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Responses that Cloudflare chooses not to cache now consistently return a BYPASS cache status instead of a mix of BYPASS and MISS, giving you a clearer signal in logs and more accurate cache hit ratios in analytics.

May 26Flagship

Flagship now in public beta

Evaluate feature flags at the edge directly from Cloudflare Workers with Flagship, Cloudflare's native feature flag service.

May 21AI Gateway

Call any AI model through AI Gateway's new REST API

Call third-party and Workers AI models through one Cloudflare REST API, with AI Gateway features applied automatically.

May 21Cloudflare Fundamentals

Granular permissions for Cloudflare Tunnel and Cloudflare Mesh

New resource-scoped permissions allow administrators to grant access to specific Cloudflare Tunnel instances and Cloudflare Mesh nodes instead of all tunnels and nodes in an account.

May 21Workers VPC

Reach Cloudflare WAN destinations from Workers VPC

VPC Network bindings using cf1:network now reach destinations connected through Cloudflare WAN on-ramps (GRE, IPsec, CNI), in addition to Cloudflare Mesh nodes and subnet or hostname routes announced through Cloudflare Tunnel or Mesh.

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WAF

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