Stages of software availability

A tech preview feature or version should not be deployed in a production environment.

Tech preview features are experimental. Interfaces for features in tech preview could change in backwards-incompatible ways. Do not count on the feature becoming a formal product, and expect it to change heavily if it does.

A beta feature or version should not be deployed in a production environment.

Note the following when using a beta feature or version:

• Support is not available for data recovery, rollback, or other tasks when using a beta feature or version.

General availability, or GA, means that the software is released publicly and is supported according to Kong’s . Generally available features usually have official documentation (as needed) and interfaces are stable.

If feature documentation doesn’t have a tech preview, alpha, or beta label, then the feature is generally available.

Interfaces are guaranteed to follow a semantic versioning model for any changes.