March 2026

An overview of product updates, improvements, and fixes released in March 2026.

What's New

Network Expansion

New PoP locations deployed across multiple regions to improve global performance and reduce latency:

• South America: São Paulo, Lima, Bogotá

• Oceania: Australia

• Pakistan: Rahim Yar Khan

• MENA: Iraq, Lebanon (GDS, Zina), Jordan (Umniah), Egypt (Etisalat), Iraq (Najaf)

Stook Object Storage Analytics enhancements:

• Detailed traffic, request, and content usage analysis

• Time-based trend tracking and traffic source visibility

• Unified monitoring for CDN, GPU, Security, and Storage via Medianova Control Panel.

Stook Advanced Permissions:

• Fine-grained access control (e.g., GetObject, PutObject, DeleteObject)

• Extended authorization capabilities beyond basic read/write

• Simplified credential management

Introduction of Large Streaming platform:

• Unified streaming and Large platform architecture

• Improved performance and stability

• Built-in failover support

• Advanced Origin Management for streaming:

  • Routing rules based on path, URI, or file extension

  • Dedicated backup origins

  • Automatic failover support

  • See: Advanced Origin Settings

Improvements

• Configuration deployment performance significantly improved:

  • End-to-end deployment time reduced from 5–7 minutes to ~1 minute (~85% faster)

  • Per-machine update time reduced from 4–6 minutes to ~20 seconds (~93% faster)

• Improved traffic routing efficiency across newly deployed PoPs, resulting in better delivery performance

Fixes

• No major fixes reported in this release

Upcoming Changes

• New WAF engine with integrated ML/AI capabilities

• Transition to a next-generation PostgreSQL-based Origin Shield infrastructure

• Gradual deprecation of the current live streaming architecture