🎉 Welcome to another exciting edition of the Railway Changelog, where we don’t just fix bugs—we make them cry! 

This time, we’re rolling out some fantastic features that’ll have you wondering how you ever survived without them. Buckle up, because Railway Metal has landed on a new horizon! 

But wait, there’s more! Say goodbye to data disasters with our shiny new database backups feature. Now you can secure your precious data with the ease of a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat—only less fluffy and much more reliable.

It’s like finding an extra fry at the bottom of the bag! So let’s dive in and explore what’s new!

metal ship taking off..and finding a new region to land

Video showing how to switch deployment region to Railway Metal US East (Beta)

We’re thrilled to announce that Railway Metal is now in Beta for the brand new 

Hobby users can easily relocate their stateless services across the US.

As a rapidly growing hyperscaler, we’re excited to expand Railway Metal into new regions, with plans to launch in at least two more locations by the end of the year.

Showing how to create backups for a database service

—a new feature available under a feature flag in 

 users more control over their data management.

With this feature, you can easily create, delete, and restore backups for services with volumes, enabling streamlined data management directly from your dashboard.

Restoring a backup spins up a new volume with all your data from the selected backup and conveniently includes previous backups as well, so your full data history is preserved in the new volume. This allows for seamless transitions and easy data recovery without losing any context.

Cost-wise, we’ve made it efficient. Backups use an incremental "copy-on-write" approach, meaning you’re only billed for the new changes since previous backups. Data already stored in another backup or within the volume itself isn’t billed again, keeping your backup costs the same as the volume’s storage rate.

This feature offers you a reliable and secure method for protecting your data, all while ensuring your costs remain predictable.

Check out this Rust Rocket deployment guide and the many others we shipped this week!

We've just dropped a fresh stack of guides to power up your dev flow!  🚀🔥

Deploying a Laravel App (Significant Updates)

, and we’ll whip something up for you! 👨‍🍳💡

Mark All as Read on the Inbox page—Clear out all notifications

, we introduced the Inbox page on Railway Help Station. 🚀

Now, say goodbye to notification overload— we’ve added a “Mark All as Read” button! Clear your inbox in one click and stay focused on what matters. 📬✅

Fix a rare page crash that would happen if you opened a new deployment very very quickly after it was created

Reduce the number of open websocket connections used for graphql subscriptions.

Sped up the time it takes to load old changelogs.

Fixed an issue were resizing a volume would sometimes fail.

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Railway Metal New Region, Database Backups, Help Station Improvement

Changelog #0210