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TURBOREPO SHIPS DURABLE FACTORY WORKSPACES

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Anthony Shew laugharn Marcos Hernanz Colton Padden next-js-bot[bot]
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Anthony Shew just turned Turborepo's Factory from throwaway browser chats into persistent, shareable workspaces, and he fixed the network policy twice to get there.

Turborepo's Factory tooling gets a major upgrade with durable workspaces backed by private Blob records and named Vercel Sandboxes, replacing ad hoc browser chats and dropping Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode paths in favor of pinned `fx v0.0.5` [1]. You can now resume the exact same session from browser terminals or local SSH with `fx resume --id`, and the workspace dashboard becomes a full-screen xterm session connected directly to the sandbox interactive WebSocket [2]. The rollout hit production friction, first with the Factory create endpoint rejecting the custom open network policy, patched with a fail-closed `deny-all` default [3], then with the named-sandbox update endpoint rejecting the typed `{ allow, subnets }` schema, fixed by applying credentials through the running session's network-policy endpoint [4]. Shew notes production logs showed the Sandbox create endpoint "rejecting the custom o" [3], a snippet that hints at how tight the fail-closed loop had to be. Downstream, Vercel's shop template upgrades next to 16.3.2 and adopts AI SDK 7.0.76 with three Hydrogen primitive refactors [5][6], while eve removes the "under construction" banner from its evaluations page, signaling benchmark results are live [7]. Next.js also ships canary 16.4.0-canary.3 fixing devtools indicator dragging on touch screens [8].

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References

  1. [1] feat: Add durable Factory workspaces (#13804) ↗ vercel/turborepo
  2. [2] feat: Stream Factory sandbox as terminal ↗ vercel/turborepo
  3. [3] fix: Restore Factory workspace creation (#13812) ↗ vercel/turborepo
  4. [4] fix: Update Factory session network policy (#13814) ↗ vercel/turborepo
  5. [5] Upgrade template dependencies ↗ vercel/shop
  6. [6] Adopt Hydrogen storefront primitives ↗ vercel/shop
  7. [7] docs: remove evals construction banner ↗ vercel/eve
  8. [8] [devtools] Fix indicator dragging on touch screens (#97723) vercel/next.js ↗

$ ls vercel/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Turborepo adds Go workspace graph, fixes hashing the month in review Workflow 4.8 overhauls delivery and sessions, Eve compacts traces, Turbopack cache defaults on
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Quick answers

What shipped in Vercel on August 24, 2026?
Anthony Shew just turned Turborepo's Factory from throwaway browser chats into persistent, shareable workspaces, and he fixed the network policy twice to get there. In total, 16 commits, 15 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Vercel on August 24, 2026?
5 developers shipped this update, including Marcos Hernanz, next-js-bot[bot], Anthony Shew, Colton Padden, and laugharn.
What were the notable Vercel updates?
feat: Add durable Factory workspaces (#13804), feat: Stream Factory sandbox as terminal, and fix: Restore Factory workspace creation (#13812).
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$ log @vercel --recent

Turbopack GC gets a config key and the runtime sheds peer state 172 shipped xAI drops Chat Completions, eve breaks registry installs, Turbopack widens tree-shaking 155 shipped Next.js fixes cache warming env bug, eve gains audience hooks 167 shipped Turborepo patches Remix and Nuxt env hashing, shop ships Eve agent 10 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Agent Security Quiet day in agent security as guard coverage reaches four clients Alignment & Post-training verl defaults Ascend RL mode, open-instruct unblocks SFT packing

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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