What Vercel shipped in February 2026

Gamma builds design-first agents with Vercel

Gamma, a company focused on AI-driven presentation design, has evolved its product to include Gamma Agent, a conversational editing tool that enhances user interaction with presentations. The company …

How Avalara turns pipe dreams into patent-pending with v0

Avalara, a company that automates tax compliance for over 1,400 systems, has transformed its product development process using Vercel's v0. This tool allows Avalara to turn plain language descriptions…

Assigning a domain to a Git branch

Vercel now allows Pro and Enterprise teams to assign domains to specific Git branches, enabling custom environments beyond the default production branch. This can be configured via the dashboard or th…

Vercel enables marking environment variables as sensitive

Vercel introduced a feature allowing users to mark environment variables as sensitive, making their values non-readable after creation. This applies to both project and shared environment variables in…

Vercel introduces Attack Mode to strengthen DDoS protection

Vercel launched Attack Mode, a security feature that challenges visitors during DDoS attacks while automatically allowing known bots and internal requests. Available for free on all plans, it adds an …

Vercel WAF adds system bypass rules for IP-based exemptions

Vercel introduced system bypass rules for its Web Application Firewall (WAF) to prevent legitimate traffic from being blocked by system-level mitigations. Users can now whitelist specific IP addresses…

Vercel WAF gains instant rollback, expanded custom rules, and Enterprise IP blocking

Vercel updated its Web Application Firewall (WAF) with instant rollback for firewall configurations, expanded custom rules (up to 1000 on Enterprise), and account-level IP blocking for Enterprise plan…

Vercel WAF gains custom rules with natural language and persistent actions

Vercel expanded its Web Application Firewall (WAF) with custom rules that can be configured via natural language prompts, enabling actions like log, deny, challenge, bypass, or rate limiting. Rules ta…

Vercel introduces sharable links for secure deployment access

Vercel added sharable links to let external users access deployments via query parameters, including comment functionality. Access is role-based: non-production domains allow Developers, while product…

Chat SDK adds Telegram adapter support

Vercel's Chat SDK has added support for Telegram, expanding its single-codebase approach to include Slack, Discord, GitHub, and Teams. This update allows developers to build bots that support mentions…

Vercel Queues now in public beta

Vercel has launched Vercel Queues, a durable event streaming system built with Fluid compute, now available in public beta for all teams. This system allows functions to defer expensive work and guara…

Vercel introduces Deployment Protection Exceptions for preview domains

Vercel added a feature allowing users to disable Deployment Protection (including Vercel Authentication, Password Protection, and Trusted IPs) for specific preview domains. Exceptions can be added or …

Vercel Introduces Community Guardian and c0 Research Assistant

Vercel has introduced the Community Guardian, an AI-powered system designed to enhance community engagement by automating routine tasks. The Guardian analyzes new posts, checks for duplicates, and ass…

Vercel rolls out Vercel Authentication for deployment access control

Vercel introduced Vercel Authentication to restrict access to public and non-public deployments, requiring users to log in to view or comment. The feature is available on all plans and integrates with…

Vercel introduces Password Protection for deployments

Vercel added Password Protection to its deployment protection methods, requiring visitors to enter a predefined password to access deployments. The feature can be enabled per environment via dashboard…

GPT 5.3 Codex

Vercel has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex, an advanced model that combines the coding performance of GPT-5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2. This model is 25% fa…

New dashboard redesign is now the default

Vercel has rolled out a new dashboard navigation design as the default experience for all users, following a successful beta release in January 2026. The redesign includes a new resizable sidebar, con…

Nano Banana 2 is live on AI Gateway

Nano Banana 2, an update to Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview, is now available on AI Gateway. This release enhances visual quality while maintaining the speed and cost of flash-tier models. Key improvem…

Developer role now available for Pro teams

Vercel has introduced the Developer role for Pro teams, a feature previously exclusive to Enterprise teams. This role provides more granular access control, allowing developers to deploy to projects w…

Wan v2.6 Image-to-Video

The content describes the AI Gateway by Vercel, highlighting its capabilities such as building applications with AI, providing a toolkit for TypeScript, and offering various features like scalable bot…

Changelog - Vercel

The most significant change is that the activity log now tracks 100% of team and project changes, providing complete visibility into who made changes and when. Previously, some settings changes went u…

OpenEvidence Case Study on Vercel Blog

OpenEvidence, a clinical decision support platform, experienced a sudden surge in traffic after going viral on TikTok, reaching two million views in a week. The platform, which supports over 20 millio…

Activity log now tracks 100% of team and project changes

Vercel has expanded its activity log to track 100% of team and project changes, addressing a previous gap where some settings changes went unrecorded. This update adds 88 new events, ensuring complete…

