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# News Cache (2025-09-15)

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Amy Egan (@amyegan) · 2025-09-15 · ♥ 4

### 🖤 Highlights

- [A more flexible Pro plan for modern teams](https://vercel.com/blog/new-pro-pricing-plan)
- [MongoDB Atlas is now available on the Vercel Marketplace](https://vercel.com/blog/mongodb-atlas-is-now-available-on-the-vercel-marketplace)
- [Next.js Conf](https://nextjs.org/conf) and [Ship AI](https://vercel.com/ship/ai) are happening October 22 and 23 in SF and online
- [Styles in v0](https://x.com/v0/status/1965185696236535846)

### ⭐ Community Projects

- @abhivarde is turning cryptic errors into plain English with [ErrExplain (Next.js + Vercel AI SDK + Appwrite)](https://community.vercel.com/t/introducing-errexplain-next-js-vercel-ai-sdk-appwrite/22037)
- @geromegrignon built a project to share insights about experimental gates for the community: [Introducing NextJS Can I Use, Get to know about experimental gates](https://community.vercel.com/t/introducing-nextjs-can-i-use-get-to-know-about-experimental-gates/22168)
- @rizbizkits is back exploring creative, and sometimes weird, things the web can do. Read more about it in her post: [V0, creatively](https://community.vercel.com/t/v0-creatively/22456)
- @slugy-url shared how they [transform long URLs into beautiful, trackable short links](https://community.vercel.com/t/transform-long-urls-into-beautiful-trackable-short-links-with-slugy/22192)
- @musabkozlic showed us their [app built fast with v0](https://community.vercel.com/t/v0-helped-me-build-my-app-fast-and-land-3-000-google-cloud-credits/22048)

Don’t forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building!

### 📚 Learn

- [Introducing Vercel Drains: Complete observability data, anywhere](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-vercel-drains)
- [Introducing `x402-mcp`: Open protocol payments for MCP tools](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-x402-mcp-open-protocol-payments-for-mcp-tools)
- [The second wave of MCP: Building for LLMs, not developers](https://vercel.com/blog/the-second-wave-of-mcp-building-for-llms-not-developers)
- [Critical npm supply chain attack response - September 8, 2025](https://vercel.com/blog/critical-npm-supply-chain-attack-response-september-8-2025)

### 📅 Events

- **Past**
    - [Open Source Stories: inbound](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-inbound/21729)
    - [Community Session: v0 Styles](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-v0-styles/21743)
    - [Community Session: AMA with Guillermo Rauch](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-ama-with-guillermo-rauch/20377)
    - [Open Source Stories: Nativewind](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-nativewind/22261)
- **Upcoming**
    - [date=2025-09-22 time=12:00:00 timezone="America/New_York"] [Open Source Stories: nuqs](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-nuqs/21730)
    - [date=2025-09-25 time=12:30:00 timezone="America/New_York"] [Community Session: Why I Built Databuddy](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-why-i-built-databuddy/20366)
    - [date=2025-09-25 time=16:00:00 timezone="Japan"] [Ai×要件定義の最前線:生成aiプラットフォームを活用した新しい開発実践](https://community.vercel.com/t/aix-ai/18774)
    - [date=2025-09-29 time=12:00:00 timezone="America/New_York"] [Open Source Stories: 8bitcn](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-8bitcn/21731)
    - [date=2025-10-06 time=12:00:00 timezone="America/New_York"] [Open Source Stories: Resume Matcher](https://community.vercel.com/t/open-source-stories-resume-matcher/21732)
    - [date=2025-10-08 time=8:30:00 timezone="America/New_York"] [Community Session: Observability](https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-observability/21681)

### ▲ More Updates

- **AI**
    - [Qwen3-Next models are now supported in Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/qwen3-next-models-are-now-supported-in-vercel-ai-gateway)
    - [`402-mcp` enables x402 payments in MCP](https://vercel.com/changelog/402-mcp-enables-x402-payments-in-mcp)
    - [LongCat Flash Chat model is now supported in Vercel AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/changelog/longcat-flash-chat-model-is-now-supported-in-vercel-ai-gateway)
    - [ChatGPT can now integrate with Vercel MCP](https://vercel.com/changelog/chatgpt-is-now-supported-on-vercel-mcp)
    - [AI SDK and AI Gateway now integrated in GitHub Actions](https://vercel.com/changelog/ai-sdk-and-ai-gateway-now-integrated-in-github-actions)
- [**Updated Pro Plan**](https://community.vercel.com/t/updated-pro-plan/18608)
    - [Included Pro usage is now credit-based](https://vercel.com/changelog/included-pro-usage-is-now-credit-based)
    - [HIPAA BAAs are now available to Pro teams](https://vercel.com/changelog/hipaa-baas-are-now-available-to-pro-teams)
    - [Spend Management now enabled by default on Pro](https://vercel.com/changelog/spend-management-now-enabled-by-default-on-pro)
    - [No build queues: On-demand concurrent builds now on by default](https://vercel.com/changelog/no-build-queues-on-demand-concurrent-builds-now-on-by-default)
    - [Free Viewer seats now available on Pro](https://vercel.com/changelog/free-viewer-seats-now-available-on-pro)
- **Deployments**
    - [Updated defaults for deployment retention](https://vercel.com/changelog/updated-defaults-for-deployment-retention)
    - [Vercel Sandbox maximum duration extended to 5 hours](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-sandbox-maximum-duration-extended-to-5-hours)
    - [Vercel Functions now support graceful shutdown](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-functions-now-support-graceful-shutdown)
    - [Bulk enable on-demand concurrent builds across projects](https://vercel.com/changelog/bulk-enable-on-demand-concurrent-builds-across-projects)
- [MongoDB Atlas joins the Vercel Marketplace](https://vercel.com/changelog/mongodb-atlas-joins-the-vercel-marketplace)
- [New Vercel CLI login flow](https://vercel.com/changelog/new-vercel-cli-login-flow)

### ℹ️ ICYMI

- [We’re growing our Community team!](https://community.vercel.com/t/were-growing-our-community-team/22115)
- September [Hire Me](https://community.vercel.com/t/hire-me-september-2025/21371) and [Who’s Hiring?](https://community.vercel.com/t/whos-hiring-september-2025/21372) posts


Abhivarde (@abhivarde) · 2025-09-16 · ♥ 4

This really put a smile on my face 🖤  
Big thanks for including ErrExplain, @amyegan ma'am 🙏


Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2025-09-16 · ♥ 3

This was my favourite Community Session of all time!

https://community.vercel.com/t/community-session-ama-with-guillermo-rauch/20377?u=pawlean


emmanuel (@emperez) · 2025-09-18 · ♥ 3

Atlas being available on the Vercel marketplace now is big! I was at their conference yesterday and talked to a lot of folks who were just as excited. 

https://x.com/emperez0/status/1968460529820717064