What Cloudflare shipped in 2024

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 adds post-quantum DNSSEC validation with ML-DSA-44

Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver now validates DNSSEC signatures using NIST’s post-quantum ML-DSA-44 algorithm, a first for DNS resolvers. The update tests large 2,420-byte signatures at internet sca…

Cloudflare saves 100 TB of memory by optimizing DNS cache layout

Cloudflare reduced per-entry DNS cache memory usage by 56% through five Rust-level optimizations, freeing ~100 TB of RAM across its fleet. Insert throughput rose 43% and lookup latency dropped 19% wit…

Cloudflare Introduces Multiple Feature Updates Across Security, Caching, and Developer Tools

Cloudflare has introduced several key updates across its product ecosystem, primarily focused on enhancing security, caching efficiency, and developer workflows. The most impactful change is the expan…

Cloudflare Changelog Updates

Cloudflare has introduced several updates across its platform. The most significant change is the open beta launch of Workflows, which allows developers to build multi-step applications that can run f…

Cloudflare adds zero-latency SQLite storage to Durable Objects

Cloudflare integrated SQLite into its Durable Objects (DO) serverless platform, enabling zero-latency SQL queries by running the database as an embedded library in the same thread as application code.…

Cloudflare launches Disallow AI Training and Accountable mixed-use crawler designation

Cloudflare introduced a new 'Disallow AI Training' setting to let site owners block AI training while remaining discoverable in search, supported by Apple, Google, and Microsoft under a new 'Accountab…

Cloudflare Introduces Risk Score Exchange with Okta and Launches New Changelog

Cloudflare has introduced a new feature allowing users to exchange risk scores with Okta, enhancing security policies at the SSO level. This integration enables Cloudflare One to send user risk scores…

Cloudflare integrates with Okta to exchange user risk scores for SSO policies

Cloudflare One now allows exchanging user risk scores with Okta to inform SSO-level policies, enabling more granular access controls. Users must configure Cloudflare One to send risk scores and Okta t…

Cloudflare Launches New Changelog for Cloudflare One and Adds GDPR-Compliant RUM Exclusion

Cloudflare launched a dedicated changelog page for Cloudflare One, consolidating product updates with deeper documentation, examples, and visual aids. This new changelog format replaces older, product…

Cloudflare proposes Agent Access Model (AAM) for securing task-scoped agents

Cloudflare introduced the Agent Access Model (AAM), a new security architecture to address the unique challenges of task-scoped agents, which differ from human users in ephemerality, speed, and compos…

BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234

Cloudflare analyzes RFC 9234, a new BGP standard introducing 'BGP Roles' and the 'Only to Customer' (OTC) attribute to prevent route leaks by encoding AS relationship intent directly in the protocol. …

Cloudflare adds hostname-based routing to Cloudflare Tunnel for Zero Trust

Cloudflare introduced hostname-based routing in Cloudflare Tunnel, allowing users to secure and route traffic to private or public apps using hostnames instead of IP addresses. This feature is now fre…

Cloudflare open sources Pingora, a Rust framework for programmable network services

Cloudflare released Pingora, its Rust-based async multithreaded framework for building HTTP proxy services, as open source under Apache 2.0. The framework powers a significant portion of Cloudflare’s …

Cloudflare Web Analytics adds EU visitor exclusion for RUM compliance

Cloudflare introduced a feature in Web Analytics to exclude EU visitor data from Real User Monitoring (RUM) to comply with GDPR and CCPA. Users can now enable RUM for hostnames while automatically dro…

Cloudflare adds EU visitor exclusion to Web Analytics RUM

Cloudflare introduced a feature allowing users to exclude EU visitors from Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Web Analytics to comply with GDPR and CCPA. The exclusion is enabled via a single-click option …

Cloudflare introduced a feature allowing users to exclude EU visitors from Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Web Analytics to comply with GDPR and CCPA. The exclusion is enabled via a single click in the

Cloudflare introduced a feature allowing users to exclude EU visitor data from Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Web Analytics to comply with GDPR and CCPA. The change enables one-click exclusion of metri

Cloudflare Web Analytics now lets users enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) while automatically excluding EU visitor data to comply with GDPR and CCPA. The feature drops metrics from EU data centers wit

Cloudflare introduced a feature in Web Analytics to exclude EU visitor data from Real User Monitoring (RUM) to comply with GDPR and CCPA. The change allows one-click enablement of RUM while automatica

Cloudflare advances post-quantum cryptography adoption in TLS 1.3

Cloudflare reports nearly 2% of all TLS 1.3 connections are now secured with post-quantum cryptography, with double-digit adoption expected by year-end 2024. The company highlights Apple’s iMessage an…