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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP's protocol core is now stateless, so requests are no longer dependent on a session tied to an individual server instance. This change has the potential to address long-standing barriers to scalability.
The blog post announcing the specification, written by lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky (who both work at Anthropic), says: "The highlight of this release is a stateless protocol core -- MCP is transforming from a bidirectional stateful protocol into a request/response stateless protocol. It was one of the most highly-requested features from developers who were eager to get better reliability and scalability for their MCP servers."
[...] There is also a new deprecation policy that ensures at least 12 months between when a feature's formal deprecation is enacted and when the feature may actually be removed -- with a narrow exception for critical security updates. This is again in keeping with the general "let's make this work better at enterprise scale" theme of the new specification. This update is "MCP's most important since remote MCP first launched over a year ago," Soria Parra wrote. Other additions include "Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs."
A full list of changes can be found here.
The blog post announcing the specification, written by lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky (who both work at Anthropic), says: "The highlight of this release is a stateless protocol core -- MCP is transforming from a bidirectional stateful protocol into a request/response stateless protocol. It was one of the most highly-requested features from developers who were eager to get better reliability and scalability for their MCP servers."
[...] There is also a new deprecation policy that ensures at least 12 months between when a feature's formal deprecation is enacted and when the feature may actually be removed -- with a narrow exception for critical security updates. This is again in keeping with the general "let's make this work better at enterprise scale" theme of the new specification. This update is "MCP's most important since remote MCP first launched over a year ago," Soria Parra wrote. Other additions include "Multi Round-Trip Requests, header-based routing, cacheable list results, authorization hardening, a formal extensions framework, and updated Tier 1 SDKs."
A full list of changes can be found here.
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US president places military plan in doubt despite positive meetings with Voloymyr Zelenskyy in Washington this week. What we know on day 1,619
Donald Trump has cast doubt on allowing Ukraine to build Patriot missiles, saying in an interview he was “not sure” about the move. The US president told the Financial Times: “It’s a very extraordinary weapon, and we have to be a little bit careful of who we licence to.” Earlier this week, Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Trump at the White House where the Ukrainian president said he had discussed licensing arrangements to let Ukraine manufacture its own interceptors for Patriot missile systems. Officials from Patriot maker Raytheon Co have already been to Ukraine, and Lockheed Martin Corp, which builds the PAC-3 interceptors for the air defence system, was also working to send over a team of experts, Ukraine’s envoy to Washington, Olha Stefanishyna, said on Thursday. The FT also reported that Trump envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff would visit Ukraine for the first time in the coming days.
Donald Tusk has visited the scene of an explosion caused by a Russian missile 50 miles from Poland’s border with Ukraine. The Polish prime minister said: “From the analysis of most of the traces, the recovered fragments point to a Russian KH-101 missile”, but added that there was no reason to think that Poland had been the target. Tusk said the Polish military had been prepared to shoot it down if it threatened a built-up area. The missile explosion triggered Nato air defences, in the midst of a massive air raid that killed 13 people in Ukraine. Nato’s supreme allied commander for Europe, Gen Alexus Grynkewich, said: “Nato will continue to take all necessary measures to defend Nato territory.”
A drone factory in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian ballistic missile was owned by a US corporation, in what appears to be the first time Moscow has targeted a US company in the conflict. Friday’s strike hit Terminal Autonomy, a US corporation registered in Delaware that makes precision “deep-strike” drones with guidance systems that are resistant to Russian jamming signals, according to a person familiar with the company. Terminal Autonomy did not reply to an emailed request for comment. The Ukrainian defence ministry also did not respond to an email.
France’s interior minister has defended an expulsion order against pro-Kremlin Russian commentator Xenia Fedorova, saying it was “not an infringement on freedom of expression”. Minister Laurent Nunez told broadcaster BFMTV that Fedorova, a former head of the Kremlin-funded RT news network, “simply and purely relays Russian propaganda”. “We are dealing with a very serious matter, namely an attack on the fundamental interests of the nation,” he said. However, views similar to hers would continue to be given a platform in France, Nunez added. “I have no doubt whatsoever that the people who espouse theories like those promoted by this individual will continue to disseminate them,” he said, referring to some French politicians. France ordered Fedorova to leave the country after accusations she was relaying Kremlin propaganda on French television. Fedorova’s lawyer has said his client will file an appeal.
Continue reading...US president’s Board of Peace says Israel will withdraw from Gaza following disarmament of Hamas but no immediate statement from either side
Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas, calling it a critical step toward a new Palestinian government in Gaza. There was no immediate statement from Hamas or Israel on the agreement.
“This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people,” Trump said in a social media post.
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