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Cloudflare Changelog

Access - Tool and prompt aliases for MCP server portals

When you connect third-party MCP servers through MCP server portals, you have no control over how the server author named tools or wrote descriptions. Unclear names make it harder for AI agents to select the right tool and harder for users to understand what is available. You can now rename tools and prompts and rewrite their descriptions directly on the portal, without modifying the upstream server. For example, a tool named super_cool_tool can become search_customer_records with a description

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Vercel Blog

Team-wide provider allowlist on AI Gateway

AI Gateway now supports a team-wide provider allowlist. Teams can restrict which providers can serve requests, so traffic only routes to approved providers. The allowlist applies to every request through AI Gateway, including Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) traffic. Regulated teams typically vet AI providers across multiple dimensions with security and legal sign-off, ending up with a vendor set that reflects the specific requirements of their org. The allowlist turns that approved-vendor list into a

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Cloudflare Changelog

R2 - R2 Data Catalog gets a dedicated dashboard experience

R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket. It exposes a standard Iceberg REST catalog interface so you can connect query engines like Spark, Snowflake, DuckDB, and R2 SQL to your data in R2. R2 Data Catalog now has a dedicated section in the Cloudflare dashboard, replacing the previous settings panel embedded in R2 bucket configuration. The new experience includes: Catalog overview — View all your catalogs in one place with catalog request coun

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Cloudflare Changelog

Containers - Wrangler supports SSH ProxyCommand for Containers

Wrangler supports using wrangler containers ssh as an OpenSSH ProxyCommand for Containers. This lets your local SSH client connect to a running Container through Wrangler. ssh -o ProxyCommand="wrangler containers ssh %h" cloudchamber@<INSTANCE_ID> When standard input and output are piped, Wrangler forwards data to the SSH server in the Container. You can also pass --stdio to force this mode. For more information, refer to the SSH documentation.

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Elastic Blog

Elastic Stack 8.19.16 released

Version 8.19.16 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 8.19.16 over the previous versions 8.19.15 The 8.19.16 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security advisory for more details. 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.

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Elastic Blog

Elastic Stack 9.4.2 released

Version 9.4.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 9.4.2 over the previous versions 9.4.1 The 9.4.2 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Please see our security advisory for more details. 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.

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