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Vercel Blog

Support for TanStack Start

Vercel detects and supports TanStack Start applications, a full-stack framework powered by TanStack Router for React and Solid. or add nitro() to vite.config.ts in your existing application to easily deploy your projects:Create a new TanStack Start app TanStack Start apps on Vercel use with by default. This means your TanStack Start app will automatically scale up and down based on traffic, and you only pay for what you use, not for idle function time.Fluid computeActive CPU pricing Visit the

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Model fallbacks now available in Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel's now supports for when models fail or are unavailable. In addition to safeguarding against provider-level failures, model fallbacks can help with errors and capability mismatches between models (e.g., multimodal, tool-calling, etc.).AI Gatewayfallback models Fallback models will be tried in the specified order until a request succeeds or no options remain. Any error, such as context limits, unsupported inputs, or provider outages, can trigger a fallback. Requests are billed based on th

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Vercel: The anti-vendor-lock-in cloud

Vendor lock-in matters when choosing a cloud platform. Cloud platforms can lock you in by requiring you to build against their specific primitives. Vercel takes a different approach: you write code for your framework, not for Vercel. On AWS, you configure Lambda functions, NAT Gateways, and DynamoDB tables. On Cloudflare, you write Workers, use KV stores, Durable Objects, and bind services with Worker Service Bindings. These primitives only exist with that vendor, which means migrating to anothe

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OpenAI News

Free ChatGPT for transitioning U.S. servicemembers and veterans

OpenAI is offering U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation a free year of ChatGPT Plus to support their transition to civilian life. The tools can help with resumes, interviews, education, and planning for what’s next.

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Cloudflare Changelog

AI Crawl Control - Crawler drilldowns with extended actions menu

AI Crawl Control now supports per-crawler drilldowns with an extended actions menu and status code analytics. Drill down into Metrics, Cloudflare Radar, and Security Analytics, or export crawler data for use in WAF custom rules, Redirect Rules, and robots.txt files. What's new Status code distribution chart The Metrics tab includes a status code distribution chart showing HTTP response codes (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) over time. Filter by individual crawler, category, operator, or time range to analyz

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Cloudflare Changelog

WAF - WAF Release - 2025-11-10

This week’s release introduces new detections for Prototype Pollution across three common vectors: URI, Body, and Header/Form. Key Findings These attacks can affect both API and web applications by altering normal behavior or bypassing security controls. Impact Exploitation may allow attackers to change internal logic or cause unexpected behavior in applications using JavaScript or Node.js frameworks. Developers should sanitize input keys and avoid merging untrusted data structures. RulesetRule

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Cloudflare Changelog

Workers - Select Wrangler environments using the CLOUDFLARE_ENV environment variable

Wrangler now supports using the CLOUDFLARE_ENV environment variable to select the active environment for your Worker commands. This provides a more flexible way to manage environments, especially when working with build tools and CI/CD pipelines. What's new Environment selection via environment variable: Set CLOUDFLARE_ENV to specify which environment to use for Wrangler commands Works with all Wrangler commands that support the --env flag The --env command line argument takes precedence over th

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Vercel Blog

Vercel Sandbox CLI is now available

We’ve introduced the Vercel Sandbox CLI, a command-line interface for managing isolated compute environments. Built on the familiar Docker CLI model, developers can now: Full reference now available in the .Sandbox CLI docs Read more Create and run sandboxes for Node.js () or Python () workloads.node22python3.13 Execute commands inside existing sandboxes. Copy files between local and remote environments. List, stop, and remove sandboxes across projects and teams. Run interactively with supp

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