Slack Agent Skill simplifies building Slack agents with coding assistants

Vercel has launched the Slack Agent Skill, a tool that simplifies the process of building and deploying Slack agents. This skill automates complex tasks such as OAuth configuration, webhook handlers, …

Python Vercel Functions bundle size limit increased to 500MB

The bundle size limit for Vercel Functions using the Python runtime has been increased to 500MB, doubling the previous limit of 250MB. This change affects developers who use Python for serverless func…

Security Boundaries in Agentic Architectures

Vercel has published a blog post discussing the importance of security boundaries in agentic architectures. The article highlights that most agents today run generated code with full access to secrets…

GPT 5.3 Codex is now on AI Gateway

Vercel has announced the availability of GPT 5.3 Codex on AI Gateway. This model combines the coding capabilities of GPT-5.2-Codex with the reasoning depth of GPT-5.2, offering a 25% improvement in sp…

Safely inject credentials in HTTP headers with Vercel Sandbox

Vercel has introduced a new feature in Vercel Sandbox that allows for the safe injection of credentials into HTTP headers for outbound requests. This feature ensures that API keys and tokens remain ou…

Vercel Introduces Chat SDK in Public Beta

Vercel has open-sourced the Chat SDK in public beta, a unified TypeScript library that allows teams to write bot logic once and deploy it across multiple chat platforms including Slack, Microsoft Team…

Vercel introduces sandbox firewall with credentials brokering and live policy updates

Vercel launched a sandbox firewall feature enabling granular network policy control for sandboxes, including three modes (allow-all, deny-all, user-defined) and runtime policy updates. A key addition …

Vercel Sandbox introduces advanced firewall with live policy updates and credentials brokering

Vercel Sandbox now supports network firewall policies to restrict egress traffic, preventing data exfiltration. Users can choose between default allow-all, deny-all, or user-defined policies with doma…

Support for now.json will be removed on March 31, 2026

Vercel announced the removal of support for the legacy now.json config file, effective March 31, 2026. Users are advised to migrate their now.json files by renaming them to vercel.json, with no other …

Vercel introduces Protection Bypass for Automation to enable automated testing of protected deployments

Vercel launched Protection Bypass for Automation, allowing automated tools (CI/CD, E2E testing) to bypass deployment protection checks like password protection, Vercel Authentication, and Trusted IPs …

Skills Night: 62,000 ways agents are getting smarter

The most important fact is that the open skills ecosystem, skills.sh, has grown to include 62,000 skills and has seen 2 million skill CLI installs. This ecosystem began as a weekend project by Shu Din…

Skills Night: 69,000+ ways agents are getting smarter

The article discusses the rapid growth and impact of skills.sh, an open skills ecosystem that has expanded to over 69,000 skills and 2 million skill CLI installs. The platform, initially started by Sh…

Gemini 3.1 Pro is live on AI Gateway

The most important fact is that Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview model is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway. This release focuses on quality improvements for software engineering and agentic workflo…

Kling Video Models on AI Gateway

Vercel has integrated Kling video models, including the latest Kling 3.0, into its AI Gateway and AI SDK. This update enables users to generate cinematic videos from text, images, or motion references…

Vercel Introduces Billing Usage and Cost Data API

Vercel has introduced a new API endpoint, /billing/charges, that allows programmatic access to billing usage and cost data. This feature supports 1-day granularity and a maximum date range of one year…

Vercel Integrates Google's Veo Video Models into AI Gateway

Vercel has integrated Google's Veo video models into its AI Gateway, enabling users to generate photorealistic videos with synchronized audio. This feature is available through AI SDK 6 or the AI Gate…

Wan Models on AI Gateway

Vercel has integrated Alibaba's Wan models into its AI Gateway, enabling users to generate stylized videos and transform existing footage. The models offer features like Character Reference (R2V) for …

Grok Imagine Video Integration in AI Gateway

Vercel has integrated xAI's Grok Imagine Video into its AI Gateway, enabling users to generate high-quality videos with natural motion and audio. This feature is notable for its fast generation, stron…

Streamdown 2.3 Release

Streamdown 2.3 introduces a refreshed design with unified nested-card layouts for tables, code blocks, and Mermaid diagrams. The update includes sticky action buttons, immediate plain text rendering f…

Vercel Introduces Video Generation with AI Gateway

Vercel's AI Gateway has introduced video generation capabilities, marking a significant expansion of its AI-powered content creation tools. This new feature allows users to create cinematic-quality vi…

