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Cloudflare, August 2026 new features

104 releases · 1 product · 13 GA · 4 Preview · 7 Beta · 1 Deprecation · 4 Pricing

Browser Run - Crawl endpoint now respects the Content Signals `use` directive

The /crawl endpoint now respects the use directive of the Content Signals ↗ standard, letting site owners express the maximum level at which their content may be used. You can declare your intended level with the new contentUse parameter. Allowed values, from least to most permissive, are reference and full , and the default is full .

Update

WAF Release - 2026-08-25

This release moves four new detections from Log to Block, merges the XSS, HTML Injection - Script Tag - Beta rule into the original rule, and adds a Generic Rules - Remote Code Execution rule in Block mode.

Beta

Cloudflare One Appliance, Cloudflare One, Cloudflare WAN - Download the Cloudflare One Virtual Appliance for your hypervisor from the dashboard

When you register a Cloudflare One Virtual Appliance , you can now select your hypervisor and download the appliance directly from the dashboard , no need to look up asset URLs. On the Connectors page, select Add an appliance , choose Virtual appliance , then select your hypervisor: VMware ESXi , Proxmox , or libvirt/KVM .

Update

Cloudflare Tunnel, Cloudflare Tunnel for SASE - Configure origin application settings for Cloudflare Tunnel in the dashboard

You can now configure origin application settings directly in the Cloudflare dashboard when adding or editing a published application route for a Cloudflare Tunnel . These settings control how cloudflared connects to your origin server and were previously only available in the Cloudflare One dashboard or via local configuration files.

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Workers AI - Qwen 3.8 27B now available on Workers AI

@cf/qwen/qwen3.8-27b is now available on Workers AI. Qwen 3.8 27B is a 27-billion-parameter instruction-tuned vision language model from Alibaba's Qwen family. It processes images and text together, with reasoning and function calling for agentic workflows. Key capabilities: Vision : Accept image and text inputs and generate text responses.

Update

Workers AI - DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro now available on Workers AI

@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 and @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 are now available on Workers AI. DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Pro are the first Workers AI models with a full one million (1,048,576) token context window .

Preview

Cloudflare Tunnel, Cloudflare Tunnel for SASE, Cloudflare Mesh, Gateway, Cloudflare One - Hostname routing is now generally available, with a new public IP range for initial resolved IPs

Hostname routing ↗ is now generally available. Instead of managing static IP lists and routes, you can route traffic by hostname across multiple Cloudflare One connectors: Cloudflare Tunnel : route a private hostname (for example, wiki.internal.local ) to a private application behind your tunnel, or a public hostname (for example, bank.example.com ) to...

GA

Turnstile Spin is now generally available

Turnstile Spin is now generally available with three setup paths for creating a Turnstile widget and wiring canonical server-side siteverify into your existing backend. Start in the dashboard, with Wrangler, or from your AI coding agent. All three paths create the same widget.

GA

Sandbox SDK 1.0 preview on @next

Sandbox SDK 1.0 is available to preview under the npm @next tag. For existing applications, the current stable package remains published on the 0.12.x line. Sandbox SDK first shipped to provide a rich library for running untrusted and agent-driven work on Cloudflare Containers . Since then, both Sandbox and Containers have matured.

Preview

AI Gateway - Track AI spend and catch anomalous usage with User Insights

AI Gateway now includes User Insights, a dashboard that gives you two things at once: clear visibility into how much your organization spends on AI, and a security signal that surfaces users whose usage suddenly looks abnormal. It works on the traffic already flowing through your gateway, so there is no additional setup.

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WAF Release - 2026-08-04

This release introduces new rules and updates Microsoft SharePoint RCE alongside enhanced SSRF cloud protection rule actions. Key Findings CVE-2026-50522: An insecure deserialization vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server. This may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code using crafted requests.

Beta