Good morning, afternoon, and evening! It is Friday somewhere- and this week was the beginning of planning for us. More about that next changelog. 

We held our rescheduled community call on Monday, recording here!

 More events like this to come.

Heres what we have for ya this week!

We announced it last changelog, but now it’s here! 

Multiple services will not make your Execution hours deplete faster. 

Layman’s terms: 60 minutes will be 60 minutes. 


Example: If you have 5 services running in parallel, they will all run for 500 hours until your account runs out of hours or credits.

The way it now works is, instead of summing up all of the uptimes of your services like we did before. We now maintain ranges of the times when you had at least one deploy running. Graph above should help on how we calculate it.

Users on the trial plan should see their previously consumed hours adjust to a lower value and if you hit your limits, you don’t need to wait till next month to be able to redeploy.

(I dunno how many times we need to type this but there is no such concept of hours on the dev plan. Upgrade today! 😎)

If you are using the Nixpacks builder, you can now specify the build command on the service settings page. Helpful if you need to provide a custom build step for your codebase or if your app is slightly custom and Nixpacks doesn’t pickup the build command automatically.

 support for configuring your build in a 

 file.  No more defining your additional packages, install or build commands with the 

 environment variables. Experimental means that the config format may change at any time.

Java is not just the original implementation language of Minecraft, it is also the language of your next big thing! Nixpacks now will auto-detect Gradle projects by default. 

https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks/pull/506

https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks/pull/511

Nixpacks: Python provider support MySQL backends for Django

Nixpacks: Environment variables are correctly passed to PHP FPM

Nixpacks: Add MacPorts as an install method

Nixpacks: Decrease final image size. For Node the images are ~200MB smaller.

Updated the Docs to represent the new hour system

https://res.cloudinary.com/railway/image/upload/v1662763967/og-images/java-time-yaml_abreza.png

Better Free Plan, Configurable Build Command, nixpacks.toml Support, and Better Java Support

Changelog #0098