Private Storage for Vercel Blob Now Available in Public Beta

Vercel has introduced private storage for its Blob service, now available in public beta. This feature allows users to securely store sensitive files such as contracts, invoices, and internal reports,…

Vercel Optimizes WebStreams for 10x Faster Performance

**Vercel's fast-webstreams library makes WebStreams 10x faster, impacting server-side rendering and streaming APIs in Node.js.** Vercel has developed a new library called `fast-webstreams` that signi…

Vercel integrates with Sitecore XM Cloud for headless CMS deployments

Vercel now supports deploying headless JavaScript applications connected to Sitecore XM Cloud, enabling content management via GraphQL endpoints. Developers can create Next.js JSS applications using a…

Redesigned search and filtering for runtime logs

Vercel has redesigned the search and filtering functionality for runtime logs in its project dashboard, making it faster and more intuitive. The most significant change is the introduction of structur…

Recraft V4 on AI Gateway

Recraft V4, a text-to-image model designed for professional design and marketing, is now available on AI Gateway. This update introduces two versions: V4, optimized for speed and cost-efficiency, and …

Improved streaming runtime logs exports

Vercel has improved its runtime logs exports, enabling direct streaming to the browser, which allows users to continue working while exports run in the background. This change affects all users, elimi…

Automatic build fix suggestions with Vercel Agent

Vercel has introduced automatic build fix suggestions through its Vercel Agent, now available in GitHub pull request reviews and the Vercel Dashboard as of February 17, 2026. This feature scans deploy…

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is live on AI Gateway

Claude Sonnet 4.6, developed by Anthropic, is now available on AI Gateway with a 1M token context window, marking a significant upgrade in model capabilities. This version enhances agentic coding, cod…

Vercel Sandbox snapshots now allow custom retention periods

Vercel has introduced configurable expiration periods for snapshots created with Vercel Sandbox, replacing the previous 7-day limit. This change allows users to set custom retention periods ranging fr…

Automated Security Audits for Skills.sh

Skills.sh has introduced automated security audits for its skills, partnering with Gen, Socket, and Snyk to scale and audit over 60,000 skills. This update, launched on February 17, 2026, affects all …

How Stably ships AI testing agents in hours, not weeks

Stably, a 6-person startup, has significantly accelerated its AI testing agent deployment process, reducing it from weeks to hours, by leveraging Vercel's platform. This change is primarily due to Ver…

Stably, a 6-person startup, has significantly accelerated its AI testing agent deployment from weeks to hours by leveraging Vercel's platform. This shift has eliminated infrastructure anxiety, allowin

Vercel Flags Feature Update

Vercel has introduced Vercel Flags, a built-in feature flag provider designed to streamline feature management and experimentation for developers. This new tool allows users to create, configure, and …

Qwen 3.5 Plus is on AI Gateway

Qwen 3.5 Plus, a new AI model from Alibaba, is now available on AI Gateway as of February 16, 2026. This model introduces a 1M context window and built-in adaptive tool use, enhancing its capabilities…

Stale-if-error cache-control directive now supported for all responses

Vercel has introduced support for the `stale-if-error` directive with Cache-Control headers in its CDN, enhancing resilience during origin failures. This update allows users to specify how long a stal…

New deployments with vulnerable versions of the third-party package next-mdx-remote are now blocked by default

Vercel has implemented an automatic deployment block for any new deployments containing a vulnerable version of the third-party package next-mdx-remote, specifically targeting CVE-2026-0969. This chan…

Browserbase joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace

Browserbase is now available on the Vercel Marketplace, enabling teams to run browser automation for AI agents without managing infrastructure. This integration allows agents to connect to remote brow…

Use MiniMax M2.5 on AI Gateway

The most important fact is that MiniMax has released M2.5, its latest AI model, now available on AI Gateway. This update introduces significant improvements in planning capabilities, allowing M2.5 to …

Advanced egress firewall filtering for Vercel Sandbox

Vercel has introduced enhanced egress network policies for its Sandbox environment, enabling Server Name Indication (SNI) filtering and CIDR blocks to control outbound traffic. This update allows user…

Vercel Flags is now in public beta

Vercel has launched Vercel Flags, a new feature flag management tool integrated into its platform, now available in beta for all plan users. This tool allows teams to create and manage feature flags w…

GLM-5 is live on AI Gateway

Z.AI's GLM-5 model is now available on AI Gateway, eliminating the need for other provider accounts. This update introduces multiple thinking modes, enhanced long-range planning and memory, and improv…

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vercel logs CLI command now optimized for agents with historical log querying

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PostHog joins the Vercel Marketplace

PostHog has been added to the Vercel Marketplace as a feature flags, experimentation, and analytics provider. This integration allows developers building on Vercel to declare flags in code using the F…

