If you’ve been looking for an excuse to hack on a project and get paid, we’ve got some fresh template bounties:
- Opensource LLMs: Deepseek, Qwen, Llama, GPT OSS in combination for $600,
- MLflow for $350
- Fullstack FastAPI app for $500
These aren’t just one-off builds either. The more people use them, the larger your payout will be over time (infinite money glitch).
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 “stealth” AI model drop, but it didn’t take long for folks to figure out who’s behind it.
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 we ’re hiring! 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 have them reach out to Ian.
With that out of the way, this week’s edition of the Railway Changelog is packed with new features.
Let’s get into it!
One-click Image Upgrades to Priority Boarding
One-click image upgrades in your service settingsNow available in Priority Boarding: 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 latest tag will automatically redeploy.
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.
Let us know in Central Station if you have any feedback or run into issues.
Passkeys to Priority Boarding
Now available in Priority Boarding: Add Passkeys to your account’s Security Settings.
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).
What this means for you:
- Less friction: No need to open an app and copy over a code every time you log in
- More security: Passkeys can’t be phished or intercepted, since they’re bound to your device
- Peace of mind: If you lose access to your authenticator app, your Passkey gives you another way back in
Restore Deleted Volumes
Restore a deleted volumeDeleting 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 Central Station.
Fixes and Improvements
- 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!
- We improved the dev.new experience by adding the ability to deploy a function directly, making it faster for you to deploy them. Go to dev.new/function to try it out. There are also a couple of new shortcuts: