🎉 Welcome to this week’s edition of the Railway Changelog! 🚀

Before we get started, we hope your month has been nothing short of magical as we begin wrapping up the first quarter of the year.

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There is no finer right a Railway passenger can exercise than voting!

We’re about to enter Q2 planning! Influence the product! Vote on our roadmap now!

https://station.railway.com/roadmap

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Now, let’s hop aboard and see what we shipped this week! 🚂✨

Preferred Deployment Region set to EU West (Amsterdam, Netherlands) in a workspace

You now have the keys to lock in your preferred deployment region for new services in your workspace.

Just head to your workspace settings, choose a region, and click “Update Region.” From then on, every new service you deploy in that workspace will default to your selected region.

By setting a default region for your workspace, you no longer need to manually update regions to your preferred region each time you spin up a new service. Set it once and you’re good to go!

People who have been closely following developments of Railway Metal (to get that sweet performance + pricing) have been waiting with bated breath for a feature or two.

We’re pleased to announce: no blockers remain.

For all services, this week we shipped:

For stateful services, services with a volume, we shipped:

The last step is to migrate people over.

Over the last month, we have been migrating Hobby workloads to Metal. By May 2nd, we will begin to “force” migrate Pro workloads. You can see our timeline on our cutover here.

We strongly urge businesses on the platform to reach out to Railway if you’d like the Railway team to oversee your migration: open a Private Thread with the team.

Railpack deploying a Rocket app

This week, we’re back with another big round of updates and improvements to Railpack!

We’re stoked to announce that Railpack now supports Ruby apps with zero config. If you’re a Ruby on Rails developer, your app will just work out of the box. No extra setup needed.

And that’s not all. Railpack now supports Rust apps too! Whether you’re building with Rocket or Axum or anything rusty, we’ve got you covered.

P.S. We've started seeing some MCP servers pop up in the wild. Do you have one? Share it with us, we'd love to try it out!