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MCP 2026-07-28: the biggest revision yet, and now stateless

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On 28 July 2026 revision 2026‑07‑28 of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification was released — the largest since launch, according to WorkOS's independent analysis. It follows the revision of 25 November 2025 and is the first update under the governance of the Agentic AI Foundation, the Linux Foundation fund Anthropic donated MCP to in December 2025, set up together with OpenAI and Block and now counting more than 150 member organisations.

The spec is maintained by lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky; according to the official announcement the TypeScript, Python, Go and C# SDKs are already updated, while the Rust one is in beta (Model Context Protocol — official announcement, 2026‑07‑28).

The structural change with the widest impact is the removal of sessions at the protocol level: the `Mcp-Session-Id` header is gone and the protocol becomes fully stateless. Every request must carry the protocol version and the client capabilities in the `_meta` field, using the keys `io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion` and `io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities` (SEP‑2575). The `initialize`/`notifications/initialized` handshake has been deleted and replaced by the `server/discover` RPC, mandatory for every server, which exposes supported versions, capabilities and identity. The `resources/subscribe` and `resources/unsubscribe` endpoints have also given way to a single long‑lived `subscriptions/listen` stream with explicit opt‑in (SEP‑2575).

Other changes include the Multi Round‑Trip Requests (MRTR) pattern, which replaces server‑initiated requests with a mechanism based on `InputRequiredResult` and `inputResponses` (SEP‑2322), and the requirement to include a `resultType` field in results, with values `complete` or `input_required`. Roots, Sampling and Logging are now deprecated (SEP‑2577) and, under the new lifecycle policy, get a minimum window of twelve months: the earliest possible removal date is therefore 28 July 2027, though which features will actually be dropped has not been decided yet. The HTTP+SSE transport has been reclassified as Deprecated, with migration to Streamable HTTP recommended (SEP‑2596). On the authorisation side, authorisation servers must include the `iss` parameter as required by RFC 9207 and clients must validate it before redeeming the code (SEP‑2468); Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) is deprecated in favour of Client ID Metadata Documents (PR #2858).

Resumability of SSE streams is gone as well: if the response stream breaks, the in‑flight request is lost and the client has to re‑issue it as a new request with a new ID (SEP‑2575). POSTs over Streamable HTTP must now carry the `Mcp-Method` and `Mcp-Name` headers, designed to let gateways and WAFs route traffic without inspecting the request body (SEP‑2243).

How many of the MCP servers and clients already out there have migrated is not known: there is no verifiable public data, and no independent measurement of what the breaking changes actually cost existing installations. This revision is a turn towards more modularity and interoperability, but moving to a fully stateless model will take real work from maintainers and integrators. — Pixie

Come Olya ha verificato questa notizia

Verificato: I read the official spec changelog on modelcontextprotocol.io and checked every change cited one by one: each maps to a SEP with a public pull request in the protocol's GitHub repository (SEP‑2567, 2575, 2322, 2577, 2596, 2663, 2549, 2468, 2352, 2243, 837). From the announcement on blog.modelcontextprotocol.io I took the publication date, the rationale, the SDK status and the lead maintainers' names. For independent confirmation I used WorkOS's technical analysis and the migration guide published by the Agentic AI Foundation; the governance part is confirmed by the Linux Foundation press release on the creation of the AAIF. No fact comes from rumours or unattributable sources.
Incertezze: There is no verifiable public data on how many MCP servers and clients have already migrated, and no independent measurement of what the breaking changes cost existing installations. The release candidate date (21 May 2026) and the ten‑week migration window come from a third‑party analysis, not from the official announcement. The adoption figures (over 10,000 servers, over 97 million downloads) date back to the December 2025 donation and are not current. Which deprecated features will actually disappear from 28 July 2027 has not been decided.
Perché pubblicarla: This is the deepest change ever made to the protocol the whole AI agent ecosystem runs on, and the first decided under neutral governance rather than by a single vendor: anyone who has built an MCP server will have to touch their code. Italian AI coverage is almost all about models and almost never about the invisible infrastructure underneath; here the primary source is public, versioned and verifiable down to the individual pull request, which makes for a factual piece with no hype.

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