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title: "Wrapping Up Launch Week 02 - Performance"
date: 2025-03-07
number: 0228
url: https://railway.com/changelog/2025-03-07-launch-week-02-wrap
---

# Wrapping Up Launch Week 02 - Performance

And that’s a wrap on an incredible [Launch Week](https://railway.com/launch-week-02)! 🎉

Our Engineers put on their chef hats, cooked, seasoned and served tasty features daily for developers around the world.

A feast like this is one to remember, and we’ll be savoring it for months to come.

Now, here’s everything we shipped this week. 🚂✨

## Day 01 - Railway Metal Egress & Disk Price Cut

On Monday, we announced **Railway Metal is now Generally Available**, along with major price cuts:

- [Railway v3: Faster and Cheaper](https://blog.railway.com/p/launch-week-02-welcome) from CEO and Founder Jake

## Day 02 - Railpack

On Tuesday, we released [**Railpack**](https://railpack.com/)**, **successor to Nixpacks. This means faster deploys for you on Railway. Currently in Beta, you can enable it in the **Builder** section of your service settings and start building right away!

- [Why we’re moving on From Nix](https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railpack) from Software Engineer JR

## Day 03 - Railway Functions

On Wednesday, we announced **Railway Functions. **Seriously, this is the fastest way to deploy your code and we’ll be making many improvements in the coming weeks!

- [One-Second Deploys? We Didn’t Believe It Either](https://blog.railway.com/p/introducing-railway-functions) from Software Engineer Jared

## Day 04 - Railway for Frontend

On Thursday, we announced **Railway for Frontend**. Whether you’re leveraging Server-side rendering (SSR) or running static sites, your frontend apps now run faster and scale at a lower cost on Railway.

- [Speed Isn’t Just About Code, It’s About Where That Code Runs](https://blog.railway.com/p/railway-for-frontend) from DevRel Engineer Prosper

## Day 05 - Central Station, $1M for Open Source (And One More Thing)

Finally, today we end with a bang, delivering a trifecta of announcements:

We announced **Central Station **(home of support, feedback, and roadmap), **$1m for Open Source, **and *drum roll, wait for it—***SSH** (our most requested feature). 

- [Introducing Central Station](https://blog.railway.com/p/central-station) from Software Engineer Chandrika
- [$1M for Open Source](https://blog.railway.com/p/1M-open-source-kickbacks) from Community Engineer Brody
- [SSH](https://blog.railway.com/p/ssh) from Product Marketer David

It’s been a big week, and we couldn’t have done it without you. Seriously, thank you!

Missed anything? Catch up on all the announcements on our [Launch Week ](https://railway.com/launch-week-02)page. And if you’ve got any thoughts or hot takes, hit us up on [Twitter](https://x.com/Railway) or [Discord](https://discord.gg/railway).

Oh, and if there’s something you really want us to build next, let us know [here](https://station.railway.com/).

Thanks for riding with us this week,

🚄 The Railway Team