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WAF - WAF Release - 2026-08-07

This release updates WordPress XSS rule metadata in the Cloudflare Managed Ruleset and Cloudflare Free Ruleset to identify XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638). It also disables the Command Injection - Obfuscation rule. Key Findings CVE-2026-64638: A pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting the WordPress login screen. Exploitation requires social engineering and explicit interaction by the target user. Under additional conditions, it may be escalated to remote code executi

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Hyperdrive - Restart a Hyperdrive configuration from the dashboard

You can now restart a Hyperdrive configuration from the Cloudflare dashboard. Restarting drains the connection pool and forces Hyperdrive to establish new connections to your origin database. Restarting is a break-glass action. Hyperdrive automatically detects and recovers from most database failovers. Use a manual restart only when you need to force the pool to drain immediately. To restart, select your Hyperdrive configuration in the Cloudflare dashboard ↗, go to the Settings tab, and select R

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Sandbox SDK - Sandbox SDK 1.0 preview on @next

Sandbox SDK 1.0 is available to preview under the npm @next tag. For existing applications, the current stable package remains published on the 0.12.x line. Sandbox SDK first shipped to provide a rich library for running untrusted and agent-driven work on Cloudflare Containers. Since then, both Sandbox and Containers have matured. This preview is a thinner SDK built on a richer Cloudflare Containers foundation. npmyarnpnpmbun npm i @cloudflare/sandbox@next yarn add @cloudflare/sandbox@nex

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Hyperdrive - MySQL support in Hyperdrive is now generally available

Support for MySQL in Hyperdrive is now generally available. You can connect to any MySQL database from your Workers using Hyperdrive. Hyperdrive makes your regional, MySQL databases fast when connecting from Cloudflare Workers. It eliminates unnecessary network roundtrips during connection setup, pools database connections globally, and can cache query results to provide the fastest possible response times. You can connect using your existing drivers, ORMs, and query builders with Hyperdrive's s

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AI Gateway, Workers AI - Workers AI and AI Gateway unify model access and billing

Workers AI and AI Gateway now provide a unified path for accessing models and managing inference traffic. Use the same AI binding and REST API to call models hosted on Workers AI or by supported third-party providers, with AI Gateway providing observability, logging, caching, security, and billing controls. Unified entrypoints and observability The AI binding supports both Workers AI and third-party models through env.AI.run(). The REST API provides shared /ai/ endpoints with Cloudflare authen

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Cloudflare Mesh, Cloudflare One - Container image for Cloudflare Mesh

Cloudflare Mesh nodes can now run as Docker containers. The cloudflare/mesh ↗ image is available on Docker Hub for Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and any OCI-compatible runtime — no host-level package installation required. The image supports amd64 and arm64 architectures and includes built-in source NAT so return traffic routes correctly without VPC route table changes. Deployment patterns Docker Compose — add a cloudflare-mesh service to your compose.yaml and connect your entire stack to a priv

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Radar - AS-level connectivity and upstream providers on Cloudflare Radar

Radar expands its Routing section ↗ with two widgets on AS pages, such as AS13335 ↗, that describe how a network reaches the rest of the Internet: the paths it takes toward the Tier-1 ↗ networks, and the mix of direct upstreams carrying its routes. Both are derived from RouteViews ↗ RIB snapshots, unioned across selected collectors. AS-level connectivity The AS-level connectivity graph aggregates the BGP paths an AS uses to reach the Tier-1 networks, unioned across all the prefixes it announce

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Radar - Radar Researcher beta and WebMCP support now available

Cloudflare Radar now includes Radar Researcher ↗, a beta AI-powered assistant for exploring Internet trends and traffic data in plain language. Open Researcher from the header on any Radar page to ask questions by voice or text, receive explanations, and view interactive charts based on Radar API data. To ask about a specific chart, select Explain with AI to start a conversation with its underlying data and context. You can explore further with suggested follow-up questions, find earlier convers

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