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Severity
Critical
Published
5 days agoApr 21, 2026
Signal
70

Workers - WebSocket binary messages now delivered as Blob by default

Binary frames received on a WebSocket are now delivered to the message event as Blob objects by default. This matches the WebSocket specification and standard browser behavior. Previously, binary frames were always delivered as ArrayBuffer…

Official source entry

Workers - WebSocket binary messages now delivered as Blob by default

From Cloudflare Changelog. The simplified record can be checked against the original wording.

Why it matters

Cloudflare updated cloudflare changelog semantics for edge-compute and hosting. Review the official entry before the next deploy.

Who should care

  • frontend
  • infra
  • product

Affected stack

  • edge-compute
  • hosting
  • networking
  • deployments

Categories

breakinginfra