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New updates and improvements at Cloudflare.

Increased disk space for Workers Builds

As part of the ongoing open beta for Workers Builds, we’ve increased the available disk space for builds from 8 GB to 20 GB for both Free and Paid plans.

This provides more space for larger projects, dependencies, and build artifacts while improving overall build reliability.

Metric Free Plan Paid Plans
Disk Space 20 GB 20 GB

All other build limits — including CPU, memory, build minutes, and timeout remain unchanged.

Terraform v5.8.2 now available

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of the new Terraform v5 Provider. We are aware of the high number of issues ↗︎ reported by the Cloudflare community related to the v5 release. We have committed to releasing improvements on a 2 week cadeance to ensure it's stability and reliability. We have also pivoted from an issue-to-issue approach to a resource-per-resource approach - we will be focusing on specific resources for every release, stabilizing the release and closing all associated bugs with that resource before moving onto resolving migration issues.

Thank you for continuing to raise issues. We triage them weekly and they help make our products stronger.

Changes

  • Resources stabilized:
    • cloudflare_custom_pages
    • cloudflare_page_rule
    • cloudflare_dns_record
    • cloudflare_argo_tiered_caching
  • Addressed chronic drift issues in cloudflare_logpush_job, cloudflare_zero_trust_dns_location, cloudflare_ruleset & cloudflare_api_token
  • cloudflare_zone_subscription returns expected values rate_plan.id from former versions
  • cloudflare_workers_script can now successfully be destroyed with bindings & migration for Durable Objects now recorded in tfstate
  • Ability to configure add_headers under cloudflare_zero_trust_gateway_policy
  • Other bug fixes

For a more detailed look at all of the changes, see the changelog ↗︎ in GitHub.

Issues Closed

If you have an unaddressed issue with the provider, we encourage you to check the open issues ↗︎ and open a new one if one does not already exist for what you are experiencing.

Upgrading

We suggest holding off on migration to v5 while we work on stabilization. This help will you avoid any blocking issues while the Terraform resources are actively being stabilized.

If you'd like more information on migrating from v4 to v5, please make use of the migration guide ↗︎. We have provided automated migration scripts using Grit which simplify the transition, although these do not support implementations which use Terraform modules, so customers making use of modules need to migrate manually. Please make use of terraform plan to test your changes before applying, and let us know if you encounter any additional issues by reporting to our GitHub repository ↗︎.

For more info

Develop locally with Containers and the Cloudflare Vite plugin

You can now configure and run Containers alongside your Worker during local development when using the Cloudflare Vite plugin. Previously, you could only develop locally when using Wrangler as your local development server.

Configuration

You can simply configure your Worker and your Container(s) in your Wrangler configuration file:

{
  "name": "container-starter",
  "main": "src/index.js",
  "containers": [
    {
      "class_name": "MyContainer",
      "image": "./Dockerfile",
      "instances": 5
    }
  ],
  "durable_objects": {
    "bindings": [
      {
        "class_name": "MyContainer",
        "name": "MY_CONTAINER"
      }
    ]
  },
  "migrations": [
    {
      "new_sqlite_classes": [
        "MyContainer"
      ],
      "tag": "v1"
    }
  ],
}
name = "container-starter"
main = "src/index.js"

[[containers]]
class_name = "MyContainer"
image = "./Dockerfile"
instances = 5

[[durable_objects.bindings]]
class_name = "MyContainer"
name = "MY_CONTAINER"

[[migrations]]
new_sqlite_classes = [ "MyContainer" ]
tag = "v1"

Worker Code

Once your Worker and Containers are configured, you can access the Container instances from your Worker code:

import { Container, getContainer } from "@cloudflare/containers";

export class MyContainer extends Container {
  defaultPort = 4000; // Port the container is listening on
  sleepAfter = "10m"; // Stop the instance if requests not sent for 10 minutes
}

async fetch(request, env) {
  const { "session-id": sessionId } = await request.json();
  // Get the container instance for the given session ID
  const containerInstance = getContainer(env.MY_CONTAINER, sessionId)
  // Pass the request to the container instance on its default port
  return containerInstance.fetch(request);
}

Local development

To develop your Worker locally, start a local dev server by running

vite dev

in your terminal.

Resources

Learn more about Cloudflare Containers ↗︎ or the Cloudflare Vite plugin ↗︎ in our developer docs.

Deploy to Cloudflare buttons now support Worker environment variables, secrets, and Secrets Store secrets

Any template which uses Worker environment variables, secrets, or Secrets Store secrets can now be deployed using a Deploy to Cloudflare button.

