Vercel
Vercel's MCP Servers Ditch Session State for the New Spec
Vercel's hosted MCP servers and the mcp-handler library now serve the stateless 2026-07-28 spec, no client-side changes required.
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Firebase
Firebase Sunsets Extensions, Its Third Wind-Down This Year
Firebase will retire Extensions by March 2027, the third major product wind-down in about a year, after Studio and ML.
Supabase
Supabase Stops Honoring Your Pinned Extension Versions
Starting August 5, Supabase ignores explicit version numbers on Postgres extensions and installs the default version instead, closing a security gap.
Supabase
Supabase's Self-Hosted Stack Swaps Kong for Envoy Next Week
Supabase is flipping the default API gateway in its self-hosted Docker stack from Kong to Envoy the week of Aug 9, 2026, a breaking change for some setups.
Vercel
Vercel Puts Internal Apps and AI Agents Behind Your Identity Provider
Vercel Passport reached general availability July 31, gating internal apps and AI agents behind Okta, Entra ID, Auth0 or any OIDC provider.
Netlify
Netlify Makes New Projects Private by Default, Not Existing Ones
New Netlify teams on Credit-based plans now get private projects automatically. Teams that signed up before July 28 keep the old public-by-default behavior.
Vercel
Vercel Now Lets You Sign In With ChatGPT
A new beta login option lets developers authenticate to Vercel and v0 with a ChatGPT account, or connect the two from inside ChatGPT itself.
Firebase
Firebase's Newest Gemini Models Are Cheaper, Not Bigger
Firebase AI Logic now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper than 3.5 Flash, but Google shipped no flagship model alongside them.
Netlify
React Router 7.18 Fixes Two Bugs Its Own Patches Missed
React Router 7.18.0 closes a DoS in the manifest endpoint and an open-redirect bypass, both follow-ups to fixes shipped earlier in 2026 that didn't fully hold.