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

Often times, in response to an HTTP POST request, we need to provide an ID of a newly created entity. For instance when creating a new record in a database, much like we can have the storage return us the ID, we would like to then provide the same information in the response. There are multiple ways of doing this, but the most common one used is to provide this information as part of the response

We recently launched our brand new website in an effort to provide a simpler and cleaner interface. With the new site we also migrated the existing documentation to a new system (same one used by all our products at JetBrains), which provides us with more potential, including built-in support for compilable code-snippets, versioning, etc. New docs are in progress At the same time, we're working on

We're excited to announce the availability of Ktor 1.4.0, which also marks the first release where we've moved to Semantic Versioning. In addition to a few minor features, the release addresses a bunch of known problems and provides compatibility with Kotlin 1.4. Highlights include: Partial support for CIO (native-mt) which includes Sockets and HTTP*. Added support for Cookie Encoding Improveme