Vercel News

14 Aug 2026

Vercel CDN now supports Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) for domains managed by Vercel DNS. ECH encrypts the Server Name Indication (SNI) in the TLS handshake, the last part of an HTTPS connection that

13 Aug 2026

The best way to learn is by shipping product to users in production, and that's why we don’t treat our interns as temporary guests. Every intern at Vercel is expected to operate like a core part of

12 Aug 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro now runs on updated weights on AI Gateway. They are used by default when you call `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`, so existing requests pick them up with no change to the model ID or your

12 Aug 2026

[Grok 4.6](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/grok-4.6) from SpaceXAI is now available on [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway). The model has a 500K token context window and accepts text

12 Aug 2026

The AI SDK is one of the most popular open-source AI projects in the world. It serves over 20 million npm downloads a week and the repo has over 26,000 stars. Maintaining the codebase means tracking

11 Aug 2026

Every build on Vercel starts in the build warm pool, which is a set of standby containers that let builds begin without waiting for new compute. The pool runs on state that tracks which containers

11 Aug 2026

Vercel Connect now gives teams line-level visibility into the token lifecycle. See who created a token, what app or project used it, when, and whether it is still active. Every connector's detail

11 Aug 2026

Enterprise Managed Users (EMU) gives organizations full control over the Vercel accounts tied to their verified domains. It makes the organization's identity provider the single source of truth for

11 Aug 2026

You can now integrate 100+ services through Vercel Connect from the CLI. Previously, `vercel connect create` completed setup in the terminal for some services, and opened the dashboard for everything

11 Aug 2026

Running untrusted code safely requires more than separating it from the host. You also have to control what that code can reach. This matters more as AI agents gain the ability to read files,

10 Aug 2026

Today we are introducing Vercel Managed Images (VMI), a set of versioned, open-source base images you can use as-is or extend. The source for every image lives in the public

10 Aug 2026

The [Bun runtime](https://vercel.com/docs/functions/runtimes/bun) for Vercel Functions now supports `Bun.serve()` as a function entrypoint, including WebSocket handlers. The server you run locally

8 Aug 2026

[Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from xAI](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/grok-imagine-image-2.0-preview) is now available on AI Gateway. The model follows detailed instructions closely and

7 Aug 2026

[Hermes Agent](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/) can now use [Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway) as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated [Vercel

7 Aug 2026

[Vercel Container Registry](/docs/container-registry) now lets you make a repository public, so anyone with a Vercel account can pull and use its images. Sharing already granted read access to up to

7 Aug 2026

You can now bundle multiple agent skills into a shareable pack on [skills.sh](https://skills.sh). Build a pack from community skills, your own local folders and zips, or public and private GitHub

7 Aug 2026

New [Pro](https://vercel.com/docs/plans/pro-plan) subscriptions now include a domain free for the first year. The offer covers six TLDs: `.online` `.site` `.space` `.store` `.tech` `.website` Each

6 Aug 2026

You can build human-in-the-loop approvals with Chat SDK through the new `chat/workflow` subpath. One `requestApproval` call posts a card with Approve and Deny buttons and suspends a [Workflow

6 Aug 2026

Today, Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is publicly available. [Agent Plugins](https://agent-plugins.org/) is an open, vendor-neutral standard for plugins that extend AI agents. [Agent

6 Aug 2026

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is now available. It is an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Compatible agent clients can discover and load them.

5 Aug 2026

You can now set a project's avatar from its settings in the Vercel dashboard. Until now, Vercel set it automatically, using the favicon from the project's production deployment. That's still the

5 Aug 2026

Buying a domain on Vercel now takes you to a setup page that tracks registration live, with direct paths to deploy a new project, connect an existing one, proxy or redirect a site you already run, or

5 Aug 2026

AI Gateway is now available on [AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-cwlx232m3j4m6?sr=0-1&ref_=ucaf&applicationId=AWSMPContessa). Teams can procure AI Gateway through

5 Aug 2026

All [Vercel Sandbox](https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox) firewall features are now available on the Hobby plan. This brings the same network isolation that protects production workloads to the free

4 Aug 2026

Today the Next.js team announced the release of [Next.js 16.3](https://nextjs.org/blog/next-16-3), with leaner prefetching, immutable static assets, and instant navigations. As part of this release,

