Today we’re excited to publish an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering the next specification release and beyond. It sets the direction for protocol work over the coming months and was developed by the Core Maintainers together with our community of maintainers and Working Groups. Explore the roadmap → Looking back The previously published roadmap came out in March with four priority areas: transport evolution and scalability , agent communication , governance maturation , and enterprise readiness . We’ve made significant progress in all of these over the past five months. The bulk of the changes landed in the 2026-07-28 specification release - you might’ve already seen them in our SDKs and documentation. The improvements ranged from minor modifications to major protocol overhauls. One of the biggest changes we shipped is that protocol-level sessions and the initialization handshake are gone, so a server can scale horizontally without holding state ( SEP-2575 , SEP-2567 ).…