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Expanding DigitalOcean’s Role-Based Access Controls with custom roles
Today, we are excited to announce our latest Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) feature, custom roles. With custom roles, teams can now assign permissions to individuals that are precisely aligned with their operational and security requirements, reinforcing the principle of least privilege. This allows for more precise permission management, which helps to enhance overall infrastructure security by reducing the risk of over-privileged accounts. Custom roles give you full control over who can do w
Node.js LGBTQIA+ Stories: Emelia Smith
AI in Australia—OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint
Today, OpenAI, in partnership with Mandala Partners, is sharing the OpenAI AI Economic Blueprint for Australia. At a time when boosting productivity has emerged as a national priority for Australia, the Blueprint provides a clear, actionable plan for how Australia can unlock the full economic and social potential of artificial intelligence.
Workers - Remote bindings (beta) now works with Next.js — connect to remote resources (D1, KV, R2, etc.) during local development
We recently announced ↗ our public beta for remote bindings, which allow you to connect to deployed resources running on your Cloudflare account (like R2 buckets or D1 databases) while running a local development session. Now, you can use remote bindings with your Next.js applications through the @opennextjs/cloudflare adaptor ↗ by enabling the experimental feature in your next.config.ts: - initOpenNextCloudflareForDev(); + initOpenNextCloudflareForDev({ + experimental: { remoteBindings: true }
Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Agent for Android (version 2.4.2)
A new GA release for the Android Cloudflare One Agent is now available in the Google Play Store. This release contains improvements and new exciting features, including post-quantum cryptography. By tunneling your corporate network traffic over Cloudflare, you can now gain the immediate protection of post-quantum cryptography without needing to upgrade any of your individual corporate applications or systems. Changes and improvements QLogs are now disabled by default and can be enabled in the ap
Cloudflare One Client - Cloudflare One Agent for iOS (version 1.11)
A new GA release for the iOS Cloudflare One Agent is now available in the iOS App Store. This release contains improvements and new exciting features, including post-quantum cryptography. By tunneling your corporate network traffic over Cloudflare, you can now gain the immediate protection of post-quantum cryptography without needing to upgrade any of your individual corporate applications or systems. Changes and improvements QLogs are now disabled by default and can be enabled in the app by tur
Email Routing - Mail authentication requirements for Email Routing
The Email Routing platform supports SPF records and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signatures and honors these protocols when the sending domain has them configured. However, if the sending domain doesn't implement them, we still forward the emails to upstream mailbox providers. Starting on July 3, 2025, we will require all emails to be authenticated using at least one of the protocols, SPF or DKIM, to forward them. We also strongly recommend that all senders implement the DMARC protocol. If
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