Changelog

2025-07-02

Managed robots.txt will prepend existing files

Cloudflare will prepend our managed robots.txt before your existing robots.txt, combining both into a single response.

Anomaly detection events now receive a bot score of 2

Events detected by the anomaly detection engine are now given a bot score of 2.

Machine Learning model v9 is now the default model

Machine Learning model v9 is now the default model for all new zones and existing zones set to use the latest machine learning model.

Managed robots.txt is now available

Direct AI crawlers on what they can and cannot scrape from your website or application by implementing a robots.txt file to your domain.

Bot Detection Alerts are now available

You can now create a Bot Detection Alert to notify you when Cloudflare detects a spike in Bot traffic on your website.

AI bots is now a managed rule

AI bots protection has been upgraded from a custom rule to a managed rule.