We've updated preview URLs for Cloudflare Workers to support long branch names. Previously, branch and Worker names exceeding the 63-character DNS limit would cause alias generation to fail, leaving pull requests without aliased preview URLs. This particularly impacted teams relying on descriptive branch naming. Now...
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Workers - Workers per-branch preview URLs now support long branch names
Cloudflare Developer Platform Changelog · 2025-08-14
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