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Email security - Set expiration dates for Email security policies

Email security now lets you set an expiration date when creating an allow or block policy. This helps you apply temporary policy changes without removing them manually. After the selected date passes, the policy expires and no longer applies. This feature is available to all Email security customers, regardless of plan.

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Durable Objects, Workers - Automatic retries for Durable Object calls

The runtime now retries fetch() and RPC calls to a Durable Object when they fail with a retryable error before reaching it. This applies whether the caller is a Worker or another Durable Object. Short disruptions, such as brief network interruptions, no longer need a retry loop in your code. By default, the runtime retries a call up to four times, and starts no retry more than 10 seconds after the initial call starts. It does not retry errors thrown by your Durable Object code, or errors with .o

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Workers AI - Planned model deprecations on Workers AI

We are refreshing the Workers AI model catalog to make room for new releases and updated models. Update your apps to remove references to the models listed below before November 15, 2026. We recommend moving to newer models for the best token efficiency and throughput. For pricing, refer to the Workers AI pricing page. Recommended LLM replacements For frontier model needs: @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 and @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3. For smaller model needs: @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it a

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