The announcement was made at API Summit 2023, the company's annual conference focusing on API innovation. A standout feature in this release is Insomnia AI, which revolutionizes API testing.

Improved API Quality: With comprehensive testing and validation features, Insomnia 10 helps ensure that APIs remain reliable and perform at their best over time.

Kong’s biggest news today is that its acquired Floating Keyboard Software, which does business as Insomnia and offers a popular open source API testing platform of the same name.

AI to transform API testing As for the new Kong Insomnia 8.0 release, this is said to be one of the most significant updates to its API development tool in quite some time.

Within the Insomnia Designer UI, users can select Kong Plugins for capabilities such as authentication or rate-limiting to govern their API’s behaviour and input it directly into their code.

Kong has announced a new managed service for running Kong Gateways so developers don’t have to worry about the underlying infrastructure.