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Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, two open-source decision models integrated into the Workers AI platform. Additionally, the company launched a reinforcement learning (RL) platform for developers to fine-tune these models using proprietary datasets.
One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice
Cloudflare is expanding its Workers AI platform to support a broader range of open-source models for local execution. The company is also deploying model-agnostic security tools designed to provide governance and protection for AI deployments across sovereign borders.
Introducing Workers KV Instant — powered by Quicksilver
Cloudflare has launched Workers KV Instant, a new storage tier achieving sub-2ms p99 read latencies. The service guarantees 250ms global replication across the entire Cloudflare edge network.
Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you
Cloudflare OS gives everyone in your organization an agent workspace that knows how your company works and connects to its data and systems. We’re opening the waitlist for fully managed deployments that you’ll be able to...
Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations
Cloudflare has reached a cumulative total of $100 million in donated cybersecurity services through its Impact programs. This milestone represents the aggregate value of protection services provided to non-profit, governmental, and educational entities.
Simplifying domains for people and agents
Cloudflare Registrar’s new search delivers fast, transparent results across 420+ extensions using Workers, Durable Objects, and WebSockets. Its expanded API and cf CLI also let agents search, register, and transfer domai...
Detect and send production issues straight to your agent
Cloudflare Workers now includes built-in error monitoring that aggregates production failures. This feature enables the direct export of stack traces, logs, and application context to AI coding agents for automated investigation and pull request generation.
Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router
Cloudflare has introduced an Auto Router feature for AI Gateway that utilizes an edge-deployed classifier to evaluate request complexity. This system dynamically routes requests to the most cost-effective model based on a balance of output quality and token pricing.
Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks
Cloudflare has launched an adaptive security framework that integrates risk discovery, agent governance, and runtime protection. This system utilizes a continuous learning loop to automate AI-powered threat responses.
Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration
Cloudflare has introduced CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool designed to automate the discovery of cryptographic implementations within their codebase. This tool maps complex dependencies to facilitate a systematic migration to post-quantum cryptographic standards by 2029.
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Cloudflare is transitioning to become a formal Certificate Authority (CA) to issue its own SSL/TLS certificates. The new infrastructure integrates ACME protocol automation with Merkle Tree Certificates to support post-quantum cryptographic standards.
Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching a new certificate authority capable of issuing Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC). This implementation addresses the data size overhead associated with post-quantum cryptographic signatures in TLS handshakes.
Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0
Vinext 1.0 graduates from an AI experiment to a production-ready framework, letting developers run Next.js apps on Vite. This release brings advanced cache warming, broader compatibility, and an automated testing pipelin...
Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API
Cloudflare has launched 'cf', a new command-line interface that provides full coverage of the Cloudflare API with support for programmatic TypeScript configurations. Additionally, the company has open-sourced 'Forge', the internal SDK generator used to build these tools.
How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON
Cloudflare is open-sourcing the BEACON dataset, making billions of anonymized Real User Monitoring (RUM) performance records publicly available on Google BigQuery. Explore real-world Core Web Vitals, soft navigation metr...
Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect
Cloudflare is launching The Cold Start, a startup competition giving five early-stage companies five minutes on stage at Cloudflare Connect. Grand Prize winner receives $500,000 in credits, a San Francisco billboard, and...
The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update
We’ve updated Kitesurf, our Workers-based browser for AI agents, with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering. With over 730,000 Web Platform subtests passing, agents can now navigate compl...
Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more
Cloudflare has released Forge, an open-source CI pipeline tool designed to automate the generation of SDKs, CLIs, and documentation from API definitions. This tool decentralizes the generation process by moving it into individual team repositories to ensure continuous synchronization.
Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all hu
Since joining Cloudflare, VoidZero has delivered more than 80 releases that drastically speed up JavaScript compilation, linting, and testing. From a 10x faster React compiler to Vite+ 1.0, here’s how we are building fas...
Cloudflare Launches AI Crawler Optimization and Content Monetization Framework
Cloudflare introduced new tools to reduce server load by enabling crawlers to fetch only updated content and a framework for site owners to monetize their content when accessed by AI agents. These features address the rising strain of automated traffic, which surpassed human traffic in May 2026.
Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter
The Internet is changing more today than at any point since Cloudflare launched back on September 27, 2010. As automated traffic surpasses human activity, we reflect on the rise of AI agents, new creators, and how we can...
Cloudflare Launches Worker Previews for Isolated Branch-Based Environments
Cloudflare introduced Worker Previews, allowing developers to deploy isolated, production-like environments for every Git branch. This feature provides unique URLs, independent Durable Object namespaces, and separate configuration settings for each branch to enable safer pre-production testing.
Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin
Cloudflare introduced Turnstile Spin, a tool designed to automate the integration of server-side validation for Turnstile. It enables AI coding agents to automatically configure the necessary backend verification logic for website security.
How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
External security researchers at Accomplish identified a vulnerability in Cloudflare Containers that could expose residual disk data from previous workloads. We explain how the issue worked, how we investigated it, and t...
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is ...
Introducing Worker Previews: isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes
Worker Previews gives every branch its own URL, configuration, state, and observability, so you and your agents can test changes in parallel without affecting production....
