## Kong




### Deprecations
#### Core

- `node_id` in configuration has been deprecated.
 [#13687](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13687)
 [FTI-6221](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6221)

### Dependencies
#### Core

- Bumped lua-kong-nginx-module from 0.11.0 to 0.11.1 to fix an issue where the upstream cert chain wasn't properly set.
 [#12752](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12752)
 [KAG-4050](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-4050)

- Bumped lua-resty-events to 0.3.1. Optimized the memory usage.
 [#13097](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13097)
 [KAG-4480](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-4480) [KAG-4586](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-4586)

- Bumped lua-resty-lmdb to 1.6.0. Allowing page_size to be 1.
 [#13908](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13908)
 [KAG-5875](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5875)

- Bumped lua-resty-lmdb to 1.5.0. Added page_size parameter to allow overriding page size from caller side.
 [#12786](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12786)

#### Default

- Kong Gateway now supports Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) with both open-source and Enterprise packages.
 [#13626](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13626)
 [KAG-4672](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-4672)

- Bumped rpm dockerfile default base UBI 8 -> 9
 [#13574](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13574)

- Bumped lua-resty-aws to 1.5.4 to fix a bug inside region prefix generation.
 [#12846](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12846)
 [KAG-3424](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3424) [FTI-5732](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5732)

- Bumped lua-resty-ljsonschema to 1.2.0, adding support for `null` as a valid option in `enum` types and properly calculation of utf8 string length instead of byte count
 [#13783](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13783)
 [FTI-5870](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5870) [FTI-6171](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6171)

- Bumped `ngx_wasm_module` to `9136e463a6f1d80755ce66c88c3ddecd0eb5e25d`
 [#12011](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12011)


- Bumped `Wasmtime` version to `26.0.0`
 [#12011](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12011)

- Bumped OpenSSL to 3.2.3 to fix unbounded memory growth with session handling in TLSv1.3 and other CVEs.
 [#13448](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13448)
 [KAG-5075](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5075)

- **Wasm**: Removed the experimental datakit Wasm filter
 [#14012](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/14012)
 [KAG-6021](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-6021)

### Features
#### CLI Command
- Added the `kong drain` CLI command to make the `/status/ready` endpoint return a `503 Service Unavailable` response.
 [#13838](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13838)
 [FTI-6276](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6276)
#### Core

- Added a new feature for Kong Manager that supports multiple domains, enabling dynamic cross-origin access for Admin API requests.
 [#13664](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13664)

- Added an ADA dependency: WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser.
 [#13120](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13120)
 [KAG-5106](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5106)

- Addded a new LLM driver for interfacing with the Hugging Face inference API.
The driver supports both serverless and dedicated LLM instances hosted by
Hugging Face for conversational and text generation tasks.
 [#13484](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13484)


- Increased the priority order of the correlation id to 100001 from 1 so that the plugin can be used
with other plugins especially custom auth plugins.
 [#13581](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13581)

- Added a `tls.disable_http2_alpn()` function patch for disabling HTTP/2 ALPN when performing a TLS handshake.
 [#13709](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13709)


- Improved the output of the request debugger:
  - The resolution of field `total_time` is now in microseconds.
  - A new field, `total_time_without_upstream`,  shows the latency only introduced by Kong.
 [#13460](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13460)
 [KAG-4733](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-4733) [FTI-5989](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5989)
- **proxy-wasm**: Added support for Wasm filters to be configured via the `/plugins` Admin API.
 [#13843](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13843)
 [KAG-5616](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5616)
#### PDK

- Added `kong.service.request.clear_query_arg(name)` to PDK.
 [#13619](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13619)
 [KAG-5238](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5238)

- Array and Map type span attributes are now supported by the tracing PDK
 [#13818](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13818)
 [KAG-5162](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5162)
#### Plugin
- **Prometheus**: Increased the upper limit of `KONG_LATENCY_BUCKETS` to 6000 to enhance latency tracking precision.
 [#13588](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13588)
 [FTI-5990](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5990)

- **ai-proxy**: Disabled HTTP/2 ALPN handshake for connections on routes configured with AI-proxy.
 [#13735](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13735)

- **Redirect**: Added a new plugin to redirect requests to another location.
 [#13900](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13900)


- **Prometheus**: Added support for Proxy-Wasm metrics.
 [#13681](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13681)

#### Admin API
- **Admin API**: Added support for official YAML media-type (`application/yaml`) to the `/config` endpoint.
 [#13713](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13713)
 [KAG-5474](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5474)
#### Clustering

- Added a remote procedure call (RPC) framework for Hybrid mode deployments.
 [#12320](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/12320)
 [KAG-623](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-623) [KAG-3751](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-3751)

### Fixes
#### Core

- Fixed an issue where the `ngx.balancer.recreate_request` API did not refresh the body buffer when `ngx.req.set_body_data` is used in the balancer phase.
 [#13882](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13882)
 [KAG-5821](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5821)

- Fix to always pass `ngx.ctx` to `log_init_worker_errors` as otherwise it may runtime crash.
 [#13731](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13731)

