As announced in the release notes is free mode in the Kong gateway since v.3.10.0 not supported anymore. An official announcement regarding the open source version can not be found. But actually no images nor release branches can be found on docker.io/github . Questions regarding the open source v…

Ok i understood but what’s the point?

same here…and thanks for the reply.

Here is an interesting update from today [image] Uh oh! - Question about Kong Enterprise without license vs OSS · Kong kong ·... I see here in the release notes: https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/changelog/#free-mode Free mode is no longer available. Running Kong Gateway without a license…

Is Opensource support for Kong ceased

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mloskot October 8, 2025, 8:51am 2

The lack of response from the Kong maintainers is an interesting indicator.

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Is Opensource support for Kong ceased

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