Browser Rendering REST API rate limits for Workers Paid plans have been increased from 3 requests per second (180/min) to 10 requests per second (600/min). No action is needed to benefit from the higher limit.
The REST API lets you perform common browser tasks with a single API call, and you can now do it at a higher rate.
You can now use user risk scores in your Access policies. The new User Risk Score selector allows you to create Access policies that respond to user behavior patterns detected by Cloudflare's risk scoring system, including impossible travel, high DLP policy matches, and more.
Previously, proxy endpoints relied on static source IP addresses to authorize traffic, providing no user-level identity in logs or policies. The new authorization proxy replaces IP-based authorization with Cloudflare Access authentication, verifying who a user is before applying Gateway filtering without installing the WARP client.
This is ideal for environments where you cannot deploy a device client, such as virtual desktops (VDI), mergers and acquisitions, or compliance-restricted endpoints.
Key capabilities
Identity-aware proxy traffic — Users authenticate through your identity provider (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and others) via Cloudflare Access. Logs now show exactly which user accessed which site, and you can write identity-based policies like "only the Finance team can access this accounting tool."
Multiple identity providers — Display one or multiple login methods simultaneously, giving flexibility for organizations managing users across different identity systems.
Cloudflare-hosted PAC files — Create and host PAC files directly in Cloudflare One with pre-configured templates for Okta and Azure, hosted at https://pac.cloudflare-gateway.com/<account-id>/<slug> on Cloudflare's global network.
Simplified billing — Each user occupies a seat, exactly like they do with the Cloudflare One Client. No new metrics to track.
Get started
In Cloudflare One ↗, go to Networks > Resolvers & Proxies > Proxy endpoints.
Previously, each instance was limited to 1,024 steps. Now, Workflows can support more complex, long-running executions without the additional complexity of recursive or child workflow calls.
Note that the maximum persisted state limit per Workflow instance remains 100 MB for Workers Free and 1 GB for Workers Paid. Refer to Workflows limits for more information.
Sandboxes now support real-time filesystem watching via sandbox.watch(). The method returns a Server-Sent Events ↗ stream backed by native inotify, so your Worker receives create, modify, delete, and move events as they happen inside the container.
sandbox.watch(path, options)
Pass a directory path and optional filters. The returned stream is a standard ReadableStream you can proxy directly to a browser client or consume server-side.
// Stream events to a browser clientconst stream = await sandbox.watch("/workspace/src", { recursive: true, include: ["*.ts", "*.js"],});return new Response(stream, { headers: { "Content-Type": "text/event-stream" },});
// Stream events to a browser clientconst stream = await sandbox.watch("/workspace/src", { recursive: true, include: ["*.ts", "*.js"],});return new Response(stream, { headers: { "Content-Type": "text/event-stream" },});
Server-side consumption with parseSSEStream
Use parseSSEStream to iterate over events inside a Worker without forwarding them to a client.
import { parseSSEStream } from "@cloudflare/sandbox";import type { FileWatchSSEEvent } from "@cloudflare/sandbox";const stream = await sandbox.watch("/workspace/src", { recursive: true });for await (const event of parseSSEStream<FileWatchSSEEvent>(stream)) { console.log(event.type, event.path);}
Each event includes a type field (create, modify, delete, or move) and the affected path. Move events also include a from field with the original path.
Options
Option
Type
Description
recursive
boolean
Watch subdirectories. Defaults to false.
include
string[]
Glob patterns to filter events. Omit to receive all events.
Radar now includes a Network Quality Test ↗ page. The tool measures Internet connection quality and performance, showing connection details such as IP address, server location, network (ASN), and IP version. For more detailed speed test results, the page links to speed.cloudflare.com ↗.
The latest release of the Agents SDK ↗ rewrites observability from scratch with diagnostics_channel, adds keepAlive() to prevent Durable Object eviction during long-running work, and introduces waitForMcpConnections so MCP tools are always available when onChatMessage runs.
Observability rewrite
The previous observability system used console.log() with a custom Observability.emit() interface. v0.7.0 replaces it with structured events published to diagnostics channels — silent by default, zero overhead when nobody is listening.
