Cloud Agent tasks, a better `railway ca`, Agent Connectors
Railway launched Tasks for Cloud Agents and made Agent Connectors generally available. Tasks allow developers to hand coding jobs to cloud agents via MCP, CLI, or API to run in the background without maintaining an open session.
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AI Function task support in Declarative Automation Bundles (Beta)
Databricks introduced Beta support for AI Function tasks within Declarative Automation Bundles.
Give agents only the access they need
Buildkite released token permissions and queue scopes for agent tokens, allowing teams to restrict agent capabilities and limit job acceptance to specific queues.
Many-to-many relationships in semantic views (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI launched a public preview for modeling many-to-many relationships between logical tables within semantic views.
BigQuery connections for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL are in preview
Google Cloud introduced BigQuery federated query connections to MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL in public preview.
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in December
GitHub announced the upcoming deprecation of several Copilot models on December 14, 2026, including Claude Fable 5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Grok 4.6.
Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
AWS added support for Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration in CloudFormation, enabling single-property automated cluster creation and faster serverless database setup.
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Workspace token management, password rotation for HA databases, tracing in the CLI
Railway introduced centralized workspace token management in settings, audit logging for token operations, password rotation across HA database clusters, and request tracing in the CLI.
Automatic security patches, redeploys after credential regeneration
Railway now automatically applies security patches for known vulnerabilities and redeploys affected services. Additionally, services are automatically redeployed when database or bucket credentials are rotated.
October 21 security incident
Railway is responding to a security incident involving unauthorized access to internal systems and recommends that customers rotate sensitive credentials.
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!
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.
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!
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 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).