Kgateway v2.1 is released!

🌟 What’s new in kgateway 2.1? Agentgateway integration K8s GW API 1.3.0 and Inference Extension 1.0.0 Global policy attachment Deep merging for extauth and extproc policies Additional proxy pod template customization Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Dynamic Forward Proxy Session Affinity Enhanced retries and timeout capabilities Passive health checks with outlier detection New kgateway operations dashboard 🗑️ Deprecated or removed features Release notes Availability Thanks to our contributors! Get Involved Posted on November 18, 2025 by Nina Polshakova, Nadine Spies, & Michael Levan, Solo. io, Aryan Parashar, LFX Mentee CNCF projects highlighted in this post Kgateway is an open source implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API that unifies ingress, API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities in a singular modular control plane. Built for performance and flexibility, it secures and manages traffic across legacy, cloud native, and AI-driven workloads in any environment. We’re excited to announce the release of kgateway v2.1. , a release packed with exciting new features and improvements. Here are a few select updates the kgateway team would like to highlight! This release marks a major milestone — it’s the first version to integrate the open source project agentgateway ! Agentgateway is a highly available, highly scalable data plane that provides AI connectivity for LLMs, MCP tools, AI agents, and inference workloads. As part of this evolution, we’re beginning the deprecation of the Envoy-based AI Gateway and the Envoy-based Inference Extension, since all related functionality is now implemented natively through agentgateway. You can still continue to use Envoy-based Gateways for API Gateway use cases. For this release, agentgateway support is in beta. If you’re trying out the agentgateway GatewayClass , we recommend following the beta release feed to stay up to date with improvements, bug fixes, and breaking changes as the implementation is refined. agentgateway GatewayClass To get started with agentgateway, you simply install kgateway with the following Helm values: agentgateway : enabled : true Then you create a Gateway with the agentgateway GatewayClass as shown here: agentgateway GatewayClass kubectl apply -f- <<EOF kind : Gateway apiVersion : gateway. networking.