4 Aug 2026

Deploys are now up to 33% faster for apps using [Incremental Static Regeneration](https://vercel.com/docs/incremental-static-regeneration) (ISR). The more prerendered pages you have, the more you're

4 Aug 2026

Your eve agent can now navigate the web like a human with [agent-browser](https://eve.dev/integrations/agent-browser). The `@agent-browser/eve` extension gives any [eve](https://eve.dev) agent a

3 Aug 2026

Vercel WAF for Blob is now generally available and supported for production use on all plans. If you protected a store [during the

3 Aug 2026

[Vercel Container Registry](/docs/container-registry#share-a-repository) now lets you share a repository with other Vercel teams to grant read access to its images. Sharing is read-only and covers

2 Aug 2026

[Qwen 3.8 Max](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/qwen3.8-max) is now available on AI Gateway. Qwen 3.8 Max handles text-only and vision-language work in one model, with 2.4 trillion parameters

31 Jul 2026

AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys. Set a dollar limit on a scope, and the gateway meters spend against it and stops further

31 Jul 2026

[DeepSeek V4 Flash](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/deepseek-v4-flash) now runs on updated weights by default on AI Gateway, with notably stronger agentic capabilities. On Terminal-Bench, it

31 Jul 2026

[Vercel Passport](https://vercel.com/passport) is now generally available. Passport allows you to protect your Vercel deployments with your own identity provider. Visitors authenticate through Okta,

30 Jul 2026

Vercel's CDN will begin passing through the [Server-Timing](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Server-Timing) response header to the client on August 10, 2026. Use

30 Jul 2026

On [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway), [GPT-5.6 Luna](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gpt-5.6-luna) and [GPT-5.6 Terra](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/gpt-5.6-terra) are now

30 Jul 2026

You can now create [Vercel Access Tokens](https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api#authentication) that are limited to a project to authenticate and use the [Vercel API](https://vercel.com/docs/api). A

30 Jul 2026

Over the past few months, we've made deployments up to 7 seconds faster end to end. We removed up to 5 seconds of fixed platform overhead from every build, and deploys from the latest Vercel CLI save

30 Jul 2026

`mcp-handler@2.0.0` is now available with support for the [2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/changelog) and [MCP TypeScript SDK

30 Jul 2026

Enterprise customers can now apply a portion of their Flexible Commitment toward eligible resources purchased through the Vercel Marketplace. With Flex Commit support, eligible Marketplace cost can

29 Jul 2026

Sign in with ChatGPT adds your ChatGPT account as an authentication option for Vercel. It is available when adding the Vercel plugin to ChatGPT and when signing in to Vercel or v0. When you add the

29 Jul 2026

You can now discover and install integrations for [eve](https://eve.dev/) agents directly from the eve CLI. Integrations come from the official eve catalog and third-party sources. Run `eve add`

29 Jul 2026

[Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 from xAI](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/grok-voice-think-fast-2.0) is now available on AI Gateway. It is a speech-to-speech voice model that takes audio in and audio

29 Jul 2026

Pro and Enterprise teams can now purchase additional custom environment capacity without contacting sales. Custom environments let you model your team's release process on Vercel. You can add

29 Jul 2026

Edge Config is now [Global Config](https://vercel.com/docs/global-config). This rename better reflects that it is a globally replicated data store with ~1ms reads in every region, built for the

29 Jul 2026

AI Gateway has a unified fast mode abstraction, now in beta. You can now request [fast mode](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers/fast-mode) the same way for every model on AI

28 Jul 2026

[Vercel Sandbox](https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox) now supports forking with `Sandbox.fork()`. The fork starts from the source's current snapshot and inherits its config and environment variables. If

27 Jul 2026

AI Gateway now supports regional inference. Set `inferenceRegion` on a request to pin it to the US or EU. Every model provider that supports the selected region handles it the same way. Inference

27 Jul 2026

eve agents on Slack can now keep replying in a thread without repeated mentions, cancel an in-progress response or reset a conversation entirely, and react to any event your Slack app subscribes to.

27 Jul 2026

[AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway) now supports WebSocket mode for the OpenAI Responses API. You can keep a persistent connection open and continue each turn by sending only new input items

27 Jul 2026

[Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3) and its faster serving path, [Kimi K3 Fast](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/kimi-k3-fast), are now available from