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MCP's next release candidate drops sessions and the handshake, pushes state into handles

The next Model Context Protocol release candidate removes sessions and the initialization handshake and shifts state into handles, moving remote MCP servers toward a stateless HTTP shape. Lead maintainers froze the release ahead of the rewrite, and it invalidates assumptions many existing server implementations were built on.

Jul 27, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

GitHub's MCP Server tracks the stateless MCP spec, and the Redis session drops out

Ahead of a 28 July 2026 move to a stateless MCP core, GitHub says its MCP Server has been updated to run without per-session Redis state. For teams wiring coding agents into CI, that changes what the server has to remember between calls.

Jul 24, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo