If you’ve been looking for an excuse to hack on a project 

These aren’t just one-off builds either. The more people use them, the larger

Speaking of AI, this week we saw that coding agents might finally agree on a 

config standard for defining instructions 

(miracles do happen). We’ve also seen a new 

, but it didn’t take long for folks to 

On our side at Railway, things are just as busy. 

This week we're bringing you a trio of headline features that should make your Railway xp, well, op. We're talking one-click image updates, long-requested passkeys functionality, and a new way to recover deleted volumes. 

Before we get to that, we wanted to let you know 

! In particular, if you’ve worked with a stellar recruiter, we'd really like to meet them. Please let them know we’re looking to grow our Talent team and 

With that out of the way, this week’s edition of the Railway Changelog is 

One-click Image Upgrades to Priority Boarding

One-click image upgrades in your service settings

: Check for updates to image-based services right from your service settings, and upgrade them with a single click.

If there are any available minor or patch updates, you’ll see a button to upgrade. For semantic version changes, we’ll stage the update for you. Meanwhile, services running on the 

We’ve also made it possible to skip specific updates. If there’s an upgrade you don’t want to apply, just dismiss it from the dropdown and you won’t get notified about it again. 

This feature brings us one step closer to automatic minor and patch upgrades for your databases and services

. It’ll be one less thing for you to worry about, and should give you more confidence that you’re running on the latest, greatest, and safest images.

 if you have any feedback or run into issues.

Passkeys work as an extra verification step, just like two-factor authentication (2FA), but without the hassle of juggling authenticator apps or typing in codes. Instead, they’re tied to something you already have: your device’s built-in security (like Face ID, Touch ID, or a hardware key).

 No need to open an app and copy over a code every time you log in

Passkeys can’t be phished or intercepted, since they’re bound to your device

f you lose access to your authenticator app, your Passkey gives you another way back in

Deleting a volume shouldn’t feel like cutting the wrong wire in a “Mission: Impossible” movie. 

Maybe you were moving too fast, maybe you selected the wrong environment, or maybe you just didn’t realize that you’d need that data later. We’ve seen it all. Until now, deleting a volume on Railway was final, and if you got it wrong -- boom, data gone.

That’s not how it should be. Now, when you delete a volume, it won’t vanish instantly. Instead, it enters a 48-hour grace period where you can restore it with a single click.

Let us know what you think about this feature by dropping us a line in 

We improved the selection flow for the connected git branch to production by replacing the old dropdown with a searchable branch picker. No more endless scrolling!

 experience by adding the ability to deploy a function directly, making it faster for you to deploy them. 

. There are also a couple of new shortcuts:

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Image Upgrades, Passkeys, Restore Deleted Volumes

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