Releasesby GlyphNotifications, Conductor Queue
This week is all about staying ahead of issues: Notifications graduate from Priority Boarding to General Availability, giving everyone a real-time view of what’s happening across projects and environments. There’s also a new way for our community Conductors to triage questions faster.
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Dataflow now supports speculative execution for batch pipelines
Dataflow now supports speculative execution for batch pipelines. This feature mitigates the impact of slow-running tasks ( stragglers ) by launching a redundant execution of these tasks. The first task to finish is used, and the other is canceled, which can improve the overall completion time of your pipeline. This feature is generally available.
What's new in Sigma
Admin Add a key file for Snowflake key pair connections When configuring a Snowflake connection, you can add a PKCS#8-formatted key file ( .p8 ) instead of pasting your private key when setting up key pair authentication for the connection or an OAuth service account. For more details, see Connect to Snowflake .
Containers - New CPU Pricing for Containers and Sandboxes
Containers and Sandboxes pricing for CPU time is now based on active usage only, instead of provisioned resources. This means that you now pay less for Containers and Sandboxes. An Example Before and After Imagine running the standard-2 instance type for one hour, which can use up to 1 vCPU, but on average you use only 20% of your CPU capacity.
Projects deployed using a zip file via API now support branch deploys
When you deploy a project using a ZIP file and the Netlify API, you can now also create branch deploys using the new branch parameter. While it was always possible to pass a branch parameter to the https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/sites/{site_id}/builds endpoint, it previously had no effect for deploys made programmatically using the API.
Faro Web SDK v2.0 is now GA
This major release brings new updates to User Actions for GA, introduces improvements to Web Vitals, simplifies configuration, cleans up deprecated internals, and adds experimental navigation instrumentation for soft navigations. Highlights: User Actions are now GA Additional configuration to manage action state Added an importance attribute (e.g.
Custom environments for EAS Environment Variables
EAS Environment variables now support custom environments on top of the default development, preview, production. Available for production and Enterprise plans.
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Buckets, AI Magic Config, Restricted Environments, and more
Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating! 🦃 We've got something to be thankful for , Buckets are now generally available! No more reaching for third-party storage solutions; Railway's got you covered.
Better Webhooks, Better Service Settings, Office Hours
Between year-end shipping sprints and Black Friday load tests, it’s peak alert fatigue season. This week we’re shipping better webhooks so you only get pinged when it matters, smarter service settings that catch misconfigurations before they bite you, and [open office hours](https://cal.com/team/railway/railway-office-hours) with the Railway team for folks...
Smart Canvas, Magic Config IV
December is here and so is our final stretch of shipping before the holidays. While everyone else is debating whether it's too early to play Christmas music (it's not), we've been heads-down making Railway smarter about telling you what's actually going on with your services. This week is all about visibility.
Notifications, Buckets in Templates, Better RBAC
It’s November, and while your inbox is starting to be quieter, the Railway dashboard just got a lot more helpful. This week we're bringing dashboard notifications to Priority Boarding so the important stuff finds you right where you're working , no more tab-hopping to figure out what's happening with your deploys.
Audit Logs, Better Local Dev, Canvas Improvements
This week we're shipping features on both ends of the spectrum: one that helps you see everything that's happening across your workspace, and another that brings Railway into your local development workflow.
Enterprise SSO, More Magic Config, Metal Builders
Happy Halloween! 🎃 While everyone else is dressing up in costumes and pretending to be something they're not, we're helping your team members prove they are *exactly* who they say they are , with enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO).
New Landing Page, railway dev TUI, High Availability Postgres Template, Template Metrics
It's the last changelog of 2025! The Railway team is heading off on a well-deserved winter break, and we'll be back early next year with our regularly scheduled programming. Before we sign off, we've got one more round of updates to share.
Magic Config, HTTP Metrics, Secure DB queries
Last week, one of our newest additions was repo-aware settings, giving you autocomplete for your Railway config paths. This week? We're doubling down on the zero-config magic. Railway now automatically detects the environment variables your code needs and surfaces them right when you're configuring your service.