered analytics demands a new approach.

In many enterprise organizations, particularly across public sector and regulated industries, identity and access management (IAM) are not just a best practice; it’s a mandate. From federal agencies and financial institutions to healthcare and utilities, internal IT policies often require every application to integrate with a centralized identity provider (IdP) such as Microsoft Entra ID or Okta.

Hot on the heels of Appian World, the Appian 25.2 release delivers new AI capabilities that do regular jobs with superhuman efficiency. “It’s simple, even boring. . . but gets exceptional results,” said Appian CEO and Founder, Matt Calkins, on the main stage. That’s because Appian is focused on delivering AI value, not hype. By putting AI in the center of work—in your processes—AI can have transformative effects that go beyond one-off projects or personal productivity.

In the fast-paced world of modern software development, performance is no longer just a backend concern—it's a critical driver of user satisfaction, infrastructure cost, and business growth. At NodeSource, we're excited to unveil a new feature in the N|Solid platform that takes Node.js application performance to a new level: N|Sentinel.