Define environment variables and secrets store bindings in your Wrangler configuration file as normal:

{
  "name": "my-worker",
  "main": "./src/index.ts",
	// Set this to today's date
	"compatibility_date": "2026-10-11",
  "vars": {
    "API_HOST": "https://example.com",
  },
	"secrets_store_secrets": [
		{
			"binding": "API_KEY",
			"store_id": "demo",
			"secret_name": "api-key"
		}
	]
}
name = "my-worker"
main = "./src/index.ts"
# Set this to today's date
compatibility_date = "2026-10-11"

[vars]
API_HOST = "https://example.com"

[[secrets_store_secrets]]
binding = "API_KEY"
store_id = "demo"
secret_name = "api-key"

Add secrets to a .dev.vars.example or .env.example file:

.dev.vars.exampleini
COOKIE_SIGNING_KEY=my-secret # comment

And optionally, you can add a description for these bindings in your template's package.json to help users understand how to configure each value:

package.jsonjson
{
	"name": "my-worker",
	"private": true,
	"cloudflare": {
		"bindings": {
			"API_KEY": {
				"description": "Select your company's API key for connecting to the example service."
			},
			"COOKIE_SIGNING_KEY": {
				"description": "Generate a random string using `openssl rand -hex 32`."
			}
		}
	}
}

These secrets and environment variables will be presented to users in the dashboard as they deploy this template, allowing them to configure each value. Additional information about creating templates and Deploy to Cloudflare buttons can be found in our documentation.

Introducing pricing for the Browser Rendering API — $0.09 per browser hour

We’ve launched pricing for Browser Rendering, including a free tier and a pay-as-you-go model that scales with your needs. Starting August 20, 2025, Cloudflare will begin billing for Browser Rendering.

There are two ways to use Browser Rendering. Depending on the method you use, here’s how billing will work:

  • REST API: Charged for Duration only ($/browser hour)
  • Browser Sessions: Charged for both Duration and Concurrency ($/browser hour and # of concurrent browsers)

Included usage and pricing by plan

Plan Included duration Included concurrency Price (beyond included)
Workers Free 10 minutes per day 3 concurrent browsers N/A
Workers Paid 10 hours per month 10 concurrent browsers (averaged monthly) 1. REST API: $0.09 per additional browser hour
2. Workers Bindings: $0.09 per additional browser hour
$2.00 per additional concurrent browser

What you need to know:

  • Workers Free Plan: 10 minutes of browser usage per day with 3 concurrent browsers at no charge.
  • Workers Paid Plan: 10 hours of browser usage per month with 10 concurrent browsers (averaged monthly) at no charge. Additional usage is charged as shown above.

You can monitor usage via the Cloudflare dashboard ↗︎. Go to Compute > Browser Run.

Browser Rendering dashboard

If you've been using Browser Rendering and do not wish to incur charges, ensure your usage stays within your plan's included usage. To estimate costs, take a look at these example pricing scenarios.

Browser Rendering now supports local development

You can now run your Browser Rendering locally using npx wrangler dev, which spins up a browser directly on your machine before deploying to Cloudflare's global network. By running tests locally, you can quickly develop, debug, and test changes without needing to deploy or worry about usage costs.

Get started with this example guide that shows how to use Cloudflare's fork of Puppeteer (you can also use Playwright) to take screenshots of webpages and store the results in Workers KV.

Test out code changes before shipping with per-branch preview deployments for Cloudflare Workers

Now, when you connect your Cloudflare Worker to a git repository on GitHub or GitLab, each branch of your repository has its own stable preview URL, that you can use to preview code changes before merging the pull request and deploying to production.

This works the same way that Cloudflare Pages does — every time you create a pull request, you'll automatically get a shareable preview link where you can see your changes running, without affecting production. The link stays the same, even as you add commits to the same branch. These preview URLs are named after your branch and are posted as a comment to each pull request. The URL stays the same with every commit and always points to the latest version of that branch.