- Fixed an issue where the workspace ID was not included in the plugin config in the plugins iterator.
 [#13377](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13377)

- Fixed an issue where the workspace id was not included in the plugin config in the plugins iterator.
 [#13872](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13872)
 [FTI-6200](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6200)

- Fixed a 500 error triggered by unhandled nil fields during schema validation.
 [#13861](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13861)
 [FTI-6336](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6336)

- **Vault**: Fixed an issue where array-like configuration fields cannot contain vault reference.
 [#13953](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13953)
 [FTI-6163](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6163)

- **Vault**: Fixed an issue where updating a vault entity in a non-default workspace wouldn't take effect.
 [#13610](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13610)
 [FTI-6152](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6152)

- **Vault**: Fixed an issue where vault reference in kong configuration cannot be dereferenced when both http and stream subsystems are enabled.
 [#13953](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13953)
 [FTI-6163](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6163)

- **proxy-wasm:** Added a check that prevents Kong from starting when the
database contains invalid Wasm filters.
 [#13764](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13764)
 [KAG-2636](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-2636)

- Fixed an issue where the `kong.request.enable_buffering` couldn't be used when the downstream used HTTP/2.
 [#13614](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13614)
 [FTI-5725](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-5725)
#### PDK

- Lined up the `kong.log.inspect` function to log at `notice` level as documented
 [#13642](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13642)
 [FTI-6215](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6215)

- Fix error message for invalid retries variable
 [#13605](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13605)

#### Plugin

- **ai-proxy**: Fixed a bug where tools (function) calls to Anthropic would return empty results.
 [#13760](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13760)


- **ai-proxy**: Fixed a bug where tools (function) calls to Bedrock would return empty results.
 [#13760](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13760)


- **ai-proxy**: Fixed a bug where Bedrock Guardrail config was ignored.
 [#13760](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13760)


- **ai-proxy**: Fixed a bug where tools (function) calls to Cohere would return empty results.
 [#13760](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13760)


- **ai-proxy**: Fixed a bug where Gemini provider would return an error if content safety failed in AI Proxy.
 [#13760](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13760)


- **ai-proxy**: Fixed a bug where tools (function) calls to Gemini (or via Vertex) would return empty results.
 [#13760](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13760)


- **ai-proxy**: Fixed an issue where AI Transformer plugins always returned a 404 error when using 'Google One' Gemini subscriptions.
 [#13703](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13703)


- **ai-transformers**: Fixed a bug where the correct LLM error message was not propagated to the caller.
 [#13703](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13703)

- **AI-Proxy**: Fixed an issue where multi-modal requests were blocked on the Azure AI provider.
 [#13702](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13702)


- Fixed an bug that AI semantic cache can't use request provided models
 [#13627](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13627)

- **AWS-Lambda**: Fixed an issue in proxy integration mode that caused an internal server error when the `multiValueHeaders` was null.
 [#13533](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13533)
 [FTI-6168](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6168)

- **jwt**: ensure `rsa_public_key` isn't base64-decoded.
 [#13717](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13717)

- **key-auth**: Fixed an issue with the order of query arguments, ensuring that arguments retain order when hiding the credentials.
 [#13619](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13619)
 [KAG-5238](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5238)

- **rate-limiting**: Fixed a bug where the returned values from `get_redis_connection()` were incorrect.
 [#13613](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13613)

- **rate-limiting**: Fixed an issue that caused an HTTP 500 error when `hide_client_headers` was set to `true` and the request exceeded the rate limit.
 [#13722](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13722)
 [KAG-5492](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5492)
#### Admin API

- Fix for querying admin API entities with empty tags
 [#13723](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13723)
 [KAG-5496](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/KAG-5496)

- Fixed an issue where nested parameters couldn't be parsed correctly when using `form-urlencoded` requests.
 [#13668](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13668)
 [FTI-6165](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6165)
#### Clustering

- **Clustering**: Adjusted error log levels for control plane connections.
 [#13863](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13863)
 [FTI-6238](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6238)
#### Default

- **Loggly**: Fixed an issue where `/bin/hostname` missing caused an error warning on startup.
 [#13788](https://github.com/Kong/kong/issues/13788)
 [FTI-6046](https://konghq.atlassian.net/browse/FTI-6046)

## Kong-Manager

### Fixes
#### Default

- Kong Manager will now hide the scope change field when creating/editing a scoped plugin from another entity.
 [#297](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/297)


- Improved the user experience in Kong Manager by fixing various UI-related issues.
 [#277](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/277) [#283](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/283) [#286](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/286) [#287](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/287) [#288](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/288) [#291](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/291) [#293](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/293) [#295](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/295) [#298](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/298) [#302](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/302) [#304](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/304) [#306](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/306) [#309](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/309) [#317](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/317) [#319](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/319) [#322](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/322) [#325](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/325) [#329](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/329) [#330](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/330)


- Unified the redirection logic in Kong Manager upon entity operations.
 [#289](https://github.com/Kong/kong-manager/issues/289)

