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Visit website →Cloudflare Introduces Beta Multi-Agent Security Harness for Managed Defense
The beta harness uses Clef for triage and specialist agents for investigation, keeping human analysts in control of final decisions.
DNS Root Key Rollover Scheduled for October 11, 2026
Validating resolvers must trust the new KSK-2024 key before the switch to avoid breaking DNSSEC authentication.
Cloudflare interns ship production code and contribute to Birthday Week launches
Cloudflare has hosted 750 internships across 48 teams, with interns contributing to EmDash 1.0, post-quantum tools, and cache optimization.
Cloudflare Ships 46 Announcements During Birthday Week 2026
The 46 announcements include the agentic CLI cf, the open-source CMS EmDash, and the general availability of the data platform Basin.
Cloudflare releases Streamline, an open-source playground for custom video pipelines
Streamline combines Cloudflare Workers, Containers, and Stream to enable real-time video manipulation like overlays and burned-in subtitles.
Cloudflare ranks fastest in 74% of top networks, up from 60%
Cloudflare introduced a new measurement methodology using Challenge Pages to expand data collection and improve ranking accuracy.
Cloudflare Opens Second Cohort for Non-Profit AI Automation Program
The program offers up to $250,000 in credits and volunteer engineering support to help civil society organizations build secure AI tools.
Cloudflare Adds Accountless Email Authentication to Quick Tunnels
Starting with cloudflared 2026.9.3, developers can restrict access to local services via Quick Tunnels using a single flag without creating a Cloudflare account.
Cloudflare launches Account Abuse Protection dashboard for stateful fraud investigation
The new dashboard is available first to Early Access customers, enabling fraud teams to investigate account abuse using stateful behavioral patterns rather than point-in-time identity checks.
Cloudflare launches closed beta of OHTTP Gateway for privacy-preserving request handling
Cloudflare has launched a closed beta for its new OHTTP Gateway, a paid add-on allowing developers to receive Oblivious HTTP traffic without exposing user IP addresses to their servers.
Cloudflare expands Logpush, RBAC, and account management to all plans
Logpush, Transformers, and Custom Dashboards are now available to all plans, alongside significantly increased limits for Workers, Containers, and other services.
Cloudflare introduces Traces in open beta to follow requests across entire platform
The new tool extends automatic tracing beyond Workers to security rules, caching, and routing, with new pricing effective December 1, 2026.
Cloudflare launches eight major updates to unified Observability platform
New unified pricing for logs and traces takes effect December 1, 2026, with Logpush now available on all self-serve plans.
Cloudflare Releases Open-Source Decision Models Clef and Clef-flash, Debuts RL Fine-Tuning Platform
Clef models are open-sourced under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and hosted on Workers AI, claiming to outperform Jev on the Decision Index.
Cloudflare Adds EuroLLM and Apertus to Workers AI, Launches Cyber Defense Workshops
Cloudflare adds EuroLLM and Apertus to Workers AI and launches cyber defense workshops starting in Singapore this October.
Cloudflare Workers adds post-quantum ML-KEM and ML-DSA support to Web Crypto
Support for ML-KEM-768 and ML-DSA-44 is available behind the webcrypto_modern_algorithms compatibility flag.
Cloudflare AI Search reaches general availability with multimodal embeddings and OCR
Billing for AI Search begins November 1, 2026, with a free tier offering 5M ingestion tokens and 1,000 semantic queries per month.
Cloudflare launches competition to build next Git platform on Artifacts
Submissions for the agentic Git platform competition close on October 14, 2026, with a $25,000 credit prize for the winner.
Cloudflare launches K2, a serverless event streaming primitive on R2
K2 is available in public beta for Workers Paid accounts, offering durable event streaming with 11 nines of durability and long-term retention.
Cloudflare Opens Waitlist for Fully Managed Cloudflare OS Deployments
The managed option handles deployment and updates, while users configure access policies and AI Gateway connections.