PR comment preview

Preview URL types

Each comment includes two preview URLs as shown above:

  • Commit Preview URL: Unique to the specific version/commit (e.g., <version-prefix>-<worker-name>.<subdomain>.workers.dev)
  • Branch Preview URL: A stable alias based on the branch name (e.g., <branch-name>-<worker-name>.<subdomain>.workers.dev)

How it works

When you create a pull request:

  • A preview alias is automatically created based on the Git branch name (e.g., <branch-name> becomes <branch-name>-<worker-name>.<subdomain>.workers.dev)
  • No configuration is needed, the alias is generated for you
  • The link stays the same even as you add commits to the same branch
  • Preview URLs are posted directly to your pull request as comments (just like they are in Cloudflare Pages)

Custom alias name

You can also assign a custom preview alias using the Wrangler CLI, by passing the --preview-alias flag when uploading a version of your Worker:

wrangler versions upload --preview-alias staging

Limitations while in beta

  • Only available on the workers.dev subdomain (custom domains not yet supported)
  • Requires Wrangler v4.21.0+
  • Preview URLs are not generated for Workers that use Durable Objects
  • Not yet supported for Workers for Platforms

Audio mode for Media Transformations

We now support audio mode! Use this feature to extract audio from a source video, outputting an M4A file to use in downstream workflows like AI inference, content moderation, or transcription.

For example,

Example URLtext
https://example.com/cdn-cgi/media/<OPTIONS>/<SOURCE-VIDEO>
https://example.com/cdn-cgi/media/mode=audio,time=3s,duration=60s/<input video with diction>

For more information, learn about Transforming Videos.

Subaddressing support in Email Routing

Subaddressing, as defined in RFC 5233 ↗︎, also known as plus addressing, is now supported in Email Routing. This enables using the "+" separator to augment your custom addresses with arbitrary detail information.

Now you can send an email to user+detail@example.com and it will be captured by the user@example.com custom address. The +detail part is ignored by Email Routing, but it can be captured next in the processing chain in the logs, an Email Worker or an Agent application ↗︎.

Customers can use this feature to dynamically add context to their emails, such as tracking the source of an email or categorizing emails without needing to create multiple custom addresses.

Subaddressing

Check our Developer Docs to learn how to enable subaddressing in Email Routing.

Faster, more reliable UDP traffic for Cloudflare Tunnel

Your real-time applications running over Cloudflare Tunnel are now faster and more reliable. We've completely re-architected the way cloudflared proxies UDP traffic in order to isolate it from other traffic, ensuring latency-sensitive applications like private DNS are no longer slowed down by heavy TCP traffic (like file transfers) on the same Tunnel.

This is a foundational improvement to Cloudflare Tunnel, delivered automatically to all customers. There are no settings to configure — your UDP traffic is already flowing faster and more reliably.

What’s new:

  • Faster UDP performance: We've significantly reduced the latency for establishing new UDP sessions, making applications like private DNS much more responsive.
  • Greater reliability for mixed traffic: UDP packets are no longer affected by heavy TCP traffic, preventing timeouts and connection drops for your real-time services.

Learn more about running TCP or UDP applications and private networks through Cloudflare Tunnel.

Terraform v5.7.0 now available

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of the new Terraform v5 Provider. We are aware of the high number of issues ↗︎ reported by the Cloudflare community related to the v5 release, with 13.5% of resources impacted. We have committed to releasing improvements on a 2 week cadeance to ensure it's stability and relability, including the v5.7 release.

Thank you for continuing to raise issues and please keep an eye on this changelog for more information about upcoming releases.

Changes

  • Addressed permanent diff bug on Cloudflare Tunnel config
  • State is now saved correctly for Zero Trust Access applications
  • Exact match is now working as expected within data.cloudflare_zero_trust_access_applications
  • cloudflare_zero_trust_access_policy now supports OIDC claims & diff issues resolved
  • Self hosted applications with private IPs no longer require a public domain for cloudflare_zero_trust_access_application.
  • New resource:
    • cloudflare_zero_trust_tunnel_warp_connector
  • Other bug fixes

For a more detailed look at all of the changes, see the changelog ↗︎ in GitHub.

Issues Closed

If you have an unaddressed issue with the provider, we encourage you to check the open issues ↗︎ and open a new one if one does not already exist for what you are experiencing.

Upgrading

We suggest holding on migration to v5 while we work on stabilization of the v5 provider. This will ensure Cloudflare can work ahead and avoid any blocking issues.

If you'd like more information on migrating from v4 to v5, please make use of the migration guide ↗︎. We have provided automated migration scripts using Grit which simplify the transition, although these do not support implementations which use Terraform modules, so customers making use of modules need to migrate manually. Please make use of terraform plan to test your changes before applying, and let us know if you encounter any additional issues by reporting to our GitHub repository ↗︎.

For more info

Faster indexing and new Jobs view in AutoRAG

You can now expect 3-5× faster indexing in AutoRAG, and with it, a brand new Jobs view to help you monitor indexing progress.

