 dropped. Developer setups got a boost too, with a 

CLI that lets you summon any AI model right from your terminal

Oh, and speaking of drops — this is Changelog entry number 250 🎉. That’s 250 weeks of shipping updates, cool launches, and (hopefully) giving you a fun read. Here’s to many more! 

While all of these announcements might sound exciting, 

don’t make them distract you from what actually matters

 until Aug 11th, 12pm ET. Every valid submissions gets you $25 Railway Credits (Railway bucks), and gives you the chance to win up to $1000 (real bucks). 

It’s the perfect excuse to play with all of the new shiny AI releases.

Now that we’ve settled that — here’s what shipped this week. Let’s go!

Previously, templates could only be deployed to 

 projects. This was frustrating because it wasn’t easy for you to have all of your app’s services in one place.

Fortunately, it’s now possible to deploy templates to 

 an entire SaaS and add it to your project!

Directus - Turn any SQL database into an API.

ParadeDB - A modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres

If you'd like to get more involved, we offer a 

, where you can get 25% of whatever we make whenever a user deploys your template. Check out these resources that go over 

, but we have some creators pulling in 6-figure incomes from templates already.

Add Tax ID to your billing info in your billing settings

To our friends in Europe especially, this one's for you!

You can now add a Tax ID to your payment billing info in your

. This is useful so that your invoices meet local tax regulations and may help you claim tax deductions where applicable.

As we expand our tax registrations globally, adding a Tax ID will help ensure accurate tax treatment for your account.

If you need a hand with this or run into any issues, 

Early preview of the Railway MCP in action

Last week we mentioned we were working on the 

 — a way to automate deploying and managing your apps on Railway with AI. 

We’ve now got a version running. It’s early. Very early. But it works. Soon you’ll be able to say “Hey Cursor, build me a $1B app and deploy it on Railway. Make no mistakes” (results will vary).

Next week, we’ll share it first with folks in Priority Boarding, our early access program. 

To give you a glimpse of what to expect. Here are some workflows you’ll be able to achieve:

Building projects, deploying them and generating a domain

Searching and deploying a template or a Docker image to add it to your project

Pulling build/deploy logs from running services for debugging

And a lot of other tools your coding agent will be able to use

In the meantime, we’d love to hear what workflows and features you’d want to see. Are you using MCP servers in your day-to-day? What do you like/not like and feel is missing?You can share your ideas in 

We improved the volume name generator to make volume names more clear like 

We improved the UI of skipped deployments by adding a tooltip that explains exactly why they were skipped

We fixed an issue where non-workspace members could see non-functional workspace pages

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Deploy Templates to Existing Projects, Billing Info Tax ID,  MCP Sneak Peek

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