News Cache (2026-03-09)

[amyegan]

February 27, 2026 - March 6, 2026

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Top Highlights

• Vercel’s CDN now supports updating routing rules without redeployment, allowing teams to modify response headers and rewrites on the fly through a new dedicated dashboard experience that centralizes traffic monitoring and configuration management.
• Vercel Workflow performance doubled with a 54% median speed improvement, making the orchestration platform significantly faster for complex automation tasks and agent-driven workflows.
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) Apps and custom MCP servers are now fully supported on Vercel, with the v0 API enabling teams to connect custom servers programmatically and deploy complete MCP applications with Next.js.
• Stripe integration reaches general availability on Vercel Marketplace and v0, enabling production payment acceptance with secure API key provisioning, accompanied by a comprehensive guide for building secure checkout experiences in minutes.

Community Projects

• artjournal.ing - wins and fails so far
• Sharing a project I built with Next.js 16 (App Router) and deployed on Vercel.
• Just shipped skill on skills.sh on top of our new agent-friendly CLI (built on agent-browser)
• https://www.kanishakapranjal.com
• Finally gave my personal site—1chooo.com a massive upgrade.

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

Weekly Leaderboard

Congrats to last week’s leaderboard champions

1. @chiayusu
2. @anhnguyentuan2-5616
3. @lucasmmonnerat

Resources

• How Avalara turns pipe dreams into patent-pending with v0
• How Waldium made a blog platform work for humans and AI alike
• Scaling redirects to infinity on Vercel
• Building Slack agents can be easy
• From idea to secure checkout in minutes with Stripe

Events

• Last week
  • Community Session: How Earmark Turns Conversations into Execution
• This week
  • Community Session: Building Faster with AI-Native Development
  • Community Session: Svelte on Vercel
• Next week
  • v0 SXSW workshop
  • Community Session: Sandbox AMA

More Updates

• Vercel CLI for Marketplace integrations optimized for agents
• Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite is now on AI Gateway
• GPT 5.3 Chat is now on AI Gateway
• Vercel Workflow is now twice as fast
• Vercel Sandbox now accepts environment variables at creation
• MCP Apps support on Vercel
• GPT 5.4 is now on AI Gateway
• Create private blob stores with a single click in v0
• Stripe is now generally available on the Marketplace and v0
• Run cron jobs from deployment summary
• Streamdown 2.4: More customization, accessibility and custom rendering
• Vercel’s CDN now supports updating routing rules without a new deployment
• Vercel’s CDN gets a new dashboard experience
• Deployment step now 15% faster
• Skip unaffected builds for projects in Bun monorepos
• v0 API now supports custom MCP servers
• Chat SDK adds table rendering and streaming markdown

[jayarbrul01-8727 (Jayarbrul)]

Thank you for your sharing.
May I ask some questions?

1. How does Vercel’s support for MCP Apps and custom MCP servers enable more dynamic deployments, and what benefits does the v0 API bring to teams working with Next.js?
2. Could you share more details on how custom MCP servers are connected programmatically to Vercel, and how teams can leverage this for optimized performance?
3. What is the process for integrating Stripe with Vercel Marketplace, and how does the secure API key provisioning contribute to a more secure payment experience?
4. Can you provide any case studies or examples of how Stripe’s integration with Vercel has improved payment acceptance and checkout experiences for businesses?