With each AutoRAG, indexing jobs are automatically triggered to sync your data source (i.e. R2 bucket) with your Vectorize index, ensuring new or updated files are reflected in your query results. You can also trigger jobs manually via the Sync API or by clicking “Sync index” in the dashboard.

With the new jobs observability, you can now:

  • View the status, job ID, source, start time, duration and last sync time for each indexing job
  • Inspect real-time logs of job events (e.g. Starting indexing data source...)
  • See a history of past indexing jobs under the Jobs tab of your AutoRAG

This makes it easier to understand what’s happening behind the scenes.

Coming soon: We’re adding APIs to programmatically check indexing status, making it even easier to integrate AutoRAG into your workflows.

Try it out today on the Cloudflare dashboard ↗︎.

Workers now supports JavaScript debug terminals in VSCode, Cursor and Windsurf IDEs

Workers now support breakpoint debugging using VSCode's built-in JavaScript Debug Terminals ↗︎. All you have to do is open a JS debug terminal (Cmd + Shift + P and then type javascript debug) and run wrangler dev (or vite dev) from within the debug terminal. VSCode will automatically connect to your running Worker (even if you're running multiple Workers at once!) and start a debugging session.

In 2023 we announced breakpoint debugging support ↗︎ for Workers, which meant that you could easily debug your Worker code in Wrangler's built-in devtools (accessible via the [d] hotkey) as well as multiple other devtools clients, including VSCode ↗︎. For most developers, breakpoint debugging via VSCode is the most natural flow, but until now it's required manually configuring a launch.json file ↗︎, running wrangler dev, and connecting via VSCode's built-in debugger. Now it's much more seamless!

Hyperdrive now supports configuring the amount of database connections

You can now specify the number of connections your Hyperdrive configuration uses to connect to your origin database.

All configurations have a minimum of 5 connections. The maximum connection count for a Hyperdrive configuration depends on the Hyperdrive limits of your Workers plan.

This feature allows you to right-size your connection pool based on your database capacity and application requirements. You can configure connection counts through the Cloudflare dashboard or API.

Refer to the Hyperdrive configuration documentation for more information.

Enhanced support for static assets with the Cloudflare Vite plugin

You can now use any of Vite's static asset handling ↗︎ features in your Worker as well as in your frontend. These include importing assets as URLs, importing as strings and importing from the public directory as well as inlining assets.

Additionally, assets imported as URLs in your Worker are now automatically moved to the client build output.

Here is an example that fetches an imported asset using the assets binding and modifies the response.

// Import the asset URL
// This returns the resolved path in development and production
import myImage from "./my-image.png";

export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		// Fetch the asset using the binding
		const response = await env.ASSETS.fetch(new URL(myImage, request.url));
		// Create a new `Response` object that can be modified
		const modifiedResponse = new Response(response.body, response);
		// Add an additional header
		modifiedResponse.headers.append("my-header", "imported-asset");

		// Return the modified response
		return modifiedResponse;
	},
};

Refer to Static Assets in the Cloudflare Vite plugin docs for more info.

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 you are using a Worker with an Email trigger to receive email messages and forward them upstream, you will need to handle the case where the forward action may fail due to missing authentication on the incoming email.

SPAM has been a long-standing issue with email. By enforcing mail authentication, we will increase the efficiency of identifying abusive senders and blocking bad emails. If you're an email server delivering emails to large mailbox providers, it's likely you already use these protocols; otherwise, please ensure you have them properly configured.

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 }
+ });

Then, all you have to do is specify which bindings you want connected to the deployed resource on your Cloudflare account via the experimental_remote flag in your binding definition:

{
	"r2_buckets": [
		{
			"bucket_name": "testing-bucket",
			"binding": "MY_BUCKET",
			"experimental_remote": true,
		},
	],
}
[[r2_buckets]]
bucket_name = "testing-bucket"
binding = "MY_BUCKET"
experimental_remote = true

You can then run next dev to start a local development session (or start a preview with opennextjs-cloudflare preview), and all requests to env.MY_BUCKET will be proxied to the remote testing-bucket — rather than the default local binding simulations.

Remote bindings & ISR

Remote bindings are also used during the build process, which comes with significant benefits for pages using Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) ↗︎. During the build step for an ISR page, your server executes the page's code just as it would for normal user requests. If a page needs data to display (like fetching user info from KV), those requests are actually made. The server then uses this fetched data to render the final HTML.

