Releasesby GlyphRailway plugin for Grok Bot, MySQL High Availability, favorite projects
The best infrastructure keeps the important work moving without constantly asking for your attention. This week, the Railway plugin lands in [Grok Bot](https://x.ai/bot), giving bots an authenticated way to deploy, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Railway infrastructure.
Also shipped Aug 28, 2026Railway in August 2026 →
Monitor and cap external provider costs
Unity Gateway can now track and cap spend on external model providers, such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, not just Databricks-provided models. If your organization already has capacity commitments directly with a provider, Unity Gateway becomes the single point to track that usage and enforce spend limits across teams and use cases.
Unity Catalog Skills (Beta)
You can now publish, govern, and share agent skills with Unity Catalog. A skill is a first-class Unity Catalog securable ( catalog.schema.skill ) that follows the SKILL.md specification , so you register it once and control who can discover, use, and update it with the same permissions, tags, and audit that protect your tables.
Looker visual modeling canvas for BigQuery enters preview
A drag-and-drop canvas builds and edits LookML models on BigQuery sources: join tables, define dimensions and measures, preview results and publish Explores without writing LookML.
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available
Conversational Analytics verified queries , also known as golden queries , are now generally available. You can also now define verified queries in Looker (Google Cloud core) instances.
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects
Now available in preview, model localization is supported for imported projects. By default, Looker uses the locale definitions from the importing project only, if the importing project has locale definitions.
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Manage Postgres, edit variables, and connect agents with the Railway CLI
If your first question about a feature is “what’s the CLI command?”, we’ve got a few for you. Manage Postgres HA, restore to a point in time, and set up connection pooling from your terminal. Bulk-edit your variables from the CLI, then review the diff before applying changes.
Railway for Everyone, Cloud Agents Everywhere, Edge Rules, Redis HA
Good morning, afternoon, and evening, and tomorrow! We aim to please here at the Railway corporation and we hope that this Changelog will make you happier than baseline. A macro note, we hear you on the annoyance about builds. We've been scaling that Infra up with demand, a lot of the new announcements we have here use pure VMs for your workloads.
One-click Postgres major version upgrades, email forwarding for Railway domains, Claude Max 20x for Conductors
Olá, São Paulo! 🇧🇷 We've added a [Railway CDN](https://docs.railway.com/networking/cdn) region in São Paulo, Brazil, bringing cached content closer to your users in South America.
Access Groups, better template editing, Railway Agent Connectors
The best infrastructure changes are reviewable, reversible, and visible to the right people. This week, Access Groups bring project-level controls to Enterprise workspaces, templates gain Agent-assisted editing with staged review and rollback, and Railway Agent Connectors bring external tools into the conversation. Let's get into it!
Railway Sandboxes, use your ChatGPT subscription with Railway Agent, MySQL PITR
Your agents have work to do. We've got computers for them. This week, Railway Sandboxes are generally available. You can also now use your existing ChatGPT subscription to power Railway Agent. We're also bringing point-in-time recovery to MySQL. Both features are available to try in [Priority Boarding](https://railway.com/account/feature-flags).
Cloud Agents Beta, Postgres Automatic CVE Patching, Railway Mobile App for Android
A burrito in the U.S. is $20, but Railway still starts at $5. That burrito? The same, made expensive. Railway? Continuously evolving. Adding features. Moisturized. Speaking of moisturized, these new features in this very Changelog help you stay that way. This set of features are focused on how you can work and relax, all at the same time.
Free VMs without an account, tracing, OpenCode on Cloud Agents
Your next project can start with an SSH command. This week, we're opening up free VMs with no account required, introducing tracing in Priority Boarding, and bringing OpenCode to Cloud Agents. Let's get into it!
Railway plugin for ChatGPT, dev.new preview, new observability panels
ChatGPT learns to drive a train this week: the official Railway plugin is live, so you can deploy and operate your projects from a chat window. We're also sharing an early preview of [dev.new](http://dev.new), a new way to go from prompt to production on Railway. And the Observability dashboard picks up six new panels, synced cursors, and drag-to-zoom.