--- title: "News: MCP, registries, hosts and gateways | Agent MCP Directory" description: "17 dated items from primary sources on MCP, registries, hosts and gateways, 22 August 2026 to 3 November 2026. Each links to its source." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-04 date: 2026-11-03 section: "News" --- # News: MCP, registries, hosts and gateways | Agent MCP Directory > 17 dated items from primary sources on MCP, registries, hosts and gateways, 22 August 2026 to 3 November 2026. Each links to its source. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # News 17 dated items from the last three months, taken from primary sources: specification releases, registry and host changelogs, and vendor posts. Each one names what changed, links its source and shows where it touches a host, a registry or a guide on this site. | Date | Item | What changed | | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-11-03 | New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication | Cloudflare now requires authentication on newly created AI Gateways, closing open gateways by default. | | 2026-11-02 | Vercel MCP accepts Client ID Metadata Documents | Any MCP client can now connect to Vercel MCP without prior review by publishing a Client ID Metadata Document and using its HTTPS URL as the OAuth client_id. | | 2026-11-02 | Vercel MCP renders deployments as an interactive card | Vercel MCP now returns deployment status and build logs as an MCP Apps card in clients such as ChatGPT. | | 2026-10-31 | Smithery shuts down MCP Proxy and managed identity | The smithery.ai home page states that the MCP Proxy and managed identity features shut down on 31 October; Smithery joined Arcade in August. | | 2026-10-30 | Official Ruby SDK for MCP reaches Tier 1 | The MCP project moved the official Ruby SDK to Tier 1 under its SDK tiering system, three months after its 1.0 release. | | 2026-10-22 | Cloudflare MCP servers stop serving /sse | Cloudflare product MCP servers now serve only /mcp. | | 2026-10-22 | GitHub counts MCP servers in Copilot usage metrics | GitHub added custom skills, agents and MCP servers to the Copilot usage metrics API, so organisations can see which MCP servers their developers use. | | 2026-10-19 | Cloudflare API MCP server adds step-up authorization | The Cloudflare API MCP server now asks for additional scopes when an operation needs them, the step-up flow described in the MCP authorization spec. | | 2026-10-19 | Ora launches AgentReady.org with an act-layer MUST | Ora published AgentReady.org, an MIT-licensed standard whose act layer requires "an MCP server or a CLI, at least one". | | 2026-10-01 | Workers OAuth Provider reaches v1 | Cloudflare's OAuth library for MCP split into an authorization server Worker and resource server Workers that check tokens over a Service Binding. | | 2026-09-30 | Arcade rescans 90,000 MCP servers | Arcade's ToolBench rescan graded more than 90,000 open-source MCP servers and 630,000 tools: 260 servers (0.28 percent) earned an A, 5.8 percent handle requests statelessly, and nearly 17,000 ship a destructive tool while only 14 percent declare safety annotations. | | 2026-09-28 | Cloudflare Browser Run moves WebMCP to document.modelContext | Cloudflare added WebMCP to its Kitesurf agent browser and switched to the document.modelContext API name used in the current WebMCP draft. | | 2026-09-24 | Cloudflare MCP server portals reach general availability | Portals give one endpoint for approved MCP servers with Access logging of tool, prompt and resource activity. | | 2026-09-22 | Cloudflare portals add private MCP server support | MCP server portals can now front private MCP servers, not only public remote ones, ahead of general availability two days later. | | 2026-08-27 | A2A joins the Agentic AI Foundation | The A2A project was accepted as a Growth Stage project at the Linux Foundation-directed Agentic AI Foundation, next to MCP, goose and AGENTS.md. | | 2026-08-25 | Cloudflare MCP server portals support MCP 2026-07-28 | Cloudflare updated MCP server portals to accept clients on the stateless 2026-07-28 revision, a month after the spec shipped, while still serving earlier Streamable HTTP clients. | | 2026-08-22 | MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap | The roadmap names five priority areas: agentic messaging primitives, Streamable HTTP for local servers, agent identity and enterprise security (DPoP, workload identity), improved primitives including progressive tool discovery, and SDK developer experience. | The feed is at [feed.xml](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/feed.xml). Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/news/index.md) ## Sources - [New Cloudflare AI Gateways require authentication](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-11-03-required-authentication/), read 4 November 2026 - [Vercel MCP accepts Client ID Metadata Documents](https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-mcp-now-supports-client-id-metadata-documents), read 4 November 2026 - [Vercel MCP renders deployments as an interactive card](https://vercel.com/changelog/monitor-vercel-deployments-in-chatgpt), read 4 November 2026 - [Smithery shuts down MCP Proxy and managed identity](https://smithery.ai/), read 4 November 2026 - [Official Ruby SDK for MCP reaches Tier 1](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/ruby-sdk-tier-1/), read 4 November 2026 - [Cloudflare MCP servers stop serving /sse](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-22-cloudflare-mcp-servers-retire-sse/), read 4 November 2026 - [GitHub counts MCP servers in Copilot usage metrics](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-22-custom-skills-agents-and-mcp-servers-in-usage-metrics-api), read 4 November 2026 - [Cloudflare API MCP server adds step-up authorization](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-19-cloudflare-mcp-step-up/), read 4 November 2026 - [Ora launches AgentReady.org with an act-layer MUST](https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch?view=full&utm_source=agentmcpdirectory.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=index), read 4 November 2026 - [Workers OAuth Provider reaches v1](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-01-workers-oauth-provider-1x/), read 4 November 2026 - [Arcade rescans 90,000 MCP servers](https://www.arcade.dev/blog/toolbench-rescan-90000-mcp-servers), read 4 November 2026 - [Cloudflare Browser Run moves WebMCP to document.modelContext](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-09-28-webmcp-api/), read 4 November 2026 - [Cloudflare MCP server portals reach general availability](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-09-24-mcp-portals-ga/), read 4 November 2026 - [Cloudflare portals add private MCP server support](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-09-22-private-mcp-servers/), read 4 November 2026 - [A2A joins the Agentic AI Foundation](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/blog/2026/08/27/a-new-chapter-for-a2a-joining-the-agentic-ai-foundation/), read 4 November 2026 - [Cloudflare MCP server portals support MCP 2026-07-28](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-08-25-mcp-portals-mcp-2026-07-28/), read 4 November 2026 - [MCP maintainers publish the new roadmap](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/), read 4 November 2026 Last reviewed 4 November 2026