# Kong 2.0.0 released!

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-2-0-0-released/5369>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** service-mesh\
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-2-0-0-released/5369 "2020-01-21T18:48:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-2-0-0-released/5369/1 "2020-01-21T18:48:36Z")

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Hello, Kong Nation!

🎆

After a full year of development since our last major release, we are proud to announce that we have tagged Kong 2.0.0 final!

Kong 2.0 brings major new features such as **Hybrid mode** , **Go language support for plugins** and **buffered proxying** , and much more.

Kong 2.0 also removes the deprecated service mesh functionality, which was been retired in favor of [Kuma](https://kuma.io), as Kong continues to focus on its core gateway capabilities.

## Download

📦 [Download Kong 2.0.0](https://bintray.com/kong) today!

For more details about the updated installation, please visit the official docs: [https://konghq.com/install](https://konghq.com/install/).

⬆ The recommended upgrade path is detailed in the [2.0 Upgrade Path](https://github.com/Kong/kong/blob/2.0.0/UPGRADE.md#upgrade-to-200)

- ⚠ Note that Kong 2.0 drops support for migrating from Kong 0.x, it can only migrate from 1.0.0 upwards. If you’re running 0.x, you can instead migrate first to [**Kong 1.5.0**](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-1-5-0-released/5368), a new release we are announcing today alongside Kong 2.0.0 to ease the transition away from 0.x, including better compatibility with the 0.x router behavior and a migration tool for your legacy `apis` definitions.

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## What’s new in this release

- 🚀 **Major new features**

- 🦍 **Core**

- 💻 **CLI**

- 📁 **Configuration**

- ⚙ **Admin API**

- 👷‍♂️ **PDK**

- 🔌 Plugins

- 🩹 **Fixes**

- ⚠ **Removed Service Mesh support** - That has been deprecated in Kong 1.4 and made off-by-default already, and the code is now be gone in 2.0. For Service Mesh, we now have [Kuma](https://kuma.io), which is something designed for Mesh patterns from day one, so we feel at peace with removing Kong’s native Service Mesh functionality and focus on its core capabilities as a gateway.

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## Quick start for major new features

- **Hybrid mode:** to get started, please check out our [documentation](https://docs.konghq.com/2.0.x/hybrid-mode/) for the feature. It guides you step-by-step for using Kong nodes with separate Control Plane and Data Plane roles and have the Control Plane nodes manage the Kong datastore and update the DB-less Data Plane nodes.

- **Go language support:** for Go plugin support, here’s our [documentation](https://docs.konghq.com/2.0.x/go/). You can also refer to the [Go PDK reference documentation](https://godoc.org/github.com/Kong/go-pdk), as well as check out some of our [sample plugins](https://github.com/kong/go-plugins) and the [go-pluginserver](https://github.com/kong/go-pluginserver) repositories. Note that when using Kong’s binary packages for 2.0.0, Go plugins need to be built with Go 1.13.

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🗒 Here’s a link to the [2.0.0 Changelog](https://github.com/Kong/kong/blob/2.0.0/CHANGELOG.md#200).

🐋 Updated Docker images should be live soon on [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/_/kong).

Thank you all for the feedback for the past release candidates, it has been really important to make this the best release ever! 🚀

Happy Konging! 🦍