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Liveblocks adds Storage history, Clerk expands its CLI, and Knock exports message events
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- Hashim Warren
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Coverage: July 6–12, 2026.
Launch of the Week
Liveblocks, a provider of real-time collaboration APIs, extended version history to Storage, adding snapshots, historical data access, and restoration as one undoable change. Recoverability could make collaborative applications easier to trust, giving developers comparing broader realtime services such as Ably another built-in feature to weigh.
Company Launch
BORME API, a Spanish company-registry data API, introduced an English-language feed of incorporations, officer changes, insolvencies, and other published company events through a REST API and webhooks. It gives developers adding company search or monitoring to their products a Spain-focused option alongside OpenCorporates.
Enterprise Watch
Clerk, an authentication and user management platform, made SAML just-in-time provisioning configurable, allowing a connection to reject sign-ins from people who do not already have accounts. Separating authentication from account creation could help applications meet centrally managed provisioning policies, a familiar enterprise buying concern when comparing WorkOS.
GTM Trends
WorkOS, an enterprise authentication platform, released an AuthKit SDK for Astro that configures authentication routes, middleware, and request-level session handling. Framework-specific packaging reduces setup friction and creates another entry point for developers evaluating Clerk, without requiring a new identity category.
More Devtool News
- ✨ Clerk, an authentication and user management platform, released CLI 2.0 with local webhook tools and user impersonation. Audited, short-lived sign-in links can help reproduce account-specific issues, while teams must still control who may impersonate users when evaluating alternatives such as WorkOS.
- ✨ Knock, a notification API, added message-event exports to its warehouse sync, covering delivery and engagement across workflows, broadcasts, and guides. Joining these records with product analytics could reduce custom data plumbing, but the feature requires Enterprise access and support activation; Novu is a comparison for notification infrastructure.
- ✨ Knock, a notification API, introduced schema management for dashboard properties, descriptions, previews, and version-controlled configuration. Curated fields could help messaging teams and agents work with clearer context, but hiding a property does not remove it from API responses or enforce data access; Courier is an alternative.