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Supported Gateway Topologies
hybrid db-less traditional
Supported Konnect Deployments
hybrid cloud-gateways serverless
Compatible Protocols
grpc grpcs http https
Minimum Version
Kong Gateway - 3.12
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3.14.0.0

Release date 2026/04/07

Feature

  • Added support for ACL with OAuth claim.

  • Added support for session sharing and active notice when doing MCP conversion.

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where the latest 2025-11-25 spec defines the Authorization error codes which are different from ours.

  • Fixed an issue where ACL denial caused parsing body failure.

  • Fixed an issue where the ACL metric label value was incorrect.

  • Fixed an issue where tools/list could expose tools to consumers denied by tool ACL in listener mode.

  • Fixed an issue where we didn’t keep the port after MCP conversion.

  • Fixed an issue where we have not reported metrics to konnect since 3.13.

  • Fixed an issue where PATCHing the tool caused an error.

Performance

  • reduced tool cache build time and avoided long blocking.

3.13.0.1

Release date 2026/02/01

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where tools/list could expose tools to consumers denied by tool ACL in listener mode.

  • Fixed an issue where PATCHing the tool caused an error.

3.13.0.0

Release date 2025/12/18

Feature

  • Added support for MCP ACL control.

  • Added support for cookie in OpenAPI spec when doing MCP conversion.

  • Added support for structured output from MCP conversion.

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where path traversal can be done with path parameter.

  • Fixed an issue where MCP server could not call upstream when proxy protocol is used.

  • Fixed an issue where failing to fetch tools cache was not handled properly.

  • Fixed an issue where forwarding client headers to upstream could not be disabled.

  • Fixed an issue where trusted ip relative headers were forwarded upstream.

  • Fixed an issue where tools/call could accept malformed requests and generate wrong responses.

  • Fixed an issue where path invalid error was not handled properly.

  • Fixed an issue where we could not override the upstream’s scheme when converting MCP tool to RESTful API.

  • Fixed an issue where MCP server could not call upstream when self-signed certificate is used in Kong.

  • Fixed an issue where mcp proxy is not parsing default values properly.

  • Fixed an issue when using passthrough-mode, tools without tool ACL do not apply default ACL.

3.12.0.3

Release date 2026/02/26

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where path traversal can be done with path parameter.

  • Fixed an issue where PATCHing the tool caused an error.

3.12.0.2

Release date 2025/12/10

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where failing to fetch tools cache was not handled properly.

  • Fixed an issue where trusted ip relative headers were forwarded upstream.

  • Fixed an issue where tools/call could accept malformed requests and generate wrong responses.

  • Fixed an issue where path invalid error was not handled properly.

  • Fixed an issue where we could not override the upstream’s scheme when converting MCP tool to RESTful API.

3.12.0.1

Release date 2025/11/18

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where MCP server could not call upstream when proxy protocol is used.

  • Fixed an issue where forwarding client headers to upstream could not be disabled.

  • Fixed an issue where MCP server could not call upstream when self-signed certificate is used in Kong.

3.12.0.0

Release date 2025/10/01

Feature

  • The plugin now forwards client headers when calling the tool.

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