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I launched a website! Check it out here: https://nlvcodes.com
Payload CMS 3.47–3.48 add better /me queries, findDistinct, and general polish.
Next.js 15.4.x ship a broad maintenance sweep and stability patches.
Ecosystem: Vercel launches BotID, Railway/Raycast tweak features, Tailwind stays idle.
And more!
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PayloadCMS
Versions 3.49 and 3.49.1 were released bringing support for soft delete, grouping documents, and scheduling jobs.
Version 3.50 was also released. This version adds hooks to the restoreVersion collection operation, trash support to the count operation, the ability to pass count:true to a join query using GraphQL, and an Indonesian translation. You don't need to do anything to opt into these features.
Featured Tutorial
Localization is a key feature of many content sites and web apps. Click the image below to see how you can set up localization using Payload CMS and Next.js. Watch here: https://youtu.be/wDMyxnnc5MQ
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On Figma’s side:
Figma celebrated their IPO on July 31.
Figma Make and AI features are no longer in beta
Dev Mode’s MCP server continues its beta development with streamable HTTP transport protocol
Several updates have been made to their design tools.
Next.js
Next.js continues to backport bug fixes for version 14.2 and version 15.4. While nothing groundbreaking was included in releases 14.2.31, 15.4.5, and 15.4.6, it’s nice to see newer fixes be added to older versions.
On Vercel’s side:
Vercel released a model control protocol (MCP) server.
Claude Opus 4.1 is supported in the Vercel AI Gateway. So, you can now develop tools using Vercel's AI SDK with your Anthropic API key.
In other news
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Cloudflare
Cloudflare delisted Perplexity as a verified bot. Check out my video on this for more information about what that means. Watch here: https://youtu.be/G3yXIo4hjIU
Railway
Railway, is now SOC 2 Type II compliant
Railway’s Functions are now supported in the Railway CLI.
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Raycast
Raycast has released Auto Transcript using Granola
Raycast continues to expand their AI offerings by allowing you to bring your own OpenAI compatible LLM provider.
You’re also able to let Raycast choose which AI model it thinks is best for the task as hand.
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