As part of the many projects we are working on at JetBrains under the umbrella of the Kotlin Ecosystem, we feel that it wouldn't make sense or be of great benefit to you, our users, to have individual blogs per product/library. As such, we will be consolidating all the information under the Kotl…

We’ve been working on defining our roadmap for Ktor for 2023, and much like we did for 2022, we’d like to share our plans with you and what we have in store. One of the things we’re planning on doing this year is releasing 3.0.0. While major versions generally indicate a breaking change, most of …

We’re extremely excited to announce the release of Ktor 2.0. We have been working on this version for approximately one year and happy to finally get it out the door!  Ktor 2.0 introduces many new features, but a major version which means that there are breaking changes, it has allowed us th…

We’re one month into 2022, and on the Ktor team we’re focusing on finalizing the little that is left from our side on 2.0 and waiting for Kotlin 1.6.20 to be released so as to release 2.0. At the same time, we're planning the next things to be worked on.  As some of you know, we had publishe…

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. W…

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 P…

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, …

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 the…

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…