Issues

• AIGatewayMCPServer: tools[].requestBody is map[string]string but Konnect requires content as an object, so POST bodies cannot be declared

  Kong/kong-operator#6252 · Filter by author mtritab opened on Oct 22, 2026

• Support direct KongCertificate references for Listener TLS and upstream mTLS

  Kong/kong-operator#6232 · Filter by author tao12345666333 opened on Oct 22, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• AI Gateway 2.0 on prem - semantic balancer config is not converted for ai-proxy-advanced

  area/ai-gatewaybug
  Kong/kong-operator#6231 · Filter by author bcollard opened on Oct 22, 2026

• AI Gateway 2.0 on prem: surface model-alias routing conflicts per-entity instead of failing the whole config push

  Kong/kong-operator#6226 · Filter by author WeichengWang1 opened on Oct 22, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• konnect: check serverURL against the Konnect domains

  area/konnect
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6214 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 21, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• Flaky AIGateway e2e auth-strategy-openid-connect

  test-flake
  Kong/kong-operator#6163 · Filter by author WeichengWang1 opened on Oct 19, 2026

• eventgateway: support declarative policy-chain ordering

  Kong/kong-operator#6158 · Filter by author tao12345666333 opened on Oct 19, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• DataPlane preStop hook fails on distroless Kong images (/bin/sh not found), so pods get no graceful shutdown

  bug
  Kong/kong-operator#6146 · Filter by author justindavies opened on Oct 16, 2026
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• AI Gateway 2.0 on prem - derive on-prem AI Gateway MinRuntimeVersion from the actual data plane version

  Kong/kong-operator#6120 · Filter by author pmalek opened on Oct 14, 2026

• test(konnect): verify the operator in a cluster inside the VPC over a private serverURL

  area/konnectarea/tests
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6111 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• konnect: support Dedicated Cloud Gateways over PrivateLink

  area/konnectarea/managed-gateways
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6110 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• docs: document Kong Operator over PrivateLink

  area/docs
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6109 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: report a private serverURL with a condition

  area/konnect
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6107 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• konnect: fail closed on a private endpoint value that cannot be used

  area/konnectarea/konnect-DPs
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6106 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• aigateway: render control plane and telemetry endpoints that carry a path

  area/ai-gateway
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6105 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• ☔ Konnect PrivateLink support

  epic
  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6103 · Filter by author matteogastaldello opened on Oct 14, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• On-prem gateway: add tags to translated entities from annotations konghq.com/tags of parent gateways and gateway classes

  Kong/kong-operator#6079 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Oct 13, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• Tags in annotation konghq.com/tags` of gateways are added in the entities translated from attached routes

  Kong/kong-operator#6078 · Filter by author randmonkey opened on Oct 13, 2026

• eventgateway: report resources that cannot reach a gateway

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6065 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: push the configuration to every gw-admin pod

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6064 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: add listeners and their policies to the document

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6062 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: add virtual clusters and their policies to the document

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6061 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: add schema registries and TLS trust bundles to the document

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6060 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: build the gateway configuration document

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6059 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x
  

• eventgateway: look up event gateway resources by gateway, parent and Secret

  Task

  Kong/kong-operator#6058 · Filter by author alacuku opened on Oct 12, 2026 · KO v2.4.x