---
title: "Happy New Year from Railway"
date: 2025-01-03
number: 0219
url: https://railway.com/changelog/2025-01-03-happy-new-year
---

# Happy New Year from Railway

**Happy new Year and welcome to the first changelog of 2025! 🚀**

This week’s update is a short one as the team has been enjoying a well-deserved winter break—resting, recharging, and gearing up for an incredible year ahead.

We’re thrilled to dive into building amazing things starting next week, but before we do, let’s take a moment to celebrate some of last year’s blog highlights. 

Let’s jump in!

## Blog posts highlights of 2024

Here are some of the blog posts from last year:

### Company

- [How We Work (Volume III)](https://blog.railway.com/p/how-we-work-volume-iii)
- [Team Spotlight: Product Engineering](https://blog.railway.com/p/team-spotlight-product-engineering)
- [Team Spotlight: Infrastructure Engineering](https://blog.railway.com/p/team-spotlight-infrastructure-engineering)

### Engineering

- [Support Engineering is Engineering](https://blog.railway.com/p/support-engineering-is-engineering)
- [Scale Not Sales: Automating Revenue So Graph Go Up](https://blog.railway.com/p/scale-not-sales)
- [Upgrading 3 Million Variables to Envelope Encryption](https://blog.railway.com/p/envelope-encryption)

### Users Stories

- [Train an Expert Chatbot with Chatbase](https://blog.railway.com/p/chatbase)
- [Shipping Peace of Mind with ShipAid](https://blog.railway.com/p/shipaid)
- [Writing a New Story at the Intersection of Art and Technology](https://blog.railway.com/p/storyboarder-ai)
- [Watching TV with Marathon](https://blog.railway.com/p/marathon-tv-app)
- [Visualizing Financial Markets with Main Street Data](https://blog.railway.com/p/julian-matos-main-street-data)
- [Writing Software for the Browser with Drifting in Space](https://blog.railway.com/p/drifting-in-space)

## Guides highlights of 2024

Last year, we shipped over [25 language and framework guides](https://docs.railway.com/guides/languages-frameworks) and about 10 community guides to help developers deploy quickly on Railway. Here are some of them:

- [Deploy a Laravel App](https://docs.railway.com/guides/laravel)
- [Deploy a Scala Play App](https://docs.railway.com/guides/play)
- [Deploy a Rust Rocket App](https://docs.railway.com/guides/rocket)
- [Deploy a Ruby on Rails App](https://docs.railway.com/guides/rails)
- [Deploy a SvelteKit App](https://docs.railway.com/guides/sveltekit)
- [Scaling a Saas app on Railway](https://blog.railway.com/p/scaling-a-saas-application)
- [Deploy Triton Inference Server on Railway](https://blog.railway.com/p/deploy-triton-inference-server-on-railway)
- [How to Migrate from Cloudflare Pages to Railway](https://blog.railway.com/p/migrate-from-cloudflare-pages-to-railway)

This year, we’re doubling down on creating content to help you become a pro at deploying and scaling your apps effortlessly. Are there any specific guides you’d like to see? Drop us a [feedback thread](https://help.railway.app/feedback) —we’re ready to cook up something amazing just for you!👨‍🍳💡

## What do you want for 2025?

In the second half of 2024, we created t[his feedback thread to tell us about the nits on Railway](https://help.railway.com/feedback/request-tell-us-about-your-nits-on-the-a3c5878e) and got a lot of feedback and feature requests. 

We stand before you, arms wide open, like a rom-com protagonist in the rain, asking: What do you want from us in 2025? 🌧️✨

Your wish is our to-do list. [Let us know in this thread, and we’ll review your ideas](https://help.railway.com/feedback/tell-us-your-railway-wish-for-2025q1-c51bd278) and consider adding them to our plans (within reason—no unicorns or time machines… yet). 🦄⏳

## Happy New Year Once Again!

We’re deeply grateful for all the support you showed us in 2024.

Here’s to an incredible 2025, filled with amazing accomplishments together! 🥂

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