Update ktor monorepo to v3.6.0

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
io.ktor:ktor-serialization-kotlinx-json	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-content-negotiation	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-logging	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-cio	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-core	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-java	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-darwin	3.5.0 → 3.6.0
io.ktor:ktor-client-android	3.5.0 → 3.6.0

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Release Notes

ktorio/ktor (io.ktor:ktor-serialization-kotlinx-json)

v3.6.0

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Published 16 September 2026

Features

• KTOR-8596 OpenID Connect (OAuth2) auto-discover & configuration
• KTOR-9645 Client curated multi-platform facade module
• KTOR-8883 Support nested jars in static resources
• KTOR-8672 Support at least zstd and deflate formats of precompressed files
• KTOR-8595 Auth JWK Support (auto-discover)
• KTOR-9841 OIDC Server Plugin
• KTOR-9654 Override fetch in JS engine
• KTOR-9785 Typesafe Authentication DSL
• KTOR-462 Async CIO DNS resolver with timeout
• KTOR-9709 Add resource attribute for client resources plugin
• KTOR-5009 ContentNegotiation: Add a way to prevent changing Accept and Content-Type headers
• KTOR-9776 OpenAPI: Support the "const" validation keyword
• KTOR-7468 DefaultConversionService: Support Uuid type introduced in Kotlin 2.0
• KTOR-9578 HttpCache add method for clearing
• KTOR-9590 OpenAPI Contextual JSON schema inference support
• KTOR-6610 Log which ConfigLoader has been used for loading the server configuration
• KTOR-9735 Commonize HttpCache FileCacheStorage
• KTOR-8953 WebRTC client on JVM
• KTOR-9674 UDP support for Node.js targets
• KTOR-9612 Add text/markdown to the ContentType constants

Improvements

• KTOR-9876 Typo in KDoc for routing function: "for the this Application".
• KTOR-9778 Character classification in ktor-http hot paths uses boxed Set lookups and per-symbol encoder allocations
• KTOR-9702 Duplicate code in ByteReadChannel
• KTOR-9716 Make ApplicationCallPipeline.ApplicationPhase.Validators public in 3.6.0
• KTOR-9734 Use TagConsumer in respondHtmlFragment lambda receiver
• KTOR-5577 Support nullable types in ApplicationCall.receive
• KTOR-2367 OAuth: clients expect to get authenticated once per "session" for all protected routes
• KTOR-8594 Auth: Non-optional principal is of nullable type
• KTOR-9816 Escape $ in application.yaml file
• KTOR-8193 Unnecessary blocking in OutputStream wrapper

