You know what they say about the changelog, right? It's like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But fear not, like said chocolates, everything here is all sweet.

Let's dive into the latest features and improvements that we've been cooking up for you.

The Templates Kickback program grants 25% kickback on templates you create

: We are pleased to announce the totally new 

Starting now, every template you publish in the 

 will be eligible for a 25% kickback on Railway usage. 

In practical terms, this means that if someone racks up $100 in spend using your template, we’ll grant you $25 in Railway credits at the end of the month. Easy!

Best part, no cumbersome application process and no need to meet with Faraz. 

Here are some of our favorite community provided templates that we think are cool:

There are so many logs emitted to Railway that if each line of application logs was an actual wooden log, we could build an estimated 30 Billion log cabins. But we aren’t in the home building industry, we are in the application delivery industry so let’s talk logging.

We recently introduced a new feature that aims to make the logging experience easier for developers. Until now, it was often difficult to identify errors in an application because logs that went to 

However, with the new update, logs that log through 

 are now highlighted in red in the logs pane. This makes it much easier to identify errors and resolve them quickly. This needs to be enabled in the log preferences in the bottom right. Debugging now should feel less like finding a needle in a logstack. 

Deploys on Railway are such a major part of how you experience magic on Railway. However, did you know that the way we handled deploys was virtually untouched from 3 years ago when Railway first started? 

J.R., Ahmed, and Cooper worked on splitting the flow from our Backend service to rely on a new scheduler with all-new logic. The new flow better handles errors when things go wrong, which means that your deploys should no longer infinitely be stuck in a “building” state. It also unlocks features such as horizontal scaling, hosting arbitrary images, and persisted storage.

LAST CALL! CLI v2 is going away. Please upgrade to the new CLI via 

 - we are deprecating the old routes next week

Played wack a mole with some unsavory workloads, we regret the issues this cause to DB availability

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Templates Kickback, Log Highlighting, CLIv2 Deprecation Reminder

Changelog #0128