Every event has a type, payload, and timestamp. Events are routed to seven named channels:
Use the typed subscribe() helper from agents/observability for type-safe access:
import { subscribe } from "agents/observability";const unsub = subscribe("rpc", (event) => { if (event.type === "rpc") { console.log(`RPC call: ${event.payload.method}`); } if (event.type === "rpc:error") { console.error( `RPC failed: ${event.payload.method} — ${event.payload.error}`, ); }});// Clean up when doneunsub();
import { subscribe } from "agents/observability";const unsub = subscribe("rpc", (event) => { if (event.type === "rpc") { console.log(`RPC call: ${event.payload.method}`); } if (event.type === "rpc:error") { console.error( `RPC failed: ${event.payload.method} — ${event.payload.error}`, ); }});// Clean up when doneunsub();
In production, all diagnostics channel messages are automatically forwarded to Tail Workers — no subscription code needed in the agent itself:
export default { async tail(events) { for (const event of events) { for (const msg of event.diagnosticsChannelEvents) { // msg.channel is "agents:rpc", "agents:workflow", etc. console.log(msg.timestamp, msg.channel, msg.message); } } },};
export default { async tail(events) { for (const event of events) { for (const msg of event.diagnosticsChannelEvents) { // msg.channel is "agents:rpc", "agents:workflow", etc. console.log(msg.timestamp, msg.channel, msg.message); } } },};
The custom Observability override interface is still supported for users who need to filter or forward events to external services.
Durable Objects are evicted after a period of inactivity (typically 70-140 seconds with no incoming requests, WebSocket messages, or alarms). During long-running operations — streaming LLM responses, waiting on external APIs, running multi-step computations — the agent can be evicted mid-flight.
keepAlive() prevents this by creating a 30-second heartbeat schedule. The alarm firing resets the inactivity timer. Returns a disposer function that cancels the heartbeat when called.
AIChatAgent now waits for MCP server connections to settle before calling onChatMessage. This ensures this.mcp.getAITools() returns the full set of tools, especially after Durable Object hibernation when connections are being restored in the background.
For lower-level control, call this.mcp.waitForConnections() directly inside onChatMessage instead.
Other improvements
MCP deduplication by name and URL — addMcpServer with HTTP transport now deduplicates on both server name and URL. Calling it with the same name but a different URL creates a new connection. URLs are normalized before comparison (trailing slashes, default ports, hostname case).
callbackHost optional for non-OAuth servers — addMcpServer no longer requires callbackHost when connecting to MCP servers that do not use OAuth.
MCP URL security — Server URLs are validated before connection to prevent SSRF. Private IP ranges, loopback addresses, link-local addresses, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked.
Custom denial messages — addToolOutput now supports state: "output-error" with errorText for custom denial messages in human-in-the-loop tool approval flows.
requestId in chat options — onChatMessage options now include a requestId for logging and correlating events.
You can now start using AI Gateway with a single API call — no setup required. Use default as your gateway ID, and AI Gateway creates one for you automatically on the first request.
To try it out, create an API token with AI Gateway - Read, AI Gateway - Edit, and Workers AI - Read permissions, then run:
AI Gateway gives you logging, caching, rate limiting, and access to multiple AI providers through a single endpoint. For more information, refer to Get started.
You can now copy Cloudflare One resources as JSON or as a ready-to-use API POST request directly from the dashboard. This makes it simple to transition workflows into API calls, automation scripts, or infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
To use this feature, click the overflow menu (⋮) on any supported resource and select Copy as JSON or Copy as POST request. The copied output includes only the fields present on your resource, giving you a clean and minimal starting point for your own API calls.
Initially supported resources:
Access applications
Access policies
Gateway policies
Resolver policies
Service tokens
Identity providers
We will continue to add support for more resources throughout 2026.
This week's release introduces new detections for vulnerabilities in SmarterTools SmarterMail (CVE-2025-52691 and CVE-2026-23760), alongside improvements to an existing Command Injection (nslookup) detection to enhance coverage.
Key Findings
CVE-2025-52691: SmarterTools SmarterMail mail server is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to upload files to any location on the mail server, potentially enabling remote code execution.
CVE-2026-23760: SmarterTools SmarterMail versions prior to build 9511 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the password reset API permitting unaunthenticated to reset system administrator accounts failing to verify existing password or reset token.
Impact
Successful exploitation of these SmarterMail vulnerabilities could lead to full system compromise or unauthorized administrative access to mail servers. Administrators are strongly encouraged to apply vendor patches without delay.
You can now configure clipboard controls for browser-based RDP with Cloudflare Access. Clipboard controls allow administrators to restrict whether users can copy or paste text between their local machine and the remote Windows server.
This feature is useful for organizations that support bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies or third-party contractors using unmanaged devices. By restricting clipboard access, you can prevent sensitive data from being transferred out of the remote session to a user's personal device.
