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Deno hands the runtime to Cloudflare as platform SDKs broaden
October 5–11, 2026
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare, with the Deno runtime moving to maintenance-only for a year and Deno Deploy shutting down in six months. Elsewhere Cloudflare shipped its One clients to general availability and Vercel expanded AI Gateway's model roster.
The week at a glance
Replay the weekBiggest releases
- 01Deno team joins Cloudflare, Deno runtime support ends after one year
Deno - 02Cloudflare Organizations reaches general availability for Enterprise and MSSP partners
Cloudflare One - 03AI SDK adds HeyGen provider for text, image, and reference-to-video generation
Vercel - 04Cloudflare Workers AI adds Clef-omni audio and video decision model
Developer Platform - 05Cloudflare WAF adds F5 BIG-IP heap-overflow detection and blocks command injection rule
Application Security
Deno's runtime enters maintenance as its team joins Cloudflare
The week's biggest story is an ending. The entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare to work alongside the Workers and Durable Objects teams, and the Deno runtime will receive only monthly bug-fix and security releases for another year before development stops. Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, with migration support offered to paying customers moving onto Cloudflare Workers, while JSR keeps operating with its infrastructure relocating to Cloudflare. For anyone running Deno in production, the clock is now explicit: a year of patches, then nothing. The practical read is to start planning a move — Workers for edge functions, Node or Bun for local runtimes — and to treat any new Deno Deploy dependency as a dead end.
Cloudflare's device clients and account management reach GA
Cloudflare One's clients all graduated this week. On macOS, the client is generally available and now keeps its learned split tunnel configuration across reconnects, so excluded resources are no longer briefly blocked while the tunnel comes up. Linux got the same GA treatment plus fixes for reauthentication, MTU handling, DNS-over-HTTPS timeouts, and several crashes, and Windows followed with split tunnel and DNS fixes plus a scheduled task that restarts the client service on unlock. Alongside that, Cloudflare Organizations is now generally available for Enterprise and MSSP partners, giving large customers a single container for accounts, members, analytics, and shared policies — a smaller mirror of it landed on the core platform too.
AI Gateway and the AI SDK both widen their model surface
Vercel spent the week filling AI Gateway with models: Liquid AI's d1, FLUX 3 Image for generation and editing, Claude Haiku 5.5 with automatic fallbacks and spend tracking, free stealth access to Glyph Cluster, OpenAI Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, and OpenAI's Decisions API with GPT-6 Luna Decisions. The more interesting change is routing: Gateway can now escalate a decision to a fallback model when the primary answer trips a confidence condition you set. Firewall-mitigated traffic also stopped counting toward billed Microfrontends Routing requests. The AI SDK added a HeyGen provider for text, image, and reference-to-video generation, set up a persistent WebSocket chat transport with resume support and a top-level embeddings dimensions setting, and introduced a portable max reasoning level — a widening of the reasoning type that providers with exhaustive switches must handle before upgrading.
Worker tooling, security rules, and smaller shifts
Cloudflare's Workers chain moved together around assets.base_path, which serves an asset directory from a public URL prefix without changing its on-disk layout, a value now preserved across Wrangler, Miniflare, and generated build config. Wrangler also stopped mangling URL-unsafe R2 keys in local mode and renamed Analytics SQL bindings to bindings.analytics(). On security, the WAF added F5 BIG-IP heap-overflow detection and moved a command injection rule from log to block, and Workers AI gained Clef-omni, a decision model taking audio and video alongside text and images, with Clef-flash getting cheaper.
Smaller notes: Railway's CLI added --environment to its infrastructure-as-code plan, apply, and pull commands and then required an explicit --variables choice; Turborepo introduced task tags with query filtering; and 129 lower-priority releases shipped across the collection.
Releases covered24
- Cloudflare One Client for macOS reaches GA with split tunnel persistence across reconnects (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare One Client for Linux hits GA with reconnection and memory fixes (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare One Client for Windows 2026.8.2100 reaches GA with split tunnel and DNS fixes (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare Organizations reaches general availability for Enterprise and MSSP partners (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare Workers SDK adds assets base_path support for Workers Assets (opens in new tab)
- Wrangler 4.148.0 adds Workers Assets base_path and R2 local key fix (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare Workers SDK config 0.24.0 adds assets base_path and renames analytics bindings (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare WAF adds F5 BIG-IP heap-overflow detection and blocks command injection rule (opens in new tab)
- Cloudflare Workers AI adds Clef-omni audio and video decision model (opens in new tab)
- Liquid AI d1 now available on Vercel AI Gateway (opens in new tab)
- Vercel adds FLUX 3 Image model to AI Gateway (opens in new tab)
- Claude Haiku 5.5 now available through Vercel AI Gateway (opens in new tab)
- Vercel AI Gateway adds free stealth access to Glyph Cluster (opens in new tab)
- Vercel AI Gateway adds OpenAI Ultrafast mode for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol (opens in new tab)
- Vercel AI Gateway adds OpenAI Decisions API support (opens in new tab)
- Vercel AI Gateway adds confidence-based decision fallbacks (opens in new tab)
- Vercel makes Microfrontends Routing free for Firewall-mitigated traffic (opens in new tab)
- AI SDK adds HeyGen provider for text, image, and reference-to-video generation (opens in new tab)
- AI SDK 7.0.135 adds persistent WebSocket chat transport and embeddings dimensions setting (opens in new tab)
- AI SDK 7.0.129 adds portable max reasoning level and deprecation warnings (opens in new tab)
- Turborepo v2.11.8-canary.1 adds task tags with config inheritance and query filtering (opens in new tab)