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

It’s the first week of Q2, and our team has been deep in planning mode laying the groundwork for a strong quarter ahead.

We’re wrapping up planning week with a change of scenery by jetting off to our biannual company retreat.

With that in mind, things will be a bit quieter on the feature front this week and next.

But before we unplug, let’s take a look at what we shipped this week 🚂✨

Step Support (And Improvements) in Railpack

Steps let you insert additional build actions. They are great for optimizing cache hits, and running commands without interfering with the automatically generated provider commands.

You can also use steps to run custom commands in the build image by specifying inputs and the exact order they should execute.

We also shipped the following improvements:

Use bash as the entry point to better handle signals

Updated the config file format to make it easier to define steps and outputs included in the final image

 team: Chandrika, Nico, and Ray have been hard at work making it so that page loads go down, and thread activity goes up.

People who have been reporting issues on the Railway will enjoy:

Page load times decreasing on avg. by 65 percent

Optimistic message sends on the thread composer

Search of similar threads to show you similar content 

Added a CSAT survey at the end of resolved threads

Added Railpack docs in Central Station search

A bunch of admin related goodies when it comes to sharing context about your issue

Now, it’s easier to answer the question: “Have you complained to Railway today?”

(The answer should be: yes, always, we try to help.)

In Q2, we are focused on leveling up the overall quality of the product. Increasing reliability, improving scalability at the platform level, and introducing few new features that make Railway the best place to deploy, manage, and scale your apps with ease.

We did a roadshow with customers on the platform: and we heard you- you want better Observability, Alerts, a better DB experience. 

So… you’ll hear us talk more about things like finalizing our Metal migration, Railpack, Custom Alerting, Metrics, HA Postgres, and… a faster dashboard.

There’s a lot of work ahead, and we’re excited to dig in! 🚀 

We’re going to be maintaining our hygiene with the progress of feature development on the 

We pushed a fix to always show the preferred region setting on the workspace page

We fixed a navbar bug on the customers page

We fixed a bug with scheduled deletion of workspaces where they would dissapear

We fixed a bug with syncing environment changes 

We pushed a fix to update customer plan metadata on subscription update

We fixed an event stream bug, staged changes shouldn’t pop in and out

We improved CPU Usage query to make results faster

Users can now mark their threads as solved in Help Station

Services stopped from trial credit running out are now automatically redeployed when upgrading to hobby

We pushed a few fixes to improve dashboard performance

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Step Support in Railpack, Faster Central Station, What’s Coming Next

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