Exactly one year ago, we announced our plans for the upcoming year. Let's look back and see how we're doing. Focus Areas When we announced the roadmap, we focused on a few key areas that we wanted to improve. While on some of these, we've managed to deliver, on others we're not there yet. We've done a ton of work when it comes to Documentation. Our technical writer Andrey Aksenov deserves

We're happy to announce the availability of Ktor 1.6.0. This minor release brings with it some new features, deprecations, and of course more bug fixes! Features This release brings a bunch of new functionality to the client, inline with our goals to have client and server parity. Client Progress Support You can now monitor the progress of bytes sent and received in the client, allowi

As a tooling company, we do realise the importance of providing proper support for the languages and frameworks you use. In the case of Ktor, we started this journey by rewriting support for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate completely from scratch, and the first step was a new and simplified project wizard, which has already been announced. With the 1.5.3 update, we're improving the options in the wizard,

We're very excited to announce the Ktor Early Access Program, where you can get access (thus the name) to things we're working on that won't be available in the currently released version. Often times we'd like to introduce new functionality or APIs that may not be backwards compatible, and get these out to you as soon as they're ready for feedback. That's what our EAP program is about. It's impo

We're happy to announce the release of Ktor 1.5.0, which comes with new features, bug fixes, and new docs! Features 1.5.0 is the third and final release for this year, inline with our promise to have three major or minor releases a year, and a minimum of one patch release a month. We're happy to say that so far we've managed to more or less keep this promise, albeit with an ocassional delay at tim

Design in the open Ktor was created as an Open Source project and continues to remain one. During its development, feedback from the community has and continues to be fundamental, and very much appreciated. We'd like to take this to the next step by having all our design decisions in the open. The process will work as follows: Step 1 We create a ticket on YouTrack of type Design, and in it we'll l