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!
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Tags for dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents are now generally available
You can now apply tags to dashboards, notebooks, Databricks apps, and Genie Agents to organize and categorize your workspace assets. This capability is now generally available. Both governed and ungoverned key-value tags are supported. See Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects .
Default Enablement of Copilot Features for Copilot Business and Enterprise
We’re introducing a new global default policy for generally available GitHub Copilot features and supported client capabilities in enterprise and organization Copilot settings. For the next 28 days, you can configure this policy, but it won’t affect feature access for your users yet.
CLI v0.8.1 | CLI
CLI v0.8.1 Continue local work in the cloud: Use cr code handoff --summary to start a new cloud Coding Agent task with your session summary, an optional plan, and an automatically discovered transcript when available. Clearer handoff results: See transfer progress, the branch and commit, transferred filenames, and a direct link to the cloud task.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure HorizonDB supports PostgreSQL 18
Azure HorizonDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, cloud-native database service designed for scalable, high-performance workloads.Azure HorizonDB, now in public preview, includes PostgreSQL 18 support.Learn more.
Private saved views for repository issues and “Relates to” issue relationship is generally available
Private saved views for repository issues Repository issues pages now support private saved views, making it easier to create and save personalized views of your issues. “Relates to” issue relationship The “Relates to” issue relationship now works across the REST API, GraphQL API, webhooks, timeline events, issues search, and projects search.
Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory
Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory for customers who’ve enabled it. When you use agentic autofix, it reviews existing memories for context that can help resolve security alerts. When it creates a fix, it stores the fix pattern as a memory for future use.
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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 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).
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.
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.
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!
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.
October 21 security incident
Railway is responding to a security incident involving unauthorized access to internal systems and recommends that customers rotate sensitive credentials.
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.