Configuration options
Clipboard controls are configured per policy within your Access application. For each policy, you can independently allow or deny:
Copy from local client to remote RDP session — Users can copy/paste text from their local machine into the browser-based RDP session.
Copy from remote RDP session to local client — Users can copy/paste text from the browser-based RDP session to their local machine.
By default, both directions are denied for new policies. For existing Access applications created before this feature was available, clipboard access remains enabled to preserve backwards compatibility.
When a user attempts a restricted clipboard action, the clipboard content is replaced with an error message informing them that the action is not allowed.
MCP server portals now supports Logpush integration. You can automatically export MCP server portal activity logs to third-party storage destinations or security information and event management (SIEM) tools for analysis and auditing.
Available log fields
The MCP server portal logs dataset includes fields such as:
Datetime — Timestamp of the request
PortalID / PortalAUD — Portal identifiers
ServerID / ServerURL — Upstream MCP server details
Method — JSON-RPC method (for example, tools/call, prompts/get, resources/read)
Gateway Protocol Detection now supports seven additional protocols in beta:
Protocol
Notes
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol — email retrieval
POP3
Post Office Protocol v3 — email retrieval
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol — email sending
MYSQL
MySQL database wire protocol
RSYNC-DAEMON
rsync daemon protocol
LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
NTP
Network Time Protocol
These protocols join the existing set of detected protocols (HTTP, HTTP2, SSH, TLS, DCERPC, MQTT, and TPKT) and can be used with the Detected Protocol selector in Network policies to identify and filter traffic based on the application-layer protocol, without relying on port-based identification.
If protocol detection is enabled on your account, these protocols will automatically be logged when detected in your Gateway network traffic.
Radar now tracks post-quantum encryption support on origin servers, provides a tool to test any host for post-quantum compatibility, and introduces a Key Transparency dashboard for monitoring end-to-end encrypted messaging audit logs.
Post-quantum origin support
The new Post-Quantum API provides the following endpoints:
The new Post-Quantum Encryption ↗ page shows the share of customer origins supporting X25519MLKEM768, derived from daily automated TLS scans of TLS 1.3-compatible origins. The scanner tests for algorithm support rather than the origin server's configured preference.
A host test tool allows checking any publicly accessible website for post-quantum encryption compatibility. Enter a hostname and optional port to see whether the server negotiates a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.
Key Transparency
A new Key Transparency ↗ section displays the audit status of Key Transparency logs for end-to-end encrypted messaging services. The page launches with two monitored logs: WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger Transport.
Each log card shows the current status, last signed epoch, last verified epoch, and the root hash of the Auditable Key Directory tree. The data is also available through the Key Transparency Auditor API.
Cloudflare's stale-while-revalidate support is now fully asynchronous. Previously, the first request for a stale (expired) asset in cache had to wait for an origin response, after which that visitor received a REVALIDATED or EXPIRED status. Now, the first request after the asset expires triggers revalidation in the background and immediately receives stale content with an UPDATING status. All following requests also receive stale content with an UPDATING status until the origin responds, after which subsequent requests receive fresh content with a HIT status.
stale-while-revalidate is a Cache-Control directive set by your origin server that allows Cloudflare to serve an expired cached asset while a fresh copy is fetched from the origin.
Asynchronous revalidation brings:
Lower latency: No visitor is waiting for the origin when the asset is already in cache. Every request is served from cache during revalidation.
Consistent experience: All visitors receive the same cached response during revalidation.
Reduced error exposure: The first request is no longer vulnerable to origin timeouts or errors. All visitors receive a cached response while revalidation happens in the background.
Availability
This change is live for all Free, Pro, and Business zones. Approximately 75% of Enterprise zones have been migrated, with the remaining zones rolling out throughout the quarter.
Get started
To use this feature, make sure your origin includes the stale-while-revalidate directive in the Cache-Control header. Refer to the Cache-Control documentation for details.
Cloudflare now returns structured Markdown responses for Cloudflare-generated 1xxx errors when clients send Accept: text/markdown.
Each response includes YAML frontmatter plus guidance sections (What happened / What you should do) so agents can make deterministic retry and escalation decisions without parsing HTML.
In measured 1,015 comparisons, Markdown reduced payload size and token footprint by over 98% versus HTML.
When multiple values are present, Cloudflare selects the highest-priority supported media type using q values. If Markdown is not explicitly preferred, HTML is returned.