Data fetching is a critical part of this process, as the finished HTML is only as good as the data it was built with. If the build process can't fetch real data, you end up with a pre-rendered page that's empty or incomplete.

With remote bindings support in OpenNext, your pre-rendered pages are built with real data from the start. The build process uses any configured remote bindings, and any data fetching occurs against the deployed resources on your Cloudflare account.

Want to learn more? Get started with remote bindings and OpenNext ↗︎.

Have feedback? Join the discussion in our beta announcement ↗︎ to share feedback or report any issues.

Run and connect Workers in separate dev commands with the Cloudflare Vite plugin

Workers can now talk to each other across separate dev commands using service bindings and tail consumers, whether started with vite dev or wrangler dev.

Simply start each Worker in its own terminal:

# Terminal 1
vite dev

# Terminal 2
wrangler dev

This is useful when different teams maintain different Workers, or when each Worker has its own build setup or tooling.

Check out the Developing with multiple Workers guide to learn more about the different approaches and when to use each one.

Run AI-generated code on-demand with Code Sandboxes (new)

AI is supercharging app development for everyone, but we need a safe way to run untrusted, LLM-written code. We’re introducing Sandboxes ↗︎, which let your Worker run actual processes in a secure, container-based environment.

import { getSandbox } from "@cloudflare/sandbox";
export { Sandbox } from "@cloudflare/sandbox";

export default {
	async fetch(request: Request, env: Env) {
		const sandbox = getSandbox(env.Sandbox, "my-sandbox");
		return sandbox.exec("ls", ["-la"]);
	},
};

Methods

  • exec(command: string, args: string[], options?: { stream?: boolean }):Execute a command in the sandbox.
  • gitCheckout(repoUrl: string, options: { branch?: string; targetDir?: string; stream?: boolean }): Checkout a git repository in the sandbox.
  • mkdir(path: string, options: { recursive?: boolean; stream?: boolean }): Create a directory in the sandbox.
  • writeFile(path: string, content: string, options: { encoding?: string; stream?: boolean }): Write content to a file in the sandbox.
  • readFile(path: string, options: { encoding?: string; stream?: boolean }): Read content from a file in the sandbox.
  • deleteFile(path: string, options?: { stream?: boolean }): Delete a file from the sandbox.
  • renameFile(oldPath: string, newPath: string, options?: { stream?: boolean }): Rename a file in the sandbox.
  • moveFile(sourcePath: string, destinationPath: string, options?: { stream?: boolean }): Move a file from one location to another in the sandbox.
  • ping(): Ping the sandbox.

Sandboxes are still experimental. We're using them to explore how isolated, container-like workloads might scale on Cloudflare — and to help define the developer experience around them.

You can try it today from your Worker, with just a few lines of code. Let us know what you build.

@cloudflare/actors library - SDK for Durable Objects in beta

The new @cloudflare/actors ↗︎ library is now in beta!

The @cloudflare/actors library is a new SDK for Durable Objects and provides a powerful set of abstractions for building real-time, interactive, and multiplayer applications on top of Durable Objects. With beta usage and feedback, @cloudflare/actors will become the recommended way to build on Durable Objects and draws upon Cloudflare's experience building products/features on Durable Objects.

The name "actors" originates from the actor programming model, which closely ties to how Durable Objects are modelled.

The @cloudflare/actors library includes:

  • Storage helpers for querying embeddeded, per-object SQLite storage
  • Storage helpers for managing SQL schema migrations
  • Alarm helpers for scheduling multiple alarms provided a date, delay in seconds, or cron expression
  • Actor class for using Durable Objects with a defined pattern
  • Durable Objects Workers API ↗︎ is always available for your application as needed

Storage and alarm helper methods can be combined with any Javascript class ↗︎ that defines your Durable Object, i.e, ones that extend DurableObject including the Actor class.

import { Storage } from "@cloudflare/actors/storage";

export class ChatRoom extends DurableObject<Env> {
    storage: Storage;

    constructor(ctx: DurableObjectState, env: Env) {
        super(ctx, env)
        this.storage = new Storage(ctx.storage);
        this.storage.migrations = [{
            idMonotonicInc: 1,
            description: "Create users table",
            sql: "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY)"
        }]
    }
    async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
        // Run migrations before executing SQL query
        await this.storage.runMigrations();

        // Query with SQL template
        let userId = new URL(request.url).searchParams.get("userId");
        const query = this.storage.sql`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${userId};`
        return new Response(`${JSON.stringify(query)}`);
    }
}

