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Vercel Blog

Protectd: Evolving Vercel’s always-on denial-of-service mitigations

Securing web applications is core to the Vercel platform. It’s built into every request, every deployment, every layer of our infrastructure. Our always-on Denial-of-Service (DoS) mitigations have long run by default—silently blocking attacks before they ever reach your applications. Last year, we made those always-on mitigations visible with the release of the , which allows you to inspect traffic, apply custom rules, and understand how the platform defends your deployments.Vercel Firewall Now,

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Trigger GitHub Actions with enriched deployment data from Vercel

You can now trigger GitHub Actions workflows in response to Vercel deployment events with enriched data using . These events are sent from Vercel to GitHub, enabling more flexible, cost-efficient CI workflows, and easier . eventsrepository_dispatchend-to-end testing for Vercel deployments Previously, we recommended using , but these payloads were limited and required extra parsing or investigation to understand what changed. eventsdeployment_status With , Vercel sends custom JSON payloads with

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Agents, Workers - Build MCP servers with the Agents SDK

The Agents SDK now includes built-in support for building remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers directly as part of your Agent. This allows you to easily create and manage MCP servers, without the need for additional infrastructure or configuration. The SDK includes a new MCPAgent class that extends the Agent class and allows you to expose resources and tools over the MCP protocol, as well as authorization and authentication to enable remote MCP servers. JavaScript export class MyMCP

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AI Search, Vectorize - Create fully-managed RAG pipelines for your AI applications with AutoRAG

AutoRAG is now in open beta, making it easy for you to build fully-managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines without managing infrastructure. Just upload your docs to R2, and AutoRAG handles the rest: embeddings, indexing, retrieval, and response generation via API. With AutoRAG, you can: Customize your pipeline: Choose from Workers AI models, configure chunking strategies, edit system prompts, and more. Instant setup: AutoRAG provisions everything you need from Vectorize, AI gatewa

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Browser Run - Browser Rendering REST API is Generally Available, with new endpoints and a free tier

We’re excited to announce Browser Rendering is now available on the Workers Free plan, making it even easier to prototype and experiment with web search and headless browser use-cases when building applications on Workers. The Browser Rendering REST API is now Generally Available, allowing you to control browser instances from outside of Workers applications. We've added three new endpoints to help automate more browser tasks: Extract structured data – Use /json to retrieve structured data from

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Cloudflare Changelog

Durable Objects, Workers - Durable Objects on Workers Free plan

Durable Objects can now be used with zero commitment on the Workers Free plan allowing you to build AI agents with Agents SDK, collaboration tools, and real-time applications like chat or multiplayer games. Durable Objects let you build stateful, serverless applications with millions of tiny coordination instances that run your application code alongside (in the same thread!) your durable storage. Each Durable Object can access its own SQLite database through a Storage API. A Durable Object clas

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Durable Objects, Workers - SQLite in Durable Objects GA with 10GB storage per object

SQLite in Durable Objects is now generally available (GA) with 10GB SQLite database per Durable Object. Since the public beta in September 2024, we've added feature parity and robustness for the SQLite storage backend compared to the preexisting key-value (KV) storage backend for Durable Objects. SQLite-backed Durable Objects are recommended for all new Durable Object classes, using new_sqlite_classes Wrangler configuration. Only SQLite-backed Durable Objects have access to Storage API's SQL and

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