KrakenD EE v2.11: New AI integrations and Conditional Routing

The new version EE v2.11 brings native AI Gateway integrations with AI providers such as OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic (Claude), and Mistral. While using these vendors was already possible, we have reduced the amount of configuration needed. Alongside this, a new Conditional Routing component allows dynamic request routing and aggregation based on request data, greatly enhancing API orchestration flexibility.

AI Gateway integrations

The OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic (Claude), and Mistral integrations let you embed powerful AI-driven capabilities inside your APIs with minimal configuration. Features such as authentication and facilitation of the Prompt Template are now included.

The namespace ai/llm simplifies communication with several AI providers and maintains control over vendor versioning, as each vendor requires a unique payload and communication style.

Read more about the new simpler LLM integrations

Conditional Routing: Smarter Backend Traffic Control

This release introduces a brand-new Conditional Routing for AI and non-AI, allowing you to dynamically route requests across multiple backends based on request content or metadata. This allows crafting sophisticated API workflows and fine-grained traffic distribution without external proxies or custom security policies.

Security & Protocol Enhancements

The automatic AWS SigV4 signing support for backend service requests enhances security and integration with AWS services.

In addition, OpenAPI improvements include an import merger resolving spec collisions, richer support for parameter examples, and enhanced security schemes, simplifying API schema management and compatibility.

Everything else in the open source

The Enterprise version brings a lot of features that were included in the release of the Community Edition, such as the AMQP component modernization, JWT validation improvements, HTTP client & observability upgrades, and more.

Important Infrastructure Updates

If you are operating on Debian 11 Bullseye or older versions (2021 and back), or Ubuntu 21.10 and older, you must upgrade OS versions to install this version. The underlying reason is that the newer versions of Go present glibc incompatibilities, and we must offer the latest security patches.