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MCP Goes Stateless: What the July 28 Specification Changes

The Model Context Protocol specification shipping on July 28, 2026 removes the protocol-level session entirely. No initialize handshake. No session ID. Any request can hit any server instance. The release candidate locked on May 21, and the 10-week validation window closes when the final spec publishes. This is the largest revision of MCP since Anthropic...

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