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Technical deep dives, product updates, and insights from the teams that are helping to build a better Internet.

8 major updates to Cloudflare Observability

2 Oct 2026

Cloudflare is launching eight major updates that bring logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, querying, and telemetry export into one observability platform, with simpler and more predictable

Streamline: custom video pipelines with Cloudflare Stream and Workers

2 Oct 2026

Streamline demonstrates how to build long-running, continuous video processing pipelines by pairing Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects with a containerized media engine.

Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway

2 Oct 2026

Cloudflare AI Gateway now supports native web search API integration in partnership with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup. Developers can now inject real-time web context into model inference calls via AI

Updates on our pledge to make Cloudflare features accessible to everyone

2 Oct 2026

A year after pledging to eliminate two-tier product access, Cloudflare has expanded Logpush, multi-account governance, and higher platform limits to all accounts. Here is an update on our progress,

Protected Quick Tunnels: simple accountless authentication for your next dev project

2 Oct 2026

Quick Tunnels now support email authentication. Add --allowed-mail to one cloudflared command, and only the addresses or domains you list can reach your local app. No Cloudflare account required on

Follow the thread: a new dashboard to investigate account abuse

2 Oct 2026

Fraudsters are increasingly using AI to bypass stateless security checks. Cloudflare's new Account Abuse Protection dashboard uses stateful analysis and edge-generated Hashed User IDs to help teams

2026 Birthday week: network performance update

2 Oct 2026

Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages, we have expanded our real-user

Introducing Cloudflare Traces: follow requests through our entire platform

2 Oct 2026

Cloudflare Traces shows how a request moves through security rules, transformations, cache, routing, Workers, and your origin, then follows it across services running anywhere in your stack.

Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway – expanding access to Cloudflare’s privacy-preserving infrastructure

2 Oct 2026

We’re announcing the closed beta of a self-serve Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway. We’re also renaming our Privacy Gateway to Cloudflare OHTTP Relay to better distinguish the two products.

Building for good: How civil society organizations are automating on Cloudflare

2 Oct 2026

Some of the world's leading organizations are building the future of non-profit work with Cloudflare.

Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

1 Oct 2026

We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform

One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice

1 Oct 2026

AI sovereignty is not a zero-sum game, but many governments now believe it is. Cloudflare's answer: more local open-source models, model-agnostic security tools, and a commitment to giving nations

AI Search is now generally available

1 Oct 2026

AI Search is now generally available. It embeds image pixels directly for visual search, runs optical character recognition on scanned PDFs, accepts files up to 10 MiB, and works with any chat model.

Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

1 Oct 2026

Cloudflare K2 is a serverless event streaming service built directly on top of R2 object storage for high-scale data movement and long-term retention. By decoupling producers and consumers at the

We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

1 Oct 2026

Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings, data jurisdiction controls, and event

Support for modern cryptographic algorithms in Workers

1 Oct 2026

Cloudflare Workers is adding opt-in support for post-quantum-resistant algorithms ML-KEM and ML-DSA. You can try it today.

Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you

1 Oct 2026

Cloudflare OS gives everyone in your organization an agent workspace that knows how your company works and connects to its data and systems. We’re opening the waitlist for fully managed deployments

Introducing Workers KV Instant — powered by Quicksilver

1 Oct 2026

Workers KV Instant delivers sub-2ms p99 read latencies and 250ms global replication across Cloudflare’s 300+ edge locations. KV Instant eliminates cold-read penalties and uses the familiar Workers

Introducing Cloudflare Basin: an open, serverless data platform, now generally available

1 Oct 2026

Cloudflare Basin is built on Apache Iceberg and R2 Object Storage. With general availability, developers can ingest, manage, and query large datasets at scale without paying data egress fees.

Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations

30 Sep 2026

This week, Cloudflare's Impact programs will reach $100 million in donated services. This milestone means that thousands of entities including journalists, civil society, state and local governments,

Simplifying domains for people and agents

30 Sep 2026

Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets. Its expanded API and cf CLI also let agents search,

Monetization Gateway beta: charge AI agents for consumption with HTTP 402

30 Sep 2026

Cloudflare’s AI Gateway, Ceramic.ai, Stocktwits, and more are using the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway today to charge agents for access to tokens, APIs, and MCP tools. U.S.-based sellers can now

Detect and send production issues straight to your agent

30 Sep 2026

You can now use built-in error monitoring in Cloudflare Workers to group production failures and send stack traces, logs, traces, and application context directly to a coding agent to investigate

Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router

30 Sep 2026

Cloudflare AI Gateway now features a model router that evaluates request complexity using an edge-deployed classifier to select the optimal model. By balancing expected output quality against token

Identify AI model overuse with User Insights

30 Sep 2026

AI Gateway User Insights now adds task, model, turn, and user categories to help teams understand AI adoption and make better model decisions. This is available free to AI Gateway users.

Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid

30 Sep 2026

Pay Per Use is now in beta. AI companies report when they use publishers’ content, and Cloudflare handles billing, payouts, and reporting, so our customers are paid according to use.

The Internet has a second audience

30 Sep 2026

More than half the traffic reaching sites on Cloudflare is now automated, and AI agents are the fastest-growing part of it. We're giving site owners the tools to see who's visiting, decide who gets

Cloudflare Containers, rebuilt to scale agent sandboxes

30 Sep 2026

Cloudflare Containers now start 6x faster, let your agent choose each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, and support filesystem snapshots in public beta, all controlled from a Durable

Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks

29 Sep 2026

Cloudflare introduces an adaptive security framework connecting risk discovery, agent governance, runtime protection, and AI-powered response in a continuous learning loop.

Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration

29 Sep 2026

We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029.

Is your domain using post-quantum encryption? Now you can see for yourself

29 Sep 2026

Cloudflare has added visibility into post-quantum (PQ) encryption in TLS 1.3 directly into HTTP Analytics, Log Explorer, and Logpush. Learn how to make sure your domain is protected with PQ

Enforce positive security with Cloudflare Application Profiles

29 Sep 2026

Cloudflare learns the structure of your HTTP requests and identifies deviations. You can add a positive security layer that helps reduce attack surface as AI makes it easier for attackers to generate

Introducing Threat Signals: agentic skills for open-source threat intelligence, free for every Cloudflare account

29 Sep 2026

We are expanding access to Cloudforce One's Threat Events Platform to every Cloudflare account and introducing Threat Signals. Threat Signals automatically parses open-source threat reporting,

Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec

29 Sep 2026

A sophisticated attacker with a quantum computer can exploit a protocol design flaw to downgrade post-quantum IPsec tunnels to classical crypto. We helped the IETF develop a transcript authentication

Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates

29 Sep 2026

As post-quantum signatures threaten to inflate TLS handshakes and certificate transparency logs, Merkle Tree Certificates offer a path to compact, auditable authentication. Cloudflare’s new

We tested our own WAF with frontier AI models. Here’s what we found

29 Sep 2026

We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed test might miss. We ran it across six attack categories on an

Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet

29 Sep 2026

Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority. By combining an established root, an ACME-first approach, and Merkle Tree Certificates, we are

Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API

28 Sep 2026

We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator.

Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0

28 Sep 2026

Vinext 1.0 graduates from an AI experiment to a production-ready framework, letting developers run Next.js apps on Vite. This release brings advanced cache warming, broader compatibility, and an

How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON

28 Sep 2026

Cloudflare is open-sourcing the BEACON dataset, making billions of anonymized Real User Monitoring (RUM) performance records publicly available on Google BigQuery. Explore real-world Core Web Vitals,

EmDash 1.0: the stable CMS with a secure plugin registry

28 Sep 2026

EmDash 1.0 is a stable, open source CMS built for Astro, with agent-friendly workflows, secure sandboxed plugins, and a decentralized registry that keeps publishers in control.

Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect

28 Sep 2026

Cloudflare is launching The Cold Start, a startup competition giving five early-stage companies five minutes on stage at Cloudflare Connect. Grand Prize winner receives $500,000 in credits, a San

Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all humans and agents

28 Sep 2026

Since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has delivered more than 80 releases that drastically speed up JavaScript compilation, linting, and testing. From a 10x faster React compiler to Vite+ 1.0, here’s

Supporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgen

28 Sep 2026

With the new experimental support for the Emscripten target in Rust Workers, many previously unsupported Rust libraries and applications can now be built and deployed directly to Cloudflare’s

Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more

28 Sep 2026

Forge is a pluggable, open-source pipeline that runs in CI to generate SDKs, CLIs, and documentation directly from API definitions. By shifting generation upstream into individual team repositories,

The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update

28 Sep 2026

We’ve updated Kitesurf, our Workers-based browser for AI agents, with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering. With over 730,000 Web Platform subtests passing, agents

Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter

27 Sep 2026

The Internet is changing more today than at any point since Cloudflare launched back on September 27, 2010. As automated traffic surpasses human activity, we reflect on the rise of AI agents, new

Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin

25 Sep 2026

Misconfiguring Turnstile by skipping backend validation leaves sites exposed to bots. Turnstile Spin fixes incomplete setups by using your preferred AI coding agent to wire up server-side

How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers

24 Sep 2026

External security researchers at Accomplish identified a vulnerability in Cloudflare Containers that could expose residual disk data from previous workloads. We explain how the issue worked, how we

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

22 Sep 2026

Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache