We’re back at the keyboard this week to deliver the first of fifty-two changelogs in 2024. 

Since this week we’re in heads-down planning mode for the quarter, we’d like to invite YOU to tell US absolutely everything you want us to know about your Railway experience.

Seriously folks, we’re doing a Feedback-a-thon. 

Railway collects feedback 24/7, and we are always listening. Sometimes, we are listening a bit more intently than other times. This is one of those times. 

Long time passengers of Railway know that we plan projects once a quarter. This week we are racking up Linear tickets like speeding infractions in a fancy neighborhood.

 and the team used it to share never-before-seen concepts and collect project feedback. 

We are doing something a bit different this year — showing off our project pitches to you.

Now you can comment on new ideas and let us know if they resonate. 

The “cheerleader” (formal name: Planning Owner) for each idea has each topic watched over like a hawk — so it’s the same as texting them directly. Let us have it.

If typing isn’t your style, we have a stage for you to yell at us at with your inside voice. We will be hosting another community call with our new DevRel, Jason “Roach” Roche, on Monday, January 8th at 7:00 PM EST / 4:00 PM PST. 

This will have a twist, instead of asking questions via Slido — we will be reviewing the top Feedback items proposed by people on the call from

This is another reminder that Plugins will be deprecated on 

Once again we’d like to point you to the migration guide:

Migrating from Legacy Plugins to Database Services

And if you have any questions at all, please check out the 

We fixed some issues with the dashboard that should result in a substantial speedup for some users … we’re talking 5x in some cases. 

The issue was related to fetching and rendering a whole bunch of stuff related to environment configuration that actually doesn’t need to be rendered in the UI.

So check out the dashboard when you get a chance and let us know if it got faster for you, too. 

When promoting a variable, if staged changes is enabled, we stage the change

We fixed an issue where project viewers were unable to see the canvas

We improved the authentication flow in the Community Forum

We are pausing EDU License sign-ups due to demand. Existing EDU Licenses are unaffected and will maintain service for their term and future renewals.

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Feedback Season, Plugin Migration Reminder, Dashboard Speedup

Changelog #0167