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Cloudflare Network Firewall, Magic Transit, Cloudflare WAN - Threat Intel Lists supported in Unified Routing
Cloudflare Advanced Network Firewall Threat Intel Lists are now supported for accounts using Unified Routing mode. This feature requires a Cloudflare Advanced Network Firewall subscription. Support for additional features - Rate Limiting and Managed Rulesets - is planned. For the full list of current beta limitations, refer to Traffic steering beta limitations.
Exa joins the Vercel AI Gateway and Agent Marketplace
is now available on the and as a native integration. Exa's neural search engine grounds models in current information.ExaVercel AI GatewayAgent Marketplace Every model on AI Gateway can search with Exa through a , with no Exa account or key of your own required. Pass alongside your prompt and the gateway runs the search, hands the results back to the model, and keeps going until the model stops searching. You get one finished response with a synthesized answer rather than raw results to strea
Vercel Python Queues SDK is now available in beta
The Python SDK for Vercel Queues is now available in beta, bringing first-class Python support for running background workloads on Vercel. You publish messages to topics, and independent consumer groups process them in parallel with automatic retries, sharding, and delivery guarantees. Messages can be enqueued or consumed from either JavaScript or Python, meaning a Next.js producer can fan out to both Next.js and Python queue consumers. Publish a message from your Python API: Publish a message
Access, Cloudflare Fundamentals - Access resource lists now support resource-scoped roles
Members with only resource-scoped Access roles can now open Access resource list pages in the Cloudflare dashboard and call list endpoints in the API. They no longer need an additional account-scoped read-only role to list resources. The dashboard and API return only resources included in the member's permission policy scopes. Filtering applies to Access applications, policies, service tokens, and identity providers. This allows administrators to delegate specific Access resources without granti
Workers - @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers is now @cloudflare/vitest-plugin
Version 1 of the Workers Vitest integration is published as @cloudflare/vitest-plugin ↗. The package was formerly named @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers. The Vitest configuration API is unchanged. Existing projects must update the dependency name, package imports, and TypeScript types entries. To migrate automatically, run: npmyarnpnpm npx @cloudflare/codemods vitest:pool-workers-to-vitest-plugin yarn @cloudflare/codemods vitest:pool-workers-to-vitest-plugin pnpm @cloudflare/codemods
Chat SDK adds Instagram adapter
You can now build bots for Instagram with the new for Chat SDK.Instagram adapter Bots can send and receive DMs and media, render cards as quick replies and link buttons, show typing indicators, receive reactions, and handle story replies. The adapter connects through Meta's Instagram Messaging API and requires a professional Business or Creator account. Messages are buffered, so streamed responses send as one message when the stream completes. Meta enforces a 24-hour messaging window, so bots c
7 lessons for IT leaders on using observability to monitor AI applications
Discover the seven lessons we learned as we evolve our LLM observability practice to monitor and improve our AI applications.
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