Availability
Available now for Cloudflare-generated 1xxx errors.
The latest release of the Agents SDK ↗ lets you define an Agent and an McpAgent in the same Worker and connect them over RPC — no HTTP, no network overhead. It also makes OAuth opt-in for simple MCP connections, hardens the schema converter for production workloads, and ships a batch of @cloudflare/ai-chat reliability fixes.
RPC transport for MCP
You can now connect an Agent to an McpAgent in the same Worker using a Durable Object binding instead of an HTTP URL. The connection stays entirely within the Cloudflare runtime — no network round-trips, no serialization overhead.
Pass the Durable Object namespace directly to addMcpServer:
import { Agent } from "agents";export class MyAgent extends Agent { async onStart() { // Connect via DO binding — no HTTP, no network overhead await this.addMcpServer("counter", env.MY_MCP); // With props for per-user context await this.addMcpServer("counter", env.MY_MCP, { props: { userId: "user-123", role: "admin" }, }); }}
import { Agent } from "agents";export class MyAgent extends Agent { async onStart() { // Connect via DO binding — no HTTP, no network overhead await this.addMcpServer("counter", env.MY_MCP); // With props for per-user context await this.addMcpServer("counter", env.MY_MCP, { props: { userId: "user-123", role: "admin" }, }); }}
The addMcpServer method now accepts string | DurableObjectNamespace as the second parameter with full TypeScript overloads, so HTTP and RPC paths are type-safe and cannot be mixed.
Key capabilities:
Hibernation support — RPC connections survive Durable Object hibernation automatically. The binding name and props are persisted to storage and restored on wake-up, matching the behavior of HTTP MCP connections.
Deduplication — Calling addMcpServer with the same server name returns the existing connection instead of creating duplicates. Connection IDs are stable across hibernation restore.
Smaller surface area — The RPC transport internals have been rewritten and reduced from 609 lines to 245 lines. RPCServerTransport now uses JSONRPCMessageSchema from the MCP SDK for validation instead of hand-written checks.
Optional OAuth for MCP connections
addMcpServer() no longer eagerly creates an OAuth provider for every connection. For servers that do not require authentication, a simple call is all you need:
// No callbackHost, no OAuth config — just worksawait this.addMcpServer("my-server", "https://mcp.example.com");
// No callbackHost, no OAuth config — just worksawait this.addMcpServer("my-server", "https://mcp.example.com");
If the server responds with a 401, the SDK throws a clear error: "This MCP server requires OAuth authentication. Provide callbackHost in addMcpServer options to enable the OAuth flow." The restore-from-storage flow also handles missing callback URLs gracefully, skipping auth provider creation for non-OAuth servers.
Hardened JSON Schema to TypeScript converter
The schema converter used by generateTypes() and getAITools() now handles edge cases that previously caused crashes in production:
Depth and circular reference guards — Prevents stack overflows on recursive or deeply nested schemas
Tuple support — prefixItems (JSON Schema 2020-12) and array items (draft-07)
OpenAPI 3.0 nullable: true — Supported across all schema branches
Per-tool error isolation — One malformed schema cannot crash the full pipeline in generateTypes() or getAITools()
Missing inputSchema fallback — getAITools() falls back to { type: "object" } instead of throwing
@cloudflare/ai-chat fixes
Tool denial flow — Denied tool approvals (approved: false) now transition to output-denied with a tool_result, fixing Anthropic provider compatibility. Custom denial messages are supported via state: "output-error" and errorText.
Abort/cancel support — Streaming responses now properly cancel the reader loop when the abort signal fires and send a done signal to the client.
Duplicate message persistence — persistMessages() now reconciles assistant messages by content and order, preventing duplicate rows when clients resend full history.
requestId in OnChatMessageOptions — Handlers can now send properly-tagged error responses for pre-stream failures.
redacted_thinking preservation — The message sanitizer no longer strips Anthropic redacted_thinking blocks.
/get-messages reliability — Endpoint handling moved from a prototype onRequest() override to a constructor wrapper, so it works even when users override onRequest without calling super.onRequest().
Client tool APIs undeprecated — createToolsFromClientSchemas, clientTools, AITool, extractClientToolSchemas, and the tools option on useAgentChat are restored for SDK use cases where tools are defined dynamically at runtime.
jsonSchema initialization — Fixed jsonSchema not initialized error when calling getAITools() in onChatMessage.
You can now run more Containers concurrently with significantly higher limits on memory, vCPU, and disk.
