# Kong 2.2.0-rc.1 available

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-2-2-0-rc-1-available/7319>\
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**Created:** [October 20, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-2-2-0-rc-1-available/7319 "2020-10-20T22:07:11Z")\
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Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce the release candidate for Kong 2.2!

This includes all fixes and adjustments made since we entered feature freeze with  
Kong 2.2.0-beta.1, and as such there are no new features over that release, and  
of course no breaking changes with respect to the 2.x series.

If no serious issues are reported, this release will effectively be promoted to  
the stable 2.2.0 release, so **this** is now the best time to test the new features and  
report any issues!

## What’s New Since 2.2.0-beta.1

Here’s a summary of the fixes added since the beta release:

- Admin API
  - new operation PATCH for Targets new returns HTTP 200 instead of HTTP 204,  
matching the behavior of other entities
  - The new endpoint for obtaining a global view of Data Plane nodes in hybrid  
mode was renamed from `/clustering/data_planes` to `/clustering/data-planes`
  - The old endpoint `/clustering/status` which gave only a node-local view,  
which had been removed in the beta, was restored to avoid a breaking change,  
and is now marked as deprecated.

- Migrations
  - Improved the error handling for migrations between 2.1.3 and 2.2.0
  - Added a deprecation note to the “migration helpers” module, which was never a  
fully documented API

## Download

Please note that the download locations for prereleases are kept separate from the final release locations:

- 📦 You can download [packages](https://bintray.com/kong/kong-prerelease)
- 🐳 or use the unofficial [kong/kong](https://hub.docker.com/r/kong/kong/tags?page=1&name=2.2.0) docker repository

🗒 More details and PR links are available at the [2.2.0 Changelog](https://github.com/Kong/kong/blob/2.2.0-rc.1/CHANGELOG.md#220-rc1).

## Feedback welcome!

Again, we encourage you to try the release candidate and report any issues in [Kong’s Github repo](https://github.com/kong/kong). Feedback is extremely welcome!

Happy Konging!