Email Service - Email Sending now in public beta
Email Sending is now in public beta. Send transactional emails directly from Workers ( env.EMAIL.send() ) or the REST API, with support for HTML, plain text, attachments, inline images, and custom headers.
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You can stream messages from Pub/Sub directly to a Bigtable table using Bigtable subscriptions
You can stream messages from Pub/Sub directly to a Bigtable table using Bigtable subscriptions . This feature lets you write streaming messages to Bigtable without needing a separate subscriber such as Dataflow. This feature is available in Preview .
GitLab 18.11 release notes
On April 16, 2026, GitLab 18.11 was released with the following features. In addition, we want to thank all of our contributors, including this month’s notable contributor. This month’s Notable Contributor: Rinku C We are excited to recognize Rinku C , a Level 4 contributor with over 80 merged improvements across GitLab since joining in September 2025.
Windows node monitoring for Kubernetes is now Generally Available
We're excited to announce that Windows node monitoring for Kubernetes is now Generally Available . What's included Unified Helm chart: Windows and Linux nodes are now monitored using the same newrelic-infrastructure chart, no separate installation needed. A single enableWindows: true flag in your values.yaml is all it takes.
Precise log filtering with Adaptive Logs Drop rules
Adaptive Logs Drop rules allow you precisely define noisy or wasteful logs to drop, and can be used in addition to our own optimization recommendations. Use cases for drop rules include filtering out debug logs, dropping health check log lines, or downsampling in non-production environments.
Feature Flag and Experiment targeting based on First Seen Timestamp
What it is: Remote evaluation for flags and experiments now includes a built-in "First Seen" user property, pulled from the amp ID table at evaluation time. Flags and experiments can target on this value directly, bypassing the cohort membership update cycle that makes new-user targeting unreliable.
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AI Search instances now include built-in storage and namespace Workers Bindings
New AI Search instances created after today will work differently. New instances come with built-in storage and a vector index, so you can upload a file, have it indexed immediately, and search it right away. Additionally new Workers Bindings are now available to use with AI Search.
AI Search now has hybrid search and relevance boosting
AI Search now supports hybrid search and relevance boosting, giving you more control over how results are found and ranked. Hybrid search Hybrid search combines vector (semantic) search with BM25 keyword search in a single query. Vector search finds chunks with similar meaning, even when the exact words differ.
Artifacts now in beta: versioned filesystem with Git access
Artifacts is now in private beta. Artifacts is Git-compatible storage built for scale: create tens of millions of repos, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client. It provides a versioned filesystem for storing and exchanging file trees across Workers, the REST API, and any Git client, running locally or within an agent.
Access - Homepage and sign-out for MCP server portals
MCP server portals display a homepage when users visit the portal domain in a browser. The homepage shows: The portal name and organization branding The MCP endpoint URL with a copy button Per-client connection instructions for Claude Desktop, Workers AI Playground, OpenCode, Windsurf, and other MCP clients Authenticated users see their email address and a...
AI Crawl Control - Introducing Redirects for AI Training
Cloudflare's network now supports redirecting verified AI training crawlers to canonical URLs when they request deprecated or duplicate pages. When enabled via AI Crawl Control > Quick Actions , AI training crawlers that request a page with a canonical tag pointing elsewhere receive a 301 redirect to the canonical version.
AI Crawl Control - Tools to prepare your site for the agentic Internet
AI Crawl Control now includes new tools to help you prepare your site for the agentic Internet, a web where AI agents are first-class citizens that discover and interact with content differently than human visitors.
Cache - Smart Tiered Cache optimizes public cloud origins
You can now achieve higher cache HIT rates and reduce origin load for origins hosted on public cloud providers with Smart Tiered Cache . By setting a cloud region hint for your origin, Cloudflare selects the optimal upper-tier data center for that cloud region, funneling all cache MISSes through a single location close to your origin.
Radar - AI Insights updates on Cloudflare Radar
Radar adds three new features to the AI Insights ↗ page, expanding visibility into how AI bots, crawlers, and agents interact with the web. Adoption of AI agent standards The AI Insights page now includes an adoption of AI agent standards ↗ widget that tracks how websites adopt agent-facing standards.