Python Workers are now generally available
Cloudflare has officially transitioned Python Workers from beta to general availability. Developers can now execute Python code natively within the Workers runtime to interface directly with D1, R2, and Workers AI.
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Cloudflare implemented a statistical optimization technique within their Pingora-based services to reduce memory consumption. This architectural change successfully reclaimed 100TB of RAM across their global network infrastructure.
When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
Cloudflare has integrated machine learning models into its Client-Side Security product to detect evasive JavaScript-based attacks. These models are designed to identify malicious scripts that bypass traditional signature-based scanners by siphoning data or hijacking user interactions.
Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers
You can now scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles, so teammates, CI tokens, and agents get only the access they need to debug, deploy, or monitor safely....
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft....
Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB
Cloudflare CASB policies introduce a native automation engine built directly on the Cloudflare developer platform to remediate SaaS risks automatically. Security teams can now design event-driven logic to revoke risky fi...
1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNSSEC signature validation using the NIST-standardized ML-DSA-44 post-quantum algorithm. This implementation handles 2,420-byte signature payloads to ensure compatibility with quantum-resistant cryptographic standards.
How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility
Cloudflare Workers now enables Node.js compatibility by default and increases the maximum application size limit to 64 mebibytes. The platform has introduced a URL-based module registry featuring import.meta support, lazy compilation, and shared code caches.
Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Cloudflare has introduced Automatic Key Exchange to proactively probe TLS 1.3-capable origins for supported key agreement algorithms. The system now automatically prioritizes post-quantum cryptographic algorithms during the TLS handshake process.
Cloudflare Unveils Workers AI with Global GPU Inference and Vectorize Database
Cloudflare announced general availability of Workers AI, enabling serverless AI model inference across 300+ edge datacenters alongside Vectorize vector database.
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
Cloudflare has integrated OpenAI Daybreak models into its Managed Defense service to automate vulnerability prioritization and remediation. The system utilizes production WAF traffic data to generate actionable code patches and edge-based security mitigations.
How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Cloudflare has prototyped the integration of Zstandard (zstd) compression within its Pingora-based cache architecture. This implementation aims to increase effective cache storage capacity on existing hardware by compressing cached objects.
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack
Cloudflare has launched the Adaptive Intelligence engine to autonomously generate and deploy disposable bot detection rules based on live traffic meta-signals. This system shifts bot mitigation from static, deterministic rule-sets to a dynamic, self-learning model.
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
Cloudflare has introduced a dedicated dashboard interface for bot operators to manage their submissions. The update includes new functionality for tracking submission status, editing existing entries, and defining bot behavior models.
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet....
Cloudflare Eliminates D1 SQL Database Read/Write Row Limits on Free Tier
Cloudflare removed legacy daily query limitations on D1 serverless SQL database, introducing 5GB storage and 5 million daily rows read for zero cost.
The Cloudflare Blog — brought to you by EmDash
We migrated the Cloudflare Blog to EmDash to prove our stack at massive scale. Here is how we stress-tested performance, safely routed production traffic, and redesigned the frontend experience....
Complete Cloudflare Change Log Index
| Date | Change Title | Type | Impact | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Oct 1, 2026 | One year later: Sovereign AI and the fight for choice | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Introducing Workers KV Instant — powered by Quicksilver | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Cloudflare OS: your company’s agent workspace, managed for you | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations | security | 7/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Simplifying domains for people and agents | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Detect and send production issues straight to your agent | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Cut your AI spend with AI Gateway's Auto Router | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Adaptive application security for the AI era: how Cloudflare connects code, traffic, and intelligence to stop attacks | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Using AI to chart a course for our post-quantum migration | product_launch | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Building a post-quantum certificate authority with Merkle Tree Certificates | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Next.js applications, powered by Vite: introducing Vinext 1.0 | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Introducing cf: the agentic CLI for the entire Cloudflare API | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Introducing The Cold Start: pitch your startup live at Cloudflare Connect | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | The road to the agentic browser: A Kitesurf update | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Introducing Forge: the open source pipeline for generating SDKs, CLIs, docs, and more | product_launch | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Four months of VoidZero at Cloudflare: making the open-source JavaScript toolchain faster for all hu | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 27, 2026 | Cloudflare Launches AI Crawler Optimization and Content Monetization Framework | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 27, 2026 | Cloudflare’s 2026 Annual Founders’ Letter | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 27, 2026 | Cloudflare Launches Worker Previews for Isolated Branch-Based Environments | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin | feature | 7/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 24, 2026 | How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 22, 2026 | We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Introducing Worker Previews: isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Python Workers are now generally available | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 16, 2026 | When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it | security | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 9, 2026 | How we rebuilt Cloudflare Workers’ module registry for Node.js compatibility | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 8, 2026 | Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting) | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Cloudflare Unveils Workers AI with Global GPU Inference and Vectorize Database | product_launch | 10/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Sep 1, 2026 | How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack | product_launch | 9/10 | View ➔ |
| Aug 28, 2026 | BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents | feature | 7/10 | View ➔ |
| Aug 27, 2026 | How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Cloudflare Eliminates D1 SQL Database Read/Write Row Limits on Free Tier | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |
| Aug 24, 2026 | The Cloudflare Blog — brought to you by EmDash | feature | 8/10 | View ➔ |