Changelog
New updates and improvements at Cloudflare.
You can now stage and test cache configurations before deploying them to production. Versioned environments let you safely validate cache rules, purge operations, and configuration changes without affecting live traffic.
With versioned environments, you can:
- Create staging versions of your cache configuration.
- Test cache rules in a non-production environment.
- Purge staged content independently from production.
- Validate changes before promoting to production.
This capability integrates with Cloudflare's broader versioning system, allowing you to manage cache configurations alongside other zone settings.
- Risk-free testing: Validate configuration changes without impacting production.
- Independent purging: Clear staging cache without affecting live content.
- Deployment confidence: Catch issues before they reach end users.
- Team collaboration: Multiple team members can work on different versions.
To get started, refer to the version management documentation.
Enterprise customers can now optimize cache hit ratios for content that varies by device, language, or referrer by sharding cache using up to ten values from previously restricted headers with custom cache keys.
When configuring custom cache keys, you can now include values from these headers to create distinct cache entries:
accept*headers (for example,accept,accept-encoding,accept-language): Serve different cached versions based on content negotiation.refererheader: Cache content differently based on the referring page or site.user-agentheader: Maintain separate caches for different browsers, devices, or bots.
- Content varies significantly by device type (mobile vs desktop).
- Different language or encoding preferences require distinct responses.
- Referrer-specific content optimization is needed.
{"cache_key": {"custom_key": {"header": {"include": ["accept-language", "user-agent"],"check_presence": ["referer"]}}}}This configuration creates separate cache entries based on the
accept-languageanduser-agentheaders, while also considering whether therefererheader is present.To get started, refer to the custom cache keys documentation.
It’s now easy to create wildcard-based URL Rewrites. No need for complex functions—just define your patterns and go.
What’s improved:
- Full wildcard support – Create rewrite patterns using intuitive interface.
- Simplified rule creation – No need for complex functions.
Try it via creating a Rewrite URL rule in the dashboard.
You can now create optimized cache rules instantly with one-click templates, eliminating the complexity of manual rule configuration.
- Navigate to Rules > Templates in your Cloudflare dashboard.
- Select a template for your use case.
- Click to apply the template with sensible defaults.
- Customize as needed for your specific requirements.
- Cache everything: Adjust the cache level for all requests.
- Bypass cache for everything: Bypass cache for all requests.
- Cache default file extensions: Replicate Page Rules caching behavior by making only default extensions eligible for cache.
- Bypass cache on cookie: Bypass cache for requests containing specific cookies.
- Set edge cache time: Cache responses with status code between 200 and 599 on the Cloudflare edge.
- Set browser cache time: Adjust how long a browser should cache a resource.
To get started, go to Rules > Templates ↗ in the dashboard. For more information, refer to the Cache Rules documentation.
Now, you can create common rule configurations in just one click using Rules Templates.
What you can do:
- Pick a pre-built rule – Choose from a library of templates.
- One-click setup – Deploy best practices instantly.
- Customize as needed – Adjust templates to fit your setup.
Template cards are now also available directly in the rule builder for each product.
Need more ideas? Check out the Examples gallery in our documentation.
You can now achieve higher cache hit ratios with Generic Global Tiered Cache. Regional content hashing routes content consistently to the same upper-tier data centers, eliminating redundant caching and reducing origin load.
Regional content hashing groups data centers by region and uses consistent hashing to route content to designated upper-tier caches:
- Same content always routes to the same upper-tier data center within a region.
- Eliminates redundant copies across multiple upper-tier caches.
- Increases the likelihood of cache HITs for the same content.
A popular image requested from multiple edge locations in a region:
- Before: Cached at 3-4 different upper-tier data centers
- After: Cached at 1 designated upper-tier data center
- Result: 3-4x fewer cache MISSes, reducing origin load and improving performance
To get started, enable Generic Global Tiered Cache on your zone.
You can now easily enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) monitoring for your hostnames, while safely dropping requests from visitors in the European Union to comply with GDPR and CCPA.
Our Web Analytics product has always been centered on giving you insights into your users' experience that you need to provide the best quality experience, without sacrificing user privacy in the process.
To help with that aim, you can now selectively enable RUM monitoring for your hostname and exclude EU visitor data in a single click. If you opt for this option, we will drop all metrics collected by our EU data centeres automatically.
You can learn more about what metrics are reported by Web Analytics and how it is collected in the Web Analytics documentation. You can enable Web Analytics on any hostname by going to the Web Analytics ↗ section of the dashboard, selecting "Manage Site" for the hostname you want to monitor, and choosing the appropriate enablement option.