Bugfixes

• KTOR-8705 testApplication: call coroutine context isn't preserved when responding with ChannelWriterContent
• KTOR-9248 JWTAuthenticationProvider silently swallows exceptions
• KTOR-9892 Digest Auth client: nc and qop are not handled according to RFC 7616
• KTOR-9891 CIO on Kotlin/Native collapses above ~50 connections: HttpHeadersMap pools contend on an allocating SynchronizedObject
• KTOR-9794 Digest Auth: NullPointerException when the server does not expect Digest auth
• KTOR-9788 Netty: engine double-responds after its built-in 400, crashing the call-handler coroutine with "Headers can no longer be set because response was already completed"
• KTOR-9834 HttpClient eagerly initializes SLF4J during Android startup
• KTOR-9701 Jackson/Gson converters waste time on unnecessary Dispatchers.IO dispatch
• KTOR-9832 Apache5: Upgrading Apache HttpClient5 to version 5.6 breaks the Ktor client with Content-Length mismatch error for any gzipped content
• KTOR-9870 OkHttp: Reduce coroutine dispatching and allocations while reading response bodies
• KTOR-9627 Cancel blocking bridges when coroutine is cancelled
• KTOR-7067 Ktor Cookie.parseClientCookiesHeader returns Map, which breaks Cookie header contract
• KTOR-9643 Allow H2C and HTTP/2 on same server
• KTOR-9302 OpenAPI: No way to set tag description
• KTOR-9827 Authorization header removed from refresh token request
• KTOR-8355 Bad percentage encoding in URL query causes uncaught exception and 500 status
• KTOR-9762 Android: can hang when cancelling a streaming response during a blocking read
• KTOR-9443 OpenAPI: "No mapping for symbol: VALUE_PARAMETER" exception when respondText receives a conditional ContentType within ApplicationCall extension function
• KTOR-9392 OpenAPI: "No mapping for symbol: VAR name" exception when code inference is on
• KTOR-9389 OpenAPI: "IllegalStateException: No mapping for symbol" when code inference and passing received body to HttpStatusCode()
• KTOR-9784 Multipart is not supported on non-JVM server targets
• KTOR-9657 OpenAPI: generated schema for recursive types uses invalid schemaRef with ReflectionJsonSchemaInference
• KTOR-9676 Incorrect warning about streaming compression buffering
• KTOR-9712 Netty HTTP/3: the listener can only ever serve ONE QUIC connection — every subsequent handshake times out
• KTOR-9386 Misleading log output for Unix Domain Socket servers: "Responding at unix://0.0.0.0:80"
• KTOR-8755 CIO: The engine doesn't encode Unicode symbols like '–' (U+2013) in request URL
• KTOR-9513 CharsetDecoder.decode() ignores the max argument on JVM
• KTOR-9825 Unescape quoted-pair at the end of a header parameter value
• KTOR-9731 CIO: HttpRequestLifecycle cancels Connection: close call too soon, sending an incomplete response
• KTOR-9770 CIO: mapToKtor unwraps non-timeout exceptions to their cause
• KTOR-9772 Make quality parameter case-insensitive
• KTOR-9773 OkHttp: Cancelling a request can close the response body on the Android main thread
• KTOR-7009 CIO: "Failed to parse HTTP response: unexpected EOF" when pipelining is on
• KTOR-9819 Curl: Requests leak curl_slist and response StableRef
• KTOR-9761 CIO server: request handler can leak when idle timeout cancels a claimed response
• KTOR-9817 Darwin CertificatePinner over-releases borrowed Core Foundation references
• KTOR-9774 CIO: pipelining corrupts requests with non-empty bodies
• KTOR-9766 OpenAPI: "has no continuation" AssertionError when a suspend call inside a sealed-type branch reads the smart-cast value
• KTOR-9775 OkHttp: duplex streaming does not release the connection after the request completes
• KTOR-9722 DigestAuthProvider cannot be initialized with a congested Dispatchers.Default pool
• KTOR-9739 Outdated KDoc for AuthProvider.refreshToken method
• KTOR-9792 Application lifecycle events affect other reload generations
• KTOR-9793 The new DI scope is cancelled during hot reload
• KTOR-9648 OpenAPI: reflection schema inference produces incorrect discriminator mapping for Jackson-annotated and nested sealed hierarchies
• KTOR-9760 Digest Auth: URI and HA2 are empty for a URL without a path
• KTOR-9705 OpenAPI UI (ktor-server-openapi) does not support OpenAPI spec 3.1.*
• KTOR-9715 Netty HTTP/3: user handler code is dispatched on the QUIC event loop — one blocking handler freezes the entire HTTP/3 listener (callEventGroup / pinnedCallExecutor not used)
• KTOR-2912 CORS Plugin: Access-Control-Allow-Methods header does not include default methods (GET, POST, HEAD)
• KTOR-9526 Static Content: excluded extension prevents fallback, and index file bypasses exclusion rules
• KTOR-9523 OAuth2: fallback handler not invoked when token endpoint returns invalid_grant
• KTOR-9501 Websockets: Closing WebSocketSession with a long message leads to ProtocolViolationException
• KTOR-9561 ByteReadChannel.copyTo does not propagate source closedCause on normal exit
• KTOR-9640 ktor-io reader/writer ignores autoFlush
• KTOR-9889 DI: Concurrent module loading can cause a deadlock
• KTOR-9886 Netty: inverted skippedRead CAS leaves runningLimit read-resumption broken; runningLimit = 1 deadlocks keep-alive connections

v3.5.2

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Published 31 July 2026

Improvements

• KTOR-8032 RateLimit: Allow limit requests based on authentication result
• KTOR-9719 ApplicationCall.isStaticContent returns false when called from plugin interceptors
• KTOR-8450 ContentNegotiation: it doesn't handle content type suffixes
• KTOR-7892 SwaggerUI: Missing oauth2-redirect.html support in the plugin
• KTOR-9759 Reject whitespace in URL hosts during parsing
• KTOR-9681 Update kotlinx-io to 0.9.1
• KTOR-9743 ByteReadChannel.readLineStrict: Misleading definition of limit parameter in KDocs
• KTOR-9504 Improve KDoc for EmbeddedServer.addShutdownHook

Bugfixes

• KTOR-9741 CIO: request-handler coroutine leak on half-closed idle connection after ≥1MB response
• KTOR-7661 Maven + YAML config file does not work
• KTOR-9585 OpenAPI: JsonSchema title is truncated when it contains a dot
• KTOR-9704 UTF-8 encoding in ktor-io bypasses JVM String.getBytes intrinsics, slowing every text response by 5-7x
• KTOR-9588 SSE client (CIO engine) sends spurious Content-Length: 0 on body-less GET (RFC 9110 § 8.6 violation; rejected by AWS ELB)
• KTOR-9679 ByteReadChannel.readLine corrupts multi-byte UTF-8 by splitting a character at a buffer boundary
• KTOR-9767 ByteReadChannel.readLineTo: Return read bytes count instead of decoded characters count
• KTOR-8992 HoconConfigLoader is not loaded when ktor-server-config-yaml on the classpath
• KTOR-9698 OpenAPI: schema for kotlinx.serialization sealed types omits discriminator property in variant schemas
• KTOR-9690 Netty: in-flight requests are aborted on stop(), ignoring shutdown grace period
• KTOR-8903 Netty: Close channel connection on errors properly
• KTOR-9707 SaveBody performance regression
• KTOR-9703 Inefficient text reading function in DefaultTransform
• KTOR-9711 Netty HTTP/2: a single client-canceled stream (RST_STREAM) breaks response flushing for the whole connection
• KTOR-9688 RateLimit: No access to principal when wrapped with authentication since 3.5.1
• KTOR-9677 Auto-reloading: server is reloaded only once since 3.5.0
• KTOR-9683 Sockets: Canceling a SelectorManager job doesn't close it properly
• KTOR-9671 Darwin: Semicolons in URL path are sanitized

