Hello everyone! This week we have focused on getting our documentation up to snuff (fun) and working on the business side of the house (not so fun) we have a few announcements for you.

Late May, our changelog featured proposed changes to our offerings within Railway. 

After a month of discussion with our community, we are pleased to announce that we have finalized our proposal. We expect to have all of these changes in the product by end of July. Here are the big items coming:

Reducing the Developer Plan Credit Grant to $5

Execution time limits on the Starter plan


While we roll out these larger changes, we plan to improve the visibility of your usage and status within the platform. We have added additional notifications within the product, added plan usage emails, and we have incoming UI changes to keep you in the know about your usage and plan limits. To assist with the transition: during the July billing cycle, we will be giving all developer plan subscribers $5 in extra credit this month while we adjust the plans.

We are committed to building a sustainable product alongside our users and we wouldn’t get this far without y’all. An extra thank you to all of our community members who raised feedback while we worked on these plans. 

our final announcement with more details here.

 As with any major change to to Railway, we strive to keep you in the loop and message often on these changes as they go live.

Users can now build their Docker projects with 

BuildKit should speed up builds in some cases and improve layer caching.

There now exists a dedicated documentation site for Nixpacks. It is just the beginning and the design/colours/logo will likely change soon. However, it should help users (on and off Railway) get setup with Nixpacks and hopefully answer any questions about how Nixpacks works and what options there are to configure it.

The docs are open source and live in the core Nixpacks repo. As always on our open source repos, 

Shipped a update to Railway docs that paid down some information debt

Block plugin access on the dashboard when free plan credits run out

Block access to Railway variables when free plan credits run out

Fixed an issue with credit gating databases, sorry about that!

Fixed an issue with SSL certs on certain browsers

Added a banner that warns users about incoming pricing changes

https://res.cloudinary.com/railway/image/upload/v1656721174/docs/plan-changes-nix_vw1f3i.png

Incoming Plan Changes, Docker BuildKit Support, NixPacks Docs

Changelog #0088