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Today, we're excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.13. Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as a Long Term Support release, with support for a total of 2 years. But first, what's Kong Mesh for the uninitiated?

See how easily Konnect Metering & Billing transforms API and AI traffic management into new revenue streams. We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics. There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science project but has become a margin-bleeding cost center. But "governance" and "monetization" shouldn't just be buzzwords in a resolution; they need to be part of your active infrastructure.

The digital economy has upgraded from simple transactional interactions with users. Now consumers demand the Autonomous Digital Experience (ADE) – the customer journey is driven by predictive, self-learning systems, which is essential for competitive success. This is driven by Predictive Personalisation, which uses machine learning to predict personalised affinity and intent of user actions, delivering personalised content, products and messages in real-time.

Without a fuel gauge in your car, you'd have to rely on gut feeling to know when to fill up, and that's risky. You might end up stranded on an empty road without gas. The same principle applies to software we use every day. Embedding analytics (charts, graphs, reports and dashboards) into your app means your users can base their decisions on fast, powerful visualizations of real-time data.

When you're building agentic AI applications with multiple agents working together, the infrastructure challenges show up fast. Agents need to coordinate, users need visibility into what's happening, and the whole system needs to stay responsive even as tasks branch out across specialised workers. We built a multi-agent travel planning system to understand these problems better. What we learned applies well beyond holiday booking.

This is the fourth and final installment in our series about bringing AI to Bitrise. In Part 1, we explained why we built our own AI coding agent. Part 2 covered our browser-integrated AI Assistant. Part 3 detailed how we brought AI to the Bitrise Build Cloud. In this final post, we'll explore how we unified these efforts into a cohesive AI Platform.