NATS Monthly - June 2026

📣 News

News or announcements involving NATS.

NATS has hit 20k stars! Although a vanity metric, GitHub stars continue to rise making the NATS server alone in the top 0.007 percent of all repos.

RethinkConn 2026 is a wrap! Thanks to all of the attendee participation and presenters! Didn’t get a chance to sign up and want to watch them on-demand? Do a quick registration to get access to the sessions today!

RethinkConn workshops are now available on-demand! Get hands-on with NATS at your own pace — browse the on-demand workshops to deepen your skills across the NATS ecosystem.

Curious how NATS compares to Kafka? Read the recently revised white paper by Synadia’s Field CTO, Jean-Noel Moyne as so much has changed in the ecosystem the past three years since the original version was published.

🎤 Mentions

Notable mentions of NATS on social channels.

• Damian Esteban thinks “These NATS” are all you need as your microservice communication framework (and maybe squirrels).
• Ansh Saxena shares his experience overhauling their CyberSecurity Alert Triage project with NATS as one of the net new core components.
• Read how Tobias Lante is using CESMII i3X layered on top of NATS at the OT edge (manufacturing) to cut integration complexity.

⚙️ Projects

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

• oexza/Orisun - The batteries included event store.
• NVIDIA/dsx-exchange - DSX Exchange is an open source event bus for AI factory operations.
• Mapex-Solutions/mapexOS - An open-source enterprise IoT platform for connecting devices, processing data, automating workflows, and managing multi-tenant IoT operations.

📖 Articles

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

• Mirror, Merge, or Consume: How to Choose Your Edge-to-Core Streaming Pattern - Bruno Baloi, Synadia
• The Edge Talks Back: Building Bidirectional Control Into Your Architecture - Bruno Baloi, Synadia
• NATS.io Unleashes Edge AI Agents: The Lightweight Messaging Fabric Challenging Cloud Giants - Elena Rostova, Nexus Titan
• The Insider Threat You Just Hired - AI Agents in Production - Cristhian Ferrufino

🎬 Media

Audio or video recordings about or referencing NATS.

• Synadia Agents: Client SDK, Agent SDK & the Wire Protocol - Peter Humulock, Synadia
• Synadia Agents: DSPy Agents, Headless Controllers & Meta-Agent Dashboard - Peter Humulock, Synadia

⚡ Releases

Official releases from NATS repos and others in the ecosystem.

• nats-server - v2.14.2
• nats.​c - v3.13.0
• nats.​py - v2.15.0
• nats.​rs/async-nats - v0.49.1
• nats.​net - v2.8.1
• nsc - v2.15.0
• k8s/nats - v2.14.2
• nats-surveyor - v0.9.10
• prometheus-nats-exporter - v0.20.1
• jwt - v2.8.2
• nkeys - v0.4.16
• nats-box - v0.19.7

💬 Discussions

NATS repositories having recent GitHub Discussions.

nats-server

• Websocket using passthru auth, allow embedding a sessionID in the Header on all messages from client
• Slower performance on Windows 11 vs Mac OS
• Is Consumer Group prunes old members?

nats.​go

• Add client-side support for JetStream message scheduling (publish options)
• reset offset for consumer

nats.​py

• Release plans for nats-py 2.x (is 2.15 coming)?
• nats-core only accepts a single url now?

nkeys

• Possible to extract a compatible ed25519 from the scheme?

💼 Jobs

Recently posted jobs that include NATS in the tech stack.

• Synadia - Product Marketing Manager - Remote
• LiveKit - Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote, US
• Form3 - Senior Software Engineer (Go) - Remote (UK/EU)
• Bot Auto - Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Traffic Control - Houston, TX or SF Bay Area
• K2 Space - Ground Software Engineer - Los Angeles, CA