Vercel CLI adds vercel curl command for automated deployment protection bypass

Vercel introduced a new `vercel curl` CLI command in beta that automates deployment protection bypass for testing protected deployments. The command wraps the system `curl` tool, adding a valid `x-ver…

Featured articles

Vercel has developed an AI Engine Optimization (AEO) system to track how AI models, particularly coding agents, discover, interpret, and reference their web content. Initially focused on standard chat…

Introducing new token formats and secret scanning

Vercel now automatically revokes exposed API credentials to prevent unauthorized account access, a significant security enhancement for its platform and v0 users. This change directly impacts all deve…

Anyone can build agents, but it takes a platform to run them

Vercel has launched an agent orchestration platform designed to help companies efficiently deploy and manage AI agents at scale, addressing the growing challenge of production deployment for internal …

How we built AEO tracking for coding agents

Vercel has introduced an AI Engine Optimization (AEO) system to track how AI models, including coding agents, discover, interpret, and reference their web content. This system is designed to provide a…

Introducing Geist Pixel

Vercel has expanded its Geist font family with the introduction of Geist Pixel, a bitmap-inspired typeface designed for modern digital products. Geist Pixel is not a novelty font but a functional tool…

Sanity is now available on the Vercel Marketplace

Sanity is now available as a native CMS integration on the Vercel Marketplace, a key move that directly affects developers and teams building projects on the Vercel platform. This integration allows u…

Simplified file retrieval from Vercel Sandbox environments

Vercel's Sandbox SDK has introduced two new methods, `downloadFile()` and `readFileToBuffer()`, that automate file retrieval from isolated development environments, eliminating a significant developer…

Press - Vercel

Vercel has rebuilt its v0 tool to address the challenge of connecting AI-generated code to existing production infrastructure, tackling what they refer to as the '90% problem.' This update affects dev…

The Vercel AI Accelerator is back with $6m in credits

Vercel has launched its third AI Accelerator program, offering 40 early-stage teams six weeks of mentorship, networking, and over $6 million in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms. …

CNBC: Tech Check Q&A with Deirdre Bosa

5 Feb 2026 Perspectives CNBC: Tech Check Q&A with Deirdre Bosa Deirdre Bosa sits down with Guillermo Rauch to make sense of the slew of new model releases this week and the fast-changing AI landscape.…

Use Claude Opus 4.6 on AI Gateway

Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 model is now accessible via AI Gateway, a significant move that expands its availability for developers building production AI agents. This update most importantly…

Parallel joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace

Parallelis now available on the Vercel Agent Marketplace, providing a native integration that simplifies how developers on that platform build AI agents with web access. This change directly affects d…

Parallel's Web Search and tools are live on Vercel

Parallel has launched a universal, LLM-optimized web search tool that is now fully integrated across the Vercel platform, including AI Gateway, the AI SDK, and the Vercel Marketplace. This change dire…

Build logs now support interactive links

URLs in build logs are now clickable, allowing developers to navigate directly to resources without manual copying. This change primarily affects developers and DevOps engineers who regularly monitor …

Vercel rebuilt v0 to tackle the 90% problem: Connecting AI-generated code to existing production infrastructure, not prototypes

Vercel launched a rebuilt v0 that imports GitHub repositories and generates production-ready code within sandboxed runtimes tied to Vercel’s infrastructure. The update enforces security controls, git …

The Vercel OSS Bug Bounty program is now available

Vercel has expanded its Open Source Software (OSS) bug bounty program to the public on HackerOne, inviting security researchers globally to identify vulnerabilities in its open source projects. This m…

Introducing the newv0

The most important change is that v0, an AI-powered coding tool, has evolved to support enterprise-grade production apps and agents, raising the bar for shipping software. This update, released in 202…

The new v0 release from Vercel evolves vibe coding from a novelty to a business-critical tool. Since its general availability in 2024, v0 has been used by over 4 million people to turn ideas into apps

Making agent-friendly pages with content negotiation

Vercel has updated its blog and changelog pages to serve markdown content to agents, while still delivering HTML and CSS to human readers, marking a significant shift in content delivery strategy. Thi…

Turbo build machines by default for new Pro projects

Vercel has made Turbo build machines the default for all new Pro projects and upgrades from Hobby to Pro, effective immediately. Turbo build machines, introduced in October 2025 for paid plans, now of…

AI Gateway and one-click deploys now available on TRAE

ByteDance's coding agent TRAE now integrates both Vercel AI Gateway and direct Vercel deployments, a move that significantly enhances its competitive offering for over 1.6 million developers. This dua…