Vercel Staff
October 16, 2026 - October 23, 2026
Top Highlights
- WebSocket Support Goes GA — Vercel Functions now officially supports WebSockets in general availability, enabling real-time bidirectional communication for production applications at scale.
- Deploy Without an Account — The Vercel CLI now lets developers deploy and share live prototypes instantly without signing up, streamlining the path from code to shareable URL for quick demos and testing.
- Python Routing Middleware — FastAPI, Flask, and Django applications can use routing middleware on Vercel, with the ability to intercept, rewrite, redirect, or respond to requests before they reach the main application.
Community Projects
- CreativeCape — Production-Ready Next.js Templates, SaaS Starters & AI Solutions
- Personal Website
- NextBlock CMS: Auditing 459 surfaces & hardening Next.js 16 + Supabase RLS in 72 hours
- robots.txt reference
- Template: DemoShop Nuvi – a luxury e-commerce template on Next.js 16
Don't forget to visit the #showcase to see what else everyone is building
Weekly Leaderboard
Congrats to last week's leaderboard champions
Resources
- Vercel and Shopify make agents first-class shoppers
- Improving navigation experience in v0 with Next.js 16.4 (Next.js)
- Making every harness durable
- Death to long-lived static credentials
- How Interfaze serves 50 million requests a month on Vercel
- How Vercel Agent accesses production safely
Events
- This Week
- Next Week
You can always find the latest Vercel events on the community calendar
More Updates
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available in Token Pass
- WebSocket support is now generally available
- Baseten's Mammoth-1 and Elephant-1 now available on AI Gateway for free
- Skipped monorepo deployments no longer count against limits
- Routing Middleware now supports Python
- Deploy without an account using Vercel CLI
- Eight more TLDs now eligible for a free domain with Pro
- Kimi K3.1 Pro and Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed are available now in AI Gateway
- Send feedback from the Vercel CLI
- Vercel Connect adds managed Stripe API keys
- Deployments now show build cache size
- Send feedback from the Vercel MCP
- Vercel CLI adds Spend Management