Netlify has released several new features this year aimed at enhancing security, improving platform capabilities, and streamlining workflows for developers. These include private connectivity, a security scorecard, rate limiting, enhanced certificate chain validation, platform primitives, a new Next.js runtime, account usage insights, function metrics, visual editing through Stackbit integration, and AI-assisted deployment debugging. Looking ahead, Netlify plans to introduce new templates with built-in visual editing, a web application firewall with managed rulesets, improved extension workflows, and innovative ways of leveraging AI for content creation.