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Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare Images - New in Images: text rasterization and updates to the binding

We've added more ways to manage and manipulate images with the Images binding. Here's what's new: Render text into an image. Output a string of text into its own image or draw it over another image. Use the .text() method to rasterize text with the Images binding. Style content using the font, size, and color options. The draw array in cf.image now accepts a text key. Manage hosted images without an API token. Metadata filtering: Pass filter.metadata to .list() to return images by custom metadat

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Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare Tunnel, Cloudflare One, Cloudflare WAN, Cloudflare Mesh - Create multiple Cloudflare Tunnel and Cloudflare Mesh routes at once

You can now create multiple Cloudflare Tunnel and Cloudflare Mesh routes from the Routes page in a single action, instead of submitting one route at a time. When creating a route, you can now: Add multiple destinations at once — Enter a comma-separated list of CIDR ranges or hostnames to create several routes of the same type and connector together. Queue up multiple routes — Select Add another to stage additional routes, including different types or connectors, before creating them all in one a

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Cloudflare Changelog

Sandbox SDK - Run Cursor Cloud Agents on Cloudflare via self-hosted machines

Cursor self-hosted machines ↗ let you run Cursor Cloud Agents on Cloudflare. Each assigned session runs in its own isolated environment backed by Cloudflare Containers. Cursor hosts the agent loop, inference, and planning. Cloudflare runs commands, file edits, repository operations, and other tools inside infrastructure that you control. The open-source Cursor Cloudflare Workers template ↗ deploys the Worker, Durable Object namespace, container application, R2 bucket binding, and cron trigger us

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Elastic Blog

Elastic Stack 9.4.6 released

Version 9.4.6 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.6 over the previous versions 9.4.5 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes. The 9.4.6 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security announcement for more details

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Elastic Blog

Elastic Stack 8.19.21 released

Version 8.19.21 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.21 over the previous versions 8.19.21 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes. The 8.19.21 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security announcement for more details

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Vercel Blog

Muse Spark 1.3 now available on AI Gateway

is now available on AI Gateway, in both the standard and contributor pricing tiers.Muse Spark 1.3 from Meta This model improves on prior Muse Spark models at agent work and coding, with a 1M token context window and text, image, and PDF input. On coding it takes fewer turns and writes less filler than the previous release. To use Muse Spark 1.3, set to :modelmeta/muse-spark-1.3 is a pricing tier on the same model rather than a separate one, with the same weights, capabilities, and context wind

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Cloudflare Changelog

Workers - Python Workers now support WSGI web frameworks like Django and Flask

Python web frameworks following the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) ↗ or Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) ↗ specification can now be used in Python Workers. Using web frameworks with Python Workers Based on the web framework you are using, you can use either wsgi or asgi from the workers module. WSGI frameworks For WSGI frameworks like Django or Flask: from workers import wsgi from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application app = get_wsgi_application() Default = wsgi.entr

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DEV Community

EKS vs ECS vs Fargate: Choosing AWS Container Compute

"Should we use EKS?" is one of the most over-answered-with-yes questions in AWS. Kubernetes is These are different choices people conflate: Orchestrator: ECS or EKS (Kubernetes)? Compute mode: EC2 (you manage nodes) or Fargate (serverless, AWS manages nodes)? You pick one from each. "Fargate" isn't an alternative to EKS, you can run EKS on Fargate or ECS on Fargate. Amazon ECS is AWS's own orchestrator. It's simpler, deeply integrated, and has no control-plane Choose ECS when: You want to run co

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