Kong Gateway 3.4 introduces several significant enhancements for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect, highlighting its designation as a Long Term Support (LTS) release, ensuring technical support until 2026 for users of version 3.4.x.x. This release includes advanced features such as expanded plugin support in consumer groups, enhancing configuration management for businesses using tiered service offerings, and improved secrets rotation management, which complies with lifecycle requirements for sensitive information. Additionally, the update bolsters event-first architecture capabilities with enhanced Kafka plugins, enabling efficient data transformation and logging, and introduces support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, catering to users upgrading to this distribution. While these features enhance security, scalability, and flexibility, the release also includes a beta version of the Wasm module, which is not covered by LTS support and is not recommended for production use.