News Cache (2026-02-16)

[amyegan]

February 7, 2026 - February 14, 2026

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Top Highlights

• Vercel Flags is now in public beta, offering a built-in feature flag provider with targeting rules, user segments, and environment controls directly in the Vercel Dashboard.
• Advanced egress firewall filtering for Vercel Sandbox now supports SNI filtering and CIDR blocks, allowing teams to control outbound TLS connections and reject unauthorized destinations before data transmission.
• New token formats with automatic secret scanning now protect accounts by automatically revoking Vercel API credentials accidentally committed to public GitHub repositories, gists, and npm packages.
• Vercel published a deep dive on building AEO (AI Engine Optimization) tracking for coding agents, exploring how businesses can understand and optimize how LLMs search for and summarize their web content.
• GLM-5 and MiniMax M2.5 are now available on AI Gateway enabling access to these and hundreds of other models with one centralized interface.

Community Projects

• An AI Agentic SaaS Template built on the Vercel ecosystem.
• Minimal Weather App
• Experiment: Can an Agent be a React Component?
• Relief Shredder - Shred Images and Feel Better.
• Cool ASCII animated hero section boilerplate

Don’t forget to visit the Showcase to see what else everyone is building

Weekly Leaderboard

Congrats to last week’s leaderboard champions

1. @marnix-3108
2. @heystu
3. @tulioportela

Resources

• Anyone can build agents, but it takes a platform to run them
• How we built AEO tracking for coding agents

Events

• Last Week

  • Open Source Stories S2E3 - Publicat
  • Frontend Forward: London Meetup 2026
  • Galentine’s Vibe Coding Night with v0
  • Community Session: Terminal Tricks for Agentic Workflows

• This Week

  • Open Source Stories S2E4 - Chatjs
  • Next.js London Meetup
  • Community Session: Building webvitals.com
  • Geodesic Developer Lab 2026 feat. Jeanne Grosser (Vercel COO)

• Next Week

  • Open Source Stories S2E5 - OmniLens

More Updates

• Introducing new token formats and secret scanning
• PostHog joins the Vercel Marketplace
• Agents can now access runtime logs with Vercel’s MCP server
• vercel logs CLI command now optimized for agents with historical log querying
• Support for Sign in with Apple
• Vercel Flags is now in public beta
• Advanced egress firewall filtering for Vercel Sandbox
• GLM-5 is live on AI Gateway
• New deployments with vulnerable versions of the third-party package next-mdx-remote are now blocked by default
• Use MiniMax M2.5 on AI Gateway
• Browserbase joins the Vercel Agent Marketplace
• Stale-if-error cache-control directive now supported for all responses

[marnix-3108 (MarnixB)]

Awesome updates again! And i loved the minimal weatherapp, so creative but simple at the same time

[heystu (Sean)]

Thanks again so much for such the kind words on the weather app.
Really appreciate it