---
title: "Cloudflare Workers requests and connections get a longer grace period during runtime updates: 2026-10-12 | Harbyn"
description: "Cloudflare Workers requests and connections get a longer grace period during runtime updates, announced Oct 12, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/cloudflare/2026-10-12-workers-more-time-for-requests-to-finish-during-workers-runtime-updates"
last-updated: 2026-10-12
---

# Cloudflare Workers requests and connections get a longer grace period during runtime updates

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/cloudflare/2026-10-12-workers-more-time-for-requests-to-finish-during-workers-runtime-updates>.

Behavior change - Cloudflare. low severity. In effect.

During Workers runtime updates, pending requests and connections can continue for up to 20 minutes, increased from 30 seconds. At the end of the grace period, unfinished requests and open connections are terminated.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Cloudflare](https://harbyn.com/vendors/cloudflare.md) |
| Kind | Behavior change |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Vendor page | <https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-12-longer-runtime-update-grace-period/> |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Cloudflare, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/rss/workers.xml> (changelog, fetched 2026-10-12 21:19 UTC, sha256 `17c3396853c9c73f1afc4164170912b8acfff6b35d732756031ae1f6f73ef912`)

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