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NewsIntroducing a Security Support Policy for the Kotlin Standard Library
Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as something that has to be reviewed, approved, and then frozen in production for a while.
Among all of these audiences, Kotlin’s adoption on the JVM keeps growing. Around half of Kotlin developers today write server-side applications, including in segments like payment infrastructure and banking, where some teams have been running Kotlin in production for years. A large portion of teams in segments like these work in environments where every production dependency goes through a formal security review.
In environments like these, platform teams run into a deceptively simple question: “Which Kotlin versions are supported?” Until today, we didn’t have a clean answer. This post introduces one.
