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Cloudflare One Appliance, Cloudflare One, Cloudflare WAN - Restart, reboot, or shut down a Cloudflare One Appliance from the dashboard

You can now restart, reboot, or shut down a Cloudflare One Appliance directly from the dashboard or via API. Restart — Restart managed services. Purges temporary and (optionally) persistent state. Reboot — Power cycle the appliance. Optionally, purge persistent state. Re-applies configuration starting from scratch. Shutdown — Power off the appliance. Optionally, purge persistent state. The machine will be offline until manually powered on again. In the dashboard, go to Networking > Connectors >

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Cloudflare Fundamentals, Organizations - Distributor, MSSP, and Agency partners can manage Organization members directly

Distributor, MSSP, and Agency partners on Cloudflare Organizations can now add and manage Organization Members directly from the Cloudflare dashboard, without help from Cloudflare. Previously, adding a member to a Distributor, MSSP, or Agency Organization was a manual, Cloudflare-assisted process that required a request to Cloudflare and enrollment in a closed beta, and the dashboard Add member flow was blocked for these Organizations. Now, Organization admins can add members themselves from Org

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Gateway - New header control options for Gateway HTTP policies

Cloudflare Gateway now supports advanced header control on Allow policies. Administrators can add, overwrite, or delete headers on matching requests using static values or dynamic variables. Header operations Gateway HTTP policies using the Allow action support three operations in rule_settings: Operation API field Behavior Add add_headers Appends a value to the header. Existing values are preserved. Overwrite set_headers Replaces the header value. Creates the header if it does not ex

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Email Service - Preview sent emails in the Activity log

You can now preview the content of sent emails directly from the Email Service Activity log. Expand a sent email and open the new Preview section to inspect the message as it was sent, across tabs for the rendered HTML body, the Text body, the Headers, the Attachments, and the full Raw RFC 5322 source. Previously, the Activity log surfaced delivery and authentication metadata but not the message content, making rendering and content issues harder to debug. Message preview closes that gap. To ma

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WAF - WAF Release - 2026-07-17 - Emergency

This emergency release adds a new managed rule to block active exploitation of a critical remote code execution (RCE) and SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability found in popular web frameworks. Key Findings Generic Frameworks - Unauthenticated RCE: Attackers can execute arbitrary system commands with web server privileges by sending malicious input containing invalid path sequences during request processing. Generic Frameworks - SQLi: Attackers can execute unauthorized database queries due to a fail

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