Greetings from Railway HQ where the Q4 train has left the station and is starting to gather speed.

We’re back to regularly scheduled programming after 

, and we couldn’t be more excited to share some new features with you. 

Plugins are being deprecated in favor of Services with Volumes, which goes into GA on Monday

, services with volumes are the future of databases on Railway. Database templates have been in 

 for a few weeks now and we’ve been busy improving flows and softening any hard edges. 

On Monday, database templates will be the default for anyone deploying a new database on Railway. 

Some updates we’ve made meanwhile include:

Improved information around the “Data” tab

Prompting to connect to your database via variable references

Ability to deploy database templates when you don’t have a GitHub account linked

Usage Limits are available in Account settings

Usage Limits allow you to set a maximum limit for usage during a billing cycle.

The response has been excellent and today we’re thrilled to announce that Usage Limits are now generally available via Account settings.

Feature Flags let you opt-in to new Priority Boarding features

Atomic Feature Flags let Priority Boarding users opt-in to new features on a case-by-case basis. 

This is exciting for a number of reasons:

New features will be opt-in at the atomic level, giving you more control of your Railway experience

We’ll be able to release new and experimental features with breaking changes to Priority Boarding on an opt-in basis

We’ll be able to transition to more granular control of feature releases

We’re excited for this new tool for releasing features, hope you like it!

Deploy a public GitHub repo by pasting a URL into the command palette

It’s now possible for Priority Boarding users to deploy any public GitHub repo to Railway simply by pasting the URL in the command palette. 

Have a public repo that you’d like to run on Railway? Give it a shot! 

You’ll first have to activate the feature flag via Account Settings → Feature Flags. After that, you’ll be able to paste your URL in the command palette (or on 

) and we’ll automatically detect the repo and import it into your project. 

We added a new GraphQL API collection generator service template using 

For Free and Trial users, we decreased the volume size to 0.5 GB

We added an option in the volume settings to grow the volume size when transferring the project to a team on the Pro plan

In the CLI, we now prompt for a service when linking a project

When introspecting a database service, we now show a banner with a link to the docs on variable references

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Database Templates GA, Usage Limits GA, Atomic Feature Flags, Deploy Public GitHub Repos

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