@cloudflare/actors library introduces the Actor class pattern. Actor lets you access Durable Objects without writing the Worker that communicates with your Durable Object (the Worker is created for you). By default, requests are routed to a Durable Object named "default".

export class MyActor extends Actor<Env> {
    async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
        return new Response('Hello, World!')
    }
}

export default handler(MyActor);

You can route to different Durable Objects by name within your Actor class using nameFromRequest ↗︎.

export class MyActor extends Actor<Env> {
    static nameFromRequest(request: Request): string {
        let url = new URL(request.url);
        return url.searchParams.get("userId") ?? "foo";
    }

    async fetch(request: Request): Promise<Response> {
        return new Response(`Actor identifier (Durable Object name): ${this.identifier}`);
    }
}

export default handler(MyActor);

For more examples, check out the library README ↗︎. @cloudflare/actors library is a place for more helpers and built-in patterns, like retry handling and Websocket-based applications, to reduce development overhead for common Durable Objects functionality. Please share feedback and what more you would like to see on our Discord channel ↗︎.

Increased blob size limits in Workers Analytics Engine

We’ve increased the total allowed size of blob fields on data points written to Workers Analytics Engine from 5 KB to 16 KB.

This change gives you more flexibility when logging rich observability data — such as base64-encoded payloads, AI inference traces, or custom metadata — without hitting request size limits.

You can find full details on limits for queries, filters, payloads, and more here in the Workers Analytics Engine limits documentation.

export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		env.analyticsDataset.writeDataPoint({
			// The sum of all of the blob's sizes can now be 16 KB
			blobs: [
				// The URL of the request to the Worker
				request.url,
				// Some metadata about your application you'd like to store
				JSON.stringify(metadata),
				// The version of your Worker this datapoint was collected from
				env.versionMetadata.tag,
			],
			indexes: ["sample-index"],
		});
	},
};
worker.tsts
export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		env.analyticsDataset.writeDataPoint({
			// The sum of all of the blob's sizes can now be 16 KB
			blobs: [
				// The URL of the request to the Worker
				request.url,
				// Some metadata about your application you'd like to store
				JSON.stringify(metadata),
				// The version of your Worker this datapoint was collected from
				env.versionMetadata.tag,
			],
			indexes: ["sample-index"],
		});
	}
};

View custom metadata in responses and guide AI-search with context in AutoRAG

In AutoRAG, you can now view your object's custom metadata in the response from /search and /ai-search, and optionally add a context field in the custom metadata of an object to provide additional guidance for AI-generated answers.

You can add custom metadata to an object when uploading it to your R2 bucket.

Object's custom metadata in search responses

When you run a search, AutoRAG now returns any custom metadata associated with the object. This metadata appears in the response inside attributes then file , and can be used for downstream processing.

For example, the attributes section of your search response may look like:

{
	"attributes": {
		"timestamp": 1750001460000,
		"folder": "docs/",
		"filename": "launch-checklist.md",
		"file": {
			"url": "https://wiki.company.com/docs/launch-checklist",
			"context": "A checklist for internal launch readiness, including legal, engineering, and marketing steps."
		}
	}
}

Add a context field to guide LLM answers

When you include a custom metadata field named context, AutoRAG attaches that value to each chunk of the file. When you run an /ai-search query, this context is passed to the LLM and can be used as additional input when generating an answer.

We recommend using the context field to describe supplemental information you want the LLM to consider, such as a summary of the document or a source URL. If you have several different metadata attributes, you can join them together however you choose within the context string.

For example:

{
	"context": "summary: 'Checklist for internal product launch readiness, including legal, engineering, and marketing steps.'; url: 'https://wiki.company.com/docs/launch-checklist'"
}

This gives you more control over how your content is interpreted, without requiring you to modify the original contents of the file.

Learn more in AutoRAG's metadata filtering documentation.

Filter your AutoRAG search by file name

In AutoRAG, you can now filter by an object's file name using the filename attribute, giving you more control over which files are searched for a given query.

This is useful when your application has already determined which files should be searched. For example, you might query a PostgreSQL database to get a list of files a user has access to based on their permissions, and then use that list to limit what AutoRAG retrieves.

For example, your search query may look like:

const response = await env.AI.autorag("my-autorag").search({
	query: "what is the project deadline?",
	filters: {
		type: "eq",
		key: "filename",
		value: "project-alpha-roadmap.md",
	},
});

This allows you to connect your application logic with AutoRAG's retrieval process, making it easy to control what gets searched without needing to reindex or modify your data.

Learn more in AutoRAG's metadata filtering documentation.