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latest_date: 2026-04-09
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<Summary type="rolling" window-days="90" release-count="11">
Val Town shipped infrastructure to make agents first-class: Townie evolved to v5 powered by Claude 4.5 and a Model Context Protocol integration, every val gained an embedded SQLite database, and the platform added OAuth and authentication infrastructure via BetterAuth migration. The moves reflect a shift toward agent-native development—supporting GPT Realtime integrations, bringing your own agent patterns, and making internal tools and AI agents deployable directly on Val Town. Recent updates tuned Townie's system prompt and expanded the standard library, while the team began public investor communication around 21% revenue growth.
</Summary>

<Summary type="monthly" period="March 2026" release-count="3">
Focused on agent capabilities and developer tooling. Shipped GPT Realtime 1.5 integration for vals, expanding voice and email agent support, while rolling out Townie v5, an overhauled SQLite implementation, and Language Server Protocol support to strengthen the development experience.
</Summary>

<Release date="April 9, 2026" published="2026-04-09T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/code-is-inert">
## Code is inert. Val Town makes it ert

Whether or not you read the code, it's gotta be ert
</Release>

<Release date="April 7, 2026" published="2026-04-07T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/2026-mar">
## Investor Update – March 2026

21% revenue growth. Everyone's building AI agents and internal tools. You should deploy them on Val Town
</Release>

<Release date="April 2, 2026" published="2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/changelog-04022026">
## Changelog — Apr 2, 2026

Better Townie system prompt, std/oauth, migrating from Clerk to BetterAuth, Deno 2.7.5, and more
</Release>

<Release date="March 26, 2026" published="2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-mar-2026">
## Talk of the Town — Mar 2026

Calling vals with GPT Realtime 1.5, NYC doorman, email and voice agents, and more
</Release>

<Release date="March 17, 2026" published="2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/2026-feb">
## Investor Update – Feb 2026

Our first public investor update
</Release>

<Release date="March 10, 2026" published="2026-03-10T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/newsletter-26">
## Newsletter 26

Townie v5, MCP, Revamped SQLite, Teams, LSP, and more
</Release>

<Release date="February 25, 2026" published="2026-02-25T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/byoa">
## Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA)

Your agent should answer to you, not your vendor
</Release>

<Release date="February 18, 2026" published="2026-02-18T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-feb-2026">
## Talk of the Town — Feb 2026

Valentine's Day, ATProto, & other vals we love
</Release>

<Release date="January 23, 2026" published="2026-01-23T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/scoped-databases">
## Every val gets a database!

Every user gets a database interface!
</Release>

<Release date="January 22, 2026" published="2026-01-22T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/townie-v5">
## Townie's back in town!

Townie v5, powered by Val Town MCP and Claude 4.5
</Release>

<Release date="January 14, 2026" published="2026-01-14T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/catching-stars">
## Catching stars

Finding new customers & hires from your GitHub stargazers
</Release>

<Release date="December 8, 2025" published="2025-12-08T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/pickling">
## Pickling Compute

Why Val Town is selling inbound lead qualification to B2B startups
</Release>

<Release date="November 14, 2025" published="2025-11-14T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/mcp">
## Introducing Val Town MCP

Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM
</Release>

<Release date="November 4, 2025" published="2025-11-04T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/oss-pledge">
## Year Two of the Open Source Pledge

Continuing to fund open source software
</Release>

<Release date="October 2, 2025" published="2025-10-02T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/in-val-out">
## In, Val, Out

I/O with a val in the middle
</Release>

<Release date="September 11, 2025" published="2025-09-11T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/gardening-dependencies">
## How to keep package.json under control

How I wrangle the many tools that we use to build Val Town
</Release>

<Release date="September 10, 2025" published="2025-09-10T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/vt-cli">
## Introducing vt, the Val Town CLI

Write your scripts on the internet, from your terminal, or in any editor
</Release>

<Release date="September 9, 2025" published="2025-09-09T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/vtlsp">
## Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Running the Deno LSP to make our TypeScript language tools dramatically better
</Release>

<Release date="August 13, 2025" published="2025-08-13T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/teams">
## Val Town for Teams

Bring Val Town to work
</Release>

<Release date="August 12, 2025" published="2025-08-12T00:00:00.000Z" url="https://blog.val.town/clay">
## How we built an API for Clay

Enriching users to find ideal customers
</Release>

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