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Agents2026-08-11 · source-backed
Released early August 11, the implicit default model becomes gpt-5.6-luna, and local MCP support now spans Python SDK v1 and v2 across stdio, SSE, and Streamable HTTP. If you have custom MCP HTTP auth or client factories, you match the installed MCP major version's HTTP types or pin mcp<2. Also adds RunState.add_input() for staging durable user input before a resumed model call, plus sandbox hardening including explicit credential-exposure acknowledgements on mounts.
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If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
upstash/context7 (60,590 stars) shipped @upstash/[redacted] on August 7 on the 2026-07-28 protocol revision. HTTP serving is now stateless for both modern and legacy clients, and Redis-backed sessions are gone, which is a real operational simplification for anyone self-hosting...
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol spec published today, and it removes two things every MCP server currently depends on: the initialize/initialized handshake and the Mcp-Session-Id header. Both are gone. Not deprecated. Gone from the core. (Model Context Protocol Blog) Wha...
If you run a production MCP server, you have a hard deadline. The 2026-07-28 spec removes the protocol-level session model entirely, and it's a breaking change. The MCP release candidate makes every request carry its own protocol version, client info, and capabilities (Model C...
Before v4.1.15 on August 23, it only applied to tools also opted in individually, so flipping it appeared to do nothing. Anyone who left it on assuming it was inert has just widened their unattended tool surface across every connected server. (GitHub) Same release train fixed...
Three separate Anthropic changes over about two weeks point the same direction, and none of them announced themselves as a strategy. Claude Code 2.1.238 added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min, which keeps serving attached sessions on SIGTERM, parks whatever's...
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