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Severity
High
Published
9 days agoApr 17, 2026
Signal
53

Deployment retention policies now preserve active branch deployments

Retention policies no longer delete the latest preview deployment for branches with open or unmerged pull requests. Previously, deployments for active branches could be removed if they exceeded the configured retention window. This means y…

Official source entry

Deployment retention policies now preserve active branch deployments

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

Why it matters

Vercel updated vercel changelog semantics for hosting and deployments. Review the official entry during the next release review.

Who should care

  • frontend
  • backend
  • infra

Affected stack

  • hosting
  • deployments
  • frontend-infra
  • ci-cd

Categories

infraapi