Kong for Kubernetes, an Ingress Controller based on the Kong Gateway open-source project, offers enhanced API management capabilities and is fully integrated with Kubernetes. The latest release introduces features such as Knative integration, two new Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) called KongClusterPlugins and TCPIngress, and new annotations that simplify configuration. This allows Kong to manage Knative serverless workloads and perform ingress for various services, including those using custom protocols via TCPIngress. The introduction of KongClusterPlugins addresses plugin configuration issues by enabling cluster-level resource sharing across namespaces, which can be controlled separately from service owners. Additionally, the release supports SNI-based routing for secure TLS-encrypted TCP streams and includes significant changes such as the disabling of default path-stripping behavior and deprecations of certain annotations. Users are encouraged to upgrade and can try Kong for K8s through a free lab environment or by installing it on their own Kubernetes clusters.