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MCP Protocol Redesigned as Stateless to Unlock Enterprise Adoption

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3 versions, newest first.

  1. Version 3 2026-08-02 02:24 UTC · 45 items

    Simon Willison has shifted from documenting MCP integration with friction notes to active advocacy, releasing three MCP tools (datasette-mcp, mcp-explorer, llm-mcp-client) and making a principled security argument that …

  2. Version 2 2026-07-31 18:27 UTC · 37 items

    Microsoft's Azure App Service team published scaling guidance for MCP under the new stateless spec [^42382], adding the first major cloud provider voice to the thread and reinforcing the production-readiness narrative. …

  3. Version 1 2026-07-30 18:10 UTC · 28 items

    The 2026-07-28 MCP specification release candidate, authored by Anthropic engineers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky, redesigns the protocol's transport layer to be stateless — removing the per-session, per-server-i…