# Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/model-context-protocol-prepares-to-break-with-its-stateful-past/
- Published: 2026-07-23T16:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-23T23:08:01+00:00
- Original publisher: The Register
- Original article: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/23/model-context-protocol-prepares-to-break-with-its-stateful-past/5276722
- Topics: Software

## Key points

- MCP will become stateless to simplify enterprise scaling.
- Custom MCP implementations may require substantial reworking.
- The revision is scheduled for finalisation on 28 July.

## Summary

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for linking AI applications to external systems, is due for its largest overhaul since launch. Its maintainers plan to finalise a new revision on 28 July that removes protocol-level sessions and other features, aiming to make cloud deployment and scaling simpler but creating compatibility work for organisations with custom implementations.

The change reflects problems encountered as MCP moved from laptop-based demonstrations to multi-client enterprise services in the cloud. Under the new stateless design, each request carries version, client identity and capability information in its metadata, avoiding session tracking; MCP’s SDK had exceeded 97 million monthly downloads and at least 10,000 servers existed when Anthropic transferred the protocol to the Linux Foundation-backed AAIF in 2025.

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