Releasesby GlyphVercel MCP now supports the 2026-07-28 MCP specification
Vercel MCP now supports the 2026-07-28 MCP specification, giving newer clients a stateless request model and updated authorization behavior without any change on the client side. Clients built for the 2025 protocol keep working exactly as before, and clients that understand the new specification pick it up automatically.
Also shipped Jul 31, 2026Vercel in July 2026 →
Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview
The web terminal in notebooks connected to serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is now in Public Preview . Use it to run shell commands, monitor GPU usage with nvidia-smi , install libraries, and manage files directly on the compute. This requires serverless GPU environment version 5 or above. See Run shell commands in Databricks web terminal .
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available. In a packaged clean room, a provider supplies notebooks, JARs, and data that a consumer runs against their own data without seeing the provider's code or data assets. See Packaged clean rooms .
OpenAI connector (Beta)
The OpenAI connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the OpenAI Organization Admin API to ingest organization administration data, such as users, projects, API keys, usage, costs, and audit logs, from OpenAI into Databricks.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-July
In late-July 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Regex-based dynamic data masking (DDM) extends the built-in DDM feature with pattern‑based masking to hide sensitive data like emails, phone numbers, and identifiers, centrally
Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on September 1st, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative Gemini 3.1 Pro 9-1-2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash Claude Opus 4.5 9-1-2026 Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.8, or Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus...
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated
As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions).
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Run background tasks with Celery on Vercel
Celery , an asynchronous distributed task queue for Python, is now supported natively on Vercel. Tasks are executed as Vercel Functions and automatically scale with traffic. By default, task results are stored in Runtime Cache , which is sufficient for small data sizes and relatively short workflow runtimes.
Chat SDK now supports reactions and ephemeral messages on Teams
Chat SDK's Microsoft Teams adapter now supports reactions and ephemeral messages through the same API as other adapters. Bots can add and remove reactions on Teams messages, and call thread.postEphemeral() or channel.postEphemeral() to send native, targeted messages that only the intended user sees, like permission prompts.
Vercel Passport is now generally available
Vercel Passport is now generally available. Passport allows you to protect your Vercel deployments with your own identity provider. Visitors authenticate through Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, or any OIDC provider before viewing a protected deployment, and Vercel forwards a signed identity token to the deployment so application code can build on who the visitor...
Server-Timing response headers will pass through to the client
On August 10, 2026, Vercel's CDN will stop stripping the Server-Timing response header and begin passing it through to the client. Use Server-Timing to report backend metrics like database query time and cache hits. These values appear in the browser's network panel and as PerformanceServerTiming entries through the Performance API.
Turborepo and Vercel Remote Cache now support OpenID Connect (OIDC)
You can now exchange OIDC tokens from CI/CD workflows, including GitHub workflows , for short-lived Turborepo access tokens. These tokens grant access to Vercel's Remote Cache , and are a more secure alternative to long-lived Personal Access Tokens (PATs).
Deployments are now up to 7 seconds faster
Over the past few months, we've made deployments up to 7 seconds faster end to end. We removed up to 5 seconds of fixed platform overhead from every build, and deploys from the latest Vercel CLI save up to 2 seconds more. The improvements are most noticeable on smaller builds, where orchestration represents a larger share of the total build time.
Latest MCP spec now supported in mcp-handler
mcp-handler@2.0.0 is now available with support for the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification and MCP TypeScript SDK v2 . We originally built mcp-handler to make it easier to spin up MCP servers on popular web frameworks including Next, Nuxt, Svelte, and more.
Introducing Enterprise Flexible Commitment for Vercel Marketplace
Enterprise customers can now apply a portion of their Flexible Commitment toward eligible resources purchased through the Vercel Marketplace. With Flex Commit support, eligible Marketplace cost can draw directly from your existing commitment making it easier to provision the infrastructure and services your applications need.