Limit
Previous Limit
New Limit
Memory for concurrent live Container instances
400GiB
6TiB
vCPU for concurrent live Container instances
100
1,500
Disk for concurrent live Container instances
2TB
30TB
This 15x increase enables larger-scale workloads on Containers. You can now run 15,000 instances of the lite instance type, 6,000 instances of basic, over 1,500 instances of standard-1, or over 1,000 instances of standard-2 concurrently.
Refer to Limits for more details on the available instance types and limits.
The global routing page ↗ now shows the ASPA deployment trend over time by counting daily ASPA objects.
The global routing page also displays the most recent ASPA objects, searchable by ASN or AS name.
On country and region routing pages, a new widget shows the ASPA deployment rate for ASNs registered in the selected country or region.
On AS routing pages, the connectivity table now includes checkmarks for ASPA-verified upstreams. All ASPA upstreams are listed in a dedicated table, and a timeline shows ASPA changes at daily granularity.
Pywrangler ↗, the CLI tool for managing Python Workers and packages,
now supports Windows, allowing you to develop and deploy Python Workers from Windows environments.
Previously, Pywrangler was only available on macOS and Linux.
You can install and use Pywrangler on Windows the same way you would on other platforms.
Specify your Worker's Python dependencies in your pyproject.toml file,
then use the following commands to develop and deploy:
All existing Pywrangler functionality, including package management, local development, and deployment, works on Windows without any additional configuration.
Requirements
This feature requires the following minimum versions:
wrangler >= 4.64.0
workers-py >= 1.72.0
uv >= 0.29.8
To upgrade workers-py (which includes Pywrangler) in your project, run:
uv tool upgrade workers-py
To upgrade wrangler, run:
npm install -g wrangler@latest
To upgrade uv, run:
uv self update
To get started with Python Workers on Windows, refer to the Python packages documentation for full details on Pywrangler.
Workers Observability now includes a query language that lets you write structured queries directly in the search bar to filter your logs and traces. The search bar doubles as a free text search box — type any term to search across all metadata and attributes, or write field-level queries for precise filtering.
Queries written in the search bar sync with the Query Builder sidebar, so you can write a query by hand and then refine it visually, or build filters in the Query Builder and see the corresponding query syntax. The search bar provides autocomplete suggestions for metadata fields and operators as you type.
The query language supports:
Free text search — search everywhere with a keyword like error, or match an exact phrase with "exact phrase"
Field queries — filter by specific fields using comparison operators (for example, status = 500 or $workers.wallTimeMs > 100)
Operators — =, !=, >, >=, <, <=, and : (contains)
Functions — contains(field, value), startsWith(field, prefix), regex(field, pattern), and exists(field)
Boolean logic — add conditions with AND, OR, and NOT
Select the help icon next to the search bar to view the full syntax reference, including all supported operators, functions, and keyboard shortcuts.
This release contains minor fixes, improvements, and new features.
Changes and improvements
Improvements to multi-user mode. Fixed an issue where when switching from a pre-login registration to a user registration, Mobile Device Management (MDM) configuration association could be lost.
Added a new feature to manage NetBIOS over TCP/IP functionality on the Windows client. NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the Windows client is now disabled by default and can be enabled in device profile settings.
Fixed an issue causing failure of the local network exclusion feature when configured with a timeout of 0.
Improvement for the Windows client certificate posture check to ensure logged results are from checks that run once users log in.
Improvement for more accurate reporting of device colocation information in the Cloudflare One dashboard.
Fixed an issue where misconfigured DEX HTTP tests prevented new registrations.
Fixed an issue causing DNS requests to fail with clients in Traffic and DNS mode.
Improved service shutdown behavior in cases where the daemon is unresponsive.
Known issues
For Windows 11 24H2 users, Microsoft has confirmed a regression that may lead to performance issues like mouse lag, audio cracking, or other slowdowns. Cloudflare recommends users experiencing these issues upgrade to a minimum Windows 11 24H2 KB5062553 or higher for resolution.
Devices with KB5055523 installed may receive a warning about Win32/ClickFix.ABA being present in the installer. To resolve this false positive, update Microsoft Security Intelligence to version 1.429.19.0 or later.
DNS resolution may be broken when the following conditions are all true:
WARP is in Secure Web Gateway without DNS filtering (tunnel-only) mode.
A custom DNS server address is configured on the primary network adapter.
The custom DNS server address on the primary network adapter is changed while WARP is connected.
To work around this issue, reconnect the WARP client by toggling off and back on.