v3.5.1

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Published 25 June 2026

Improvements

• KTOR-9492 OpenAPI plugin: handle requireXxx functions in compiler plugin
• KTOR-9569 Add more details for KDoc of BearerAuthConfig.sendWithoutRequest
• KTOR-9571 Add KDoc for BearerAuthConfig.realm
• KTOR-9570 Add Kdoc for BearerAuthConfig.refreshTokens

Bugfixes

• KTOR-9646 Fix Kotlin 2.4.0 compiler plugin breaking changes
• KTOR-9585 OpenAPI: JsonSchema title is truncated when it contains a dot
• KTOR-9591 OpenAPI: @JsonClassDiscriminator on sealed types is ignored when generating OpenAPI discriminator schema
• KTOR-9597 OpenAPI: Schema name collisions because@SerialName of sealed subtypes is used as components.schemas key
• KTOR-9601 OpenAPI: nullable @​JvmInline value class loses nullability in generated schema
• KTOR-9620 Some issues related to digest authentication in 3.5.0
• KTOR-9623 Digest Auth: server must respond with one WWW-Authenticate header for each supported algorithm
• KTOR-9624 Digest Auth: "Unsupported charset in digest authentication header" for a charset name in lowercase
• KTOR-9630 Digest Auth: The plugin sends incorrect nonce when server responds with multiple WWW-Authenticate headers
• KTOR-9565 WebRTC: Peer stops receiving messages after a while on iOS
• KTOR-9610 WebRtcPeerConnection::close causes ClosedReceiveChannelException for other peer
• KTOR-9633 WebRTC statistics fetching race condition
• KTOR-9603 Structured concurrency is violated in WebRTC tests
• KTOR-9671 Darwin: Semicolons in URL path are sanitized
• KTOR-9639 Darwin: WebSocket client crashes the process when a PONG arrives after the session is closed
• KTOR-9575 Darwin: findCharset("UTF-16") maps to NSUTF16LittleEndianStringEncoding causing decoding failure for UTF-16 content with BOM
• KTOR-9661 HttpCache: InvalidCacheStateException is thrown on 304 when no cached entry matches varyKeys
• KTOR-9673 Caching always missing with Content Negotiation
• KTOR-9596 HttpTimeout: HttpRequestTimeoutException on any request with runTest and request timeout defined since 3.5.0
• KTOR-9632 HttpRequestBuilder.timeout call removes capabilities set in DefaultRequest
• KTOR-9252 ContentEncoding: Incomplete gzip response causes client/server to hang indefinitely
• KTOR-9670 Compression: The plugin ignores Accept-Encoding q=0 and most-specific matching
• KTOR-9614 Zstd Compression: "Destination buffer is too small" exception for a particular sequence of bytes
• KTOR-9636 CORS plugin drops OPTIONS preflight requests when allowSameOrigin is on
• KTOR-9659 CORS is skipped when the Origin header contains an IPv6 address
• KTOR-9574 ContentNegotiation: The charset of Accept-Charset header is used for response deserialization
• KTOR-9606 KotlinxSerializationConverter: it fails to deserialize an empty channel closed with a delay
• KTOR-9617 OutputStreamContent and WriterContent can exhaust Dispatchers.IO
• KTOR-9629 RawSourceChannel: coroutine cancellation is not propagated to the RawSource
• KTOR-8870 File.readChannel: do not close a non-opened file and ignore closing exceptions
• KTOR-9460 Curl: Can't build shared library with Ktor 3.4.2
• KTOR-9607 Crash on Android 7: NoSuchMethodError getInstanceStrong() since 3.5.0
• KTOR-9595 CIO: The engine imports node:net statically and breaks wasmJsBrowser webpack build
• KTOR-9615 Apache5: The underlying request is not aborted when coroutine Job is cancelled
• KTOR-8443 RoutingBuilder.contentType does not use parameters when matching
• KTOR-9425 SessionTransportTransformerEncrypt init block uses wrong IV size for AES-256 (regression of KTOR-661)
• KTOR-9621 RateLimit plugin is bypassed when the nested authenticate block rejects the request
• KTOR-8766 DI: The close method is called twice on cleanup of AutoCloseable
• KTOR-8695 GMTDate() being offset by 369 years on Windows
• KTOR-9589 Duplicate PROPERTY_SETTER target in @​InternalAPI annotation
• KTOR-9602 Gradle plugin environment variable is not included in the image

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