Releasesby GlyphRailway 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).
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You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets
You can add unit tests to pipelines to validate your SQL transformation logic against mock datasets. Unit tests for pipelines are generally available (GA).
Metastore-level ABAC policies are in Beta
Metastore-level ABAC policies are in Beta in Unity Catalog. You can now attach an ABAC policy (row filter, column mask, GRANT, or DENY) at the metastore level, so a single policy applies across every catalog in the metastore, including catalogs created later.
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 is scheduled for retirement
Moonshot AI Kimi K2.7 will be retired on October 30, 2026. Kimi K3 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
HTML generation in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
HTML generation is now available in preview as part of document generation in Snowflake CoWork. You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate an HTML file from your analysis, the same way you generate a PDF or PowerPoint. Generation requires the Cortex Agent code execution tool on the associated agent.
Base environments are now supported on classic compute (Beta)
You can now use base environments to manage Python dependencies on classic compute. You can use Databricks-provided environments or custom workspace-level environments. See Manage dependencies using environments .
Snowpark Container Services backup instance types (General availability)
Backup instance types for Snowpark Container Services compute pools are now generally available and are no longer in Preview .
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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.
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!
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.
MongoDB high availability, custom headers for project webhooks, MySQL PITR
This week, we’re helping your databases weather surprises and your webhooks arrive with everything they need. MongoDB high availability arrives in Priority Boarding, project webhooks gain custom headers, and MySQL point-in-time recovery graduates to general availability. Let’s get into it!
Railway 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.
Railway.com is now just Railway on iOS, Railway Authentication, OpenRouter Support
We just finished planning last week and the features will keep coming until morale improves. We hear that many of you want to bring more and more of your coding subscriptions into Railway and we have just that and more. Anyway, hold your laughter, these features are no joke.
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.
Activity feed filters, guided IaC migration, cron jobs in the CLI
Your project has a lot going on. Your activity feed doesn't need to tell you all of it at once. This week, we're helping you find relevant activity, smoothly move from Config as Code to infrastructure as code, and inspect and trigger cron jobs from your terminal. Let's get into it!