🗞 Monthly Kintone API Update 🗞

API Updates for February 2025 (2nd Announcement)

Update Summary On the update scheduled on February 2025, Brazilian Portuguese and Thai will be added as a display language. Some User APIs and Kintone JavaScript APIs will be affected by this update.

New Features Get or set the language to Brazilian Portuguese and Thai for the following fields using the User API: Language (for Users) Localized Name (for Users and Departments) Get the display name in Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) and Thai (th) when retrieving login user information using JavaScript API.

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API Updates for March 2025

The next Kintone update is on 10th March 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary It looks like there are no API updates for March.

Be sure to check out the Kintone Product Updates over at the product website for the latest news on feature improvements and important notices!

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API Updates for April 2025

The next Kintone update is on 14th April 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The April 2025 update includes new features for the Get Process Management Settings API, Update Process Management Settings API, and a new authentication method for the User API.

Kintone REST API New Features The action type and action's executable user setting values will be retrievable/updatable with the Get Process Management Settings and Update Process Management Settings REST API.

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API Updates for May 2025

The next Kintone update is on 12th May 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary It looks like there are no API updates for May.

Be sure to check out the Kintone Product Updates over at the product website for the latest news on feature improvements and important notices!

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API Updates for June 2025

The next Kintone update is on 9th June 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary It looks like there are no API updates for June.

Be sure to check out the Kintone Product Updates over at the product website for the latest news on feature improvements and important notices!

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API Updates for July 2025

The next Kintone update is on 14th July 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The July 2025 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs. These APIs aim to enable safe and efficient methods for data retrieval and UI operation.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Six major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

APIs to retrieve information about the current environment APIs to retrieve user information APIs to retrieve App configuration information APIs to retrieve App and record information APIs to retrieve space information APIs to retrieve frontend platform information APIs to Retrieve Environment Information kintone.

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API Updates for August 2025

The next Kintone update is on 12th August 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The August 2025 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs, and new features for the JavaScript and REST APIs.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Four major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

APIs to toggle record sidebars and App descriptions APIs to show/hide App UI elements APIs to retrieve logged-in user's information APIs to get the currently displayed page APIs to Toggle Record Sidebars and App Descriptions kintone.

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API Updates for September 2025

The next Kintone update is on 16th September 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The September 2025 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs, and new features for the JavaScript and REST APIs.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Get View Settings kintone.app.getView()

Retrieves the view settings information.

kintone.app.getViews()

Retrieves the list of the views.

Display UI kintone.

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API Updates for October 2025

The next Kintone update is on 14th October 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The October 2025 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs, and spec changes for some JavaScript APIs that retrieve user information.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Three major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

APIs to retrieve process management settings APIs to retrieve field display status APIs to display UI APIs to Retrieve Process Management Settings kintone.

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Kintone MCP Server Release Announcement

The local Kintone MCP server has been released.

By integrating it with generative AI tools, such as Claude Desktop, users can operate Kintone using generative AI or command-line interfaces.

This time, operations such as retrieving and adding records in Kintone are supported.

Usage Refer to the following link for more information on how to use Kintone MCP Server.

kintone MCP Server

Available Features The following API can be used:

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API Updates for November 2025

The next Kintone update is on 10th November 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The November 2025 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Three major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

APIs to build page URLs APIs to enable/disable keyboard shortcuts APIs to retrieve App UI display states APIs to build page URLs kintone.

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API Updates for December 2025

The next Kintone update is on 15th December 2025. The release also includes the following API updates.

The December 2025 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs and spec changes.

Four major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

APIs to retrieve App Actions information APIs to show/hide App Action buttons and retrieve their display states APIs to show/hide process management action buttons and retrieve their display states APIs to retrieve the keyboard shortcuts states kintone.

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Notice Regarding the Use of Sample Plugins Due to Zendesk API Authentication Updates

After April 30, 2026, Zendesk's API authentication specifications will be updated.

If you do not update the authentication, the sample plug-in using OAuth authentication published on the following page will stop working.

Zendesk Plug-in

For details about the authentication updates, refer to the following Zendesk official help page.

Announcing support for OAuth refresh token grant type and OAuth access and refresh token expirations

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API Updates for January 2026

The next Kintone update is on 13th January 2026. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The January 2026 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs and spec changes.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Four major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

APIs to show/hide the Change Assignee button in process management and retrieve its display state APIs to show/hide the view selection's drop-down list and retrieve its display state APIs to show/hide the graph selection's drop-down list and retrieve its display state APIs to retrieve the list of graphs APIs to show/hide the Change Assignee button in process management and retrieve its display state kintone.

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API Updates for February 2026

The next Kintone update is on 9th February 2026. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The February 2026 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs and spec changes.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features The following Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added.

APIs to change and retrieve field styles kintone.app.record.setFieldStyle()

Changes the style of a field.

kintone.app.record.getFieldStyle()

Retrieves the style of a field.

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Notice Regarding Integration and Migration of Developer Command-Line Tools

Developer command-line tools for plug-in and customization will be integrated into cli-kintone.

cli-kintone

This integration allows all plug-in and customization operations, which previously required multiple tools, to be completed using cli-kintone.

By utilizing both the new integrated tools and the existing features of cli-kintone, users will be able to perform all types of operations from development to production within a single CLI.

As a result, the existing tools that provide equivalent functionality will reach the end of support in August 2026.

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API Updates for March 2026

The next Kintone update is on 9th March 2026. The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary The March 2026 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs and User API spec changes.

Kintone JavaScript API New Features Three major categories of new Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added:

Event that occurs when inline editing ends on the record list page

APIs to change and retrieve field styles in mobile record add/edit page

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End of Life Notice for Web plugin-packer

The

Web plugin-packer

will reach the end of life in August 2026.

After the end of life, the Web plugin-packer will no longer be accessible.

Use the plugin pack command in cli-kintone instead.

plugin pack

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API Updates for April 2026

The next Kintone update is on 13th April 2026 . The release also includes the following API updates.

Update Summary

The April 2026 update includes the release of new JavaScript APIs for list view styles, and spec changes for the field style APIs.

Kintone JavaScript API

New Features

The following Kintone JavaScript APIs will be added.

APIs to change and retrieve list view styles

PC Version

kintone.app.setRecordListStyle()

Changes the style of the list view on the record list page.

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Notice Regarding a Security Issue in a Dependency Package (axios)

A security issue was identified in axios, which is a dependency of npm packages provided by Kintone.

axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 are compromised

Conditions That Can Trigger the Installation of Compromised Axios

Environments that performed any of the following actions between approximately 9:21 and 12:15 (JST) on March 31, 2026 may have installed the compromised version of axios.

Package Installation

When the following npm packages were resolved via npm install , npx , or similar commands, the compromised version of axios may have been installed.

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