ktorio/ktor 3.4.0

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Published 22 January 2026

Features

• KTOR-8316 Support OpenAPI specification for the Ktor Client and Server Application
  • KTOR-9085 Read OpenAPI security details from authentication plugin
  • KTOR-8993 Use runtime-generated spec for OpenAPI / Swagger plugins
  • KTOR-9086 Read OpenAPI default content type information from ContentNegotiation plugin
  • KTOR-8859 Routing documentation compiler plugin
  • KTOR-8936 Routing documentation runtime API
  • KTOR-9087 Generate JSON schema for type references when using Jackson and Gson
• KTOR-7075 Zstd support
• KTOR-9209 Support Jackson 3
• KTOR-9198 Auth/Bearer: Make BearerAuthProvider detect disguised Bearer scheme
• KTOR-8927 Support for respondResource
• KTOR-9162 Auth API key plugin
• KTOR-7882 Support HTTP QUERY method
• KTOR-8195 Partial HTML response
• KTOR-8985 EngineMain: Support reading trust store settings from the configuration
• KTOR-9066 Add duplex streaming for OkHttpClient
• KTOR-8180 Auth: Provide control over tokens to user code
• KTOR-8273 iOS native interop for WebRTC client
• KTOR-8956 DI: Allow file configuration
• KTOR-9157 Support SIGINT on web and SIGTERM on Native

Improvements

• KTOR-8890 Rename target jsAndWasmShared to web
• KTOR-9242 Upgrade to Kotlin 2.3
• KTOR-9243 Update libcurl to 8.18.0
• KTOR-9014 Deprecate DarwinLegacy engine
• KTOR-8931 Test iOS target of the WebRTC Client in Ktor-Chat
• KTOR-9199 Make HttpHeaders strings const
• KTOR-9208 Expose plusIsSpace in parseUrlEncodedParameters
• KTOR-2404 Ktor Oauth2 feature sends 401 response when the client secret is invalid
• KTOR-9097 Java: Use HTTP/2 by default
• KTOR-8740 HTMX: Missing DSL for some attributes
• KTOR-9171 Redesign ByteReadChannel.readUTF8Line API
• KTOR-4219 Make readUTF8LineTo return number of read symbols instead of boolean
• KTOR-6761 Apache5: Simplify configuration of ConnectionManager
• KTOR-9037 Multipart/form-data: Make formData's block inline
• KTOR-9126 Missing function ByteReadChannel.readTo(sink: RawSink, byteCount: Long)
• KTOR-9026 Introduce/reuse interfaces for logging selectors
• KTOR-6766 Deprecate Apache 4 engine
• KTOR-8642 Excessive memory allocations while writing bytes into write channel of TCP/IP socket
• KTOR-9137 ByteReadChannel.readUTF8Line is inefficient for long lines
• KTOR-8657 Remove kotlinx-datetime from ktor-server-default-headers dependencies
• KTOR-8941 Add override DI conflict policy

Bugfixes

• KTOR-9258 headers { } block does not affect the request in defaultRequest due to function name collision with io.ktor.http.headers
• KTOR-9235 HttpCookies: Support parsing non-compilant Expires dates of Set-Cookie header
• KTOR-8945 ByteReadChannel.readUTF8Line doesn't throw TooLongLineException when the limit is reached
• KTOR-8339 Curl: caPath is not set by default in the Curl client on linuxArm64
• KTOR-9188 WebRTC. IceServer.urls should be a list.
• KTOR-9148 Logging: Body logging of multipart/form-data requests hangs when OkHttp format is on
• KTOR-9166 CORS: Excessive logs on INFO level since 3.3.3
• KTOR-9130 Missing implementation of getPluginId method error with Kotlin 2.3.0-RC
• KTOR-9147 OpenAPI: "AssertionError: Cannot add a performance measurements" leading to StackOverflowError within a multimodule project
• KTOR-2162 JettyKtorHandler executor will never grow beyond core size
• KTOR-9201 audio/x-matroska is wrongly recognized as mkv type
• KTOR-9146 Run HttpStatement.execute on the engine's dispatcher
• KTOR-6300 Native engines should use Dispatchers.IO not Dispatchers.Unconfined
• KTOR-9098 Curl: HttpResponse.version always returns HTTP_1_1
• KTOR-9100 Curl always uses HTTP/1.1
• KTOR-7162 DefaultRequest: Configuration applied twice for client created with HttpClient.config
• KTOR-9102 SSE: Java engine does not close the underlying connection when SSE session is canceled
• KTOR-9108 SSE: The handler adds Connection: Keep-Alive header, which is incompatible with HTTP/2
• KTOR-7884 Auth: The MutableList cannot be accessed since 3.0.0
• KTOR-6569 Bearer auth: Don't cache client bearer token (option)
• KTOR-4946 Auth: Bearer authentication - unable to update tokens
• KTOR-4759 Auth: BearerAuthProvider caches result of loadToken until process death
• KTOR-9129 Fix SendCountExceedException when maxRetries = Int.MAX_VALUE
• KTOR-9113 Netty HTTP2 server hangs on the plugin exception
• KTOR-9135 buildOpenApi fails with unknown serializer
• KTOR-8285 Bearer Auth: request cancellation causes refresh token invalidation
• KTOR-5241 The decodeBase64Bytes method doesn't throw an exception on illegal base64 characters
• KTOR-8912 Incorrect KDoc of ApplicationConfig.tryGetStringList
• KTOR-9079 The ktor-server-test-host module, having junit-jupiter runtime dependency, causes conflicts
• KTOR-7713 HttpCallValidatorConfig.handleResponseException() should receive a CallExceptionHandler
• KTOR-7121 testApplication: Test HTTP client does not use specified coroutine dispatcher
• KTOR-8785 DI: JobCancellationException during cleanup
• KTOR-6198 Client/WebSocket/Darwin close code and reason are incorrect
• KTOR-7824 Ktor doesn't parse multiple headers