NATS Monthly - February 2026

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

Going to KubeCon 🇳🇱? Be sure to stop by booth 486 to meet the Synadia team, talk NATS, and pick up some swag!

⚙️ Projects

Community created projects, integrations, or discussions in the NATS ecosystem.

• litesql/ha - Highly available leader/leaderless SQLite cluster powered by embedded NATS JetStream server
• NERSC/interactEM - An interactive flow-based programming platform for streaming experimental data to High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• tallpress/nnav - A terminal UI for exploring NATS messages with filtering, request/response matching, and JSON tools inspired by lnav.
• mark3labs/iteratr - Long-running Agent Loop Manager for Opencode
• Toyz/protoc-gen-nats-micro - Protobuf plugin for generating NATS microservices

📖 Articles

Blog posts, tutorials, or any other text-based content about NATS.

• Exploring reality of building microservice architecture: A gRPC and NATS - Neeraj Meena
• NATS: The Nervous System Behind Real-Time AI - Paul Negedu
• JetStream Expected Sequence Headers: Optimistic Concurrency Without Locks - Peter Humulock, Synadia
• Message Tracing in NATS 2.11: Debug Your Entire System with One Command - Peter Humulock, Synadia
• Kafka & Nats.io Events & Message Brokers - Mateus Chaves
• NATS: Powering Millions of Requests with Speed and Simplicity - Lokeswararao Betha, PalTech

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.12.4
• nats.​py - v2.13.1
• nats.​rs/async-nats - v0.46.0
• nats.​net - v2.7.2
• nats.​java - v2.25.1
• natscli - v0.3.1
• nack - v0.22.2
• k8s/nack - v0.33.1
• k8s/surveyor - v0.20.7
• k8s/nats - v2.12.4
• terraform-provider-jetstream - v0.3.0
• nats-surveyor - v0.9.7
• prometheus-nats-exporter - v0.19.1
• nkeys - v0.4.15
• nats-box - v0.19.3

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

• Not being able to connect to Jetstream through account Imports
• Should we use hostPath for jetstream cluster running in K8S
• Hot scaling core NATS (no JetStream) for bursty traffic — patterns and operator experience ?
• Create a stream without subjects

nats.​go

• Aggregate KV?

nats.​node

• How to ensure no messages dropped during server cluster deployment?

nats.​net

• API Evolution Strategy: Default Interface Methods, Interface Stability, and netstandard2.0 Constraints
• Any plans for Counter APIs?
• Error handling best practices

nats.​java

• question about nats cluster failover

k8s

• Is NATS Operator still maintained or recommended way?

💼 Jobs

Recently posted jobs that include NATS in the tech stack.

• ICEYE - Senior Backend Software Engineer (Operations) - Espoo, Finland
• DomainTools - Senior Software Engineer - Remote
• Life360 - Staff Backend Engineer, Location Platform - Remote, Canada / USA
• RedSail Technologies - Senior Software Developer - Multiple Locations, USA