{"company":{"name":"Railway","slug":"railway","website":"https://railway.com","category":"cloud-hosting"},"question":"What has Railway shipped recently?","answer":"In the last 30 days, Railway shipped 16 tracked updates. The most recent was \"Railway adds activity feed filters, guided IaC migration, and CLI cron jobs\" on 2026-10-16.","window":{"days":30,"updateCount":16,"returned":16},"generatedAt":"2026-10-17T13:01:19.695Z","updates":[{"title":"Railway adds activity feed filters, guided IaC migration, and CLI cron jobs","summary":"Railway introduced activity feed filters to isolate service-specific changes, a guided CLI workflow to migrate from Config as Code to Infrastructure as Code, and new cron job commands (`railway cron list` and `railway cron run`) in the CLI. The update also includes CDN configuration improvements and fixes for Config as Code migrations.","date":"2026-10-16","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/2026-10-16-activity-feed-filters.md","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"The Best Declarative Deploy Configs in 2026","summary":"Railway is replacing its older JSON/TOML-based deploy configs with a new infrastructure-as-code model using TypeScript (GA), Python, and Go. The new approach lets teams define multi-service infrastructure in code with review workflows (plan/apply) and environment-specific configurations, improving reproducibility and Git-based governance.","date":"2026-10-14","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://blog.railway.com/p/declarative-deploy-configs","publisher":"blog.railway.com"},{"title":"Railway hosts 9Router AI gateway template for self-hosted LLM routing","summary":"Railway added a new template for 9Router, a self-hosted AI gateway that unifies access to Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and OpenAI tools. Users can deploy it on Railway with minimal setup by configuring an initial password, then route AI requests across multiple providers from a single dashboard.","date":"2026-10-11","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"integration","signalTypeLabel":"Integration","sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/deploy/9router.md","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Railway.com is now just Railway on iOS, Railway Authentication, OpenRouter Support","summary":"Railway updated its iOS app to drop the '.com' suffix, rebranding it simply as 'Railway.' It also launched Railway Authentication for Enterprise customers, allowing SAML-based login gating for deployment domains, and introduced a beta OpenRouter integration to bring AI model APIs directly into Railway workflows.","date":"2026-10-09","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/railway-ios-auth-openrouter","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Railway adds Railway Authentication and OpenRouter integration, rebrands iOS app","summary":"Railway rebranded its iOS app to simply 'Railway' and launched Railway Authentication to restrict access to deployment domains via SAML providers for Enterprise customers. It also introduced an OpenRouter integration in beta, allowing developers to use their preferred AI models directly within Railway.","date":"2026-10-09","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/railway-ios-auth-openrouter.md","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Introducing Railway Authentication via identity-aware proxy","summary":"Railway introduced Railway Authentication via an identity-aware proxy, allowing enterprise users to gate non-public services (staging previews, internal tools) behind Railway login at the environment or service level. Forked environments inherit the setting, simplifying compliance and access control without manual OIDC or proxy setup.","date":"2026-10-08","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://blog.railway.com/p/railway-authentication-identity-aware-proxy","publisher":"blog.railway.com"},{"title":"For open source builderswho want more","summary":"Railway introduced a partner program for open source projects to turn repositories into one-click deploy templates, earning a 25% commission on deployments. The program offers SEO-boosting partner pages, community feedback tools, and revenue-sharing across templates built with a partner's stack.","date":"2026-10-06","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"partnership","signalTypeLabel":"Partnership","sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/partners","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Railway Agent now available in Slack and Discord","summary":"Railway released its Railway Agent bot for Slack and Discord to general availability after a July priority boarding phase. Users can connect the agent via Account Settings and interact with it by mentioning @Railway Agent in chats to fetch quick info about Railway projects.","date":"2026-10-05","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://blog.railway.com/p/railway-agent-slack-discord","publisher":"blog.railway.com"},{"title":"MongoDB high availability, custom headers for project webhooks, MySQL PITR","summary":"Railway introduced MongoDB high availability in Priority Boarding, allowing replica sets for failover resilience, custom headers for project webhooks to support tool integrations, and general availability for MySQL point-in-time recovery to restore databases to specific timestamps. All features are now available in Railway's platform.","date":"2026-10-01","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/2026-10-02-mongodb-high-availability","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Railway adds MongoDB high availability, custom webhook headers, and MySQL PITR GA","summary":"Railway introduced MongoDB high availability in Priority Boarding, allowing replica sets with automatic failover for supported MongoDB 7 and 8 services. Project webhooks now support custom headers for enhanced integrations, and MySQL point-in-time recovery graduated to general availability for standalone and HA clusters.","date":"2026-10-01","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/2026-10-02-mongodb-high-availability.md","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Incident Report: September 30, 2026: Domain Routing Disruption","summary":"Railway experienced a 5-minute domain routing disruption on September 30, 2026, causing HTTP 404 errors for new connections to Railway-hosted domains due to a race condition between a schema migration and a binary rollout in its distributed routing control plane. Workloads remained operational, but public and private network access failed until the schema update completed.","date":"2026-09-30","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"technical","signalTypeLabel":"Technical","sourceUrl":"https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-sept-30-2026-routing-disruption","publisher":"blog.railway.com"},{"title":"How to Deploy and Scale Docker Containers on Railway in 2026","summary":"Railway now supports direct deployment of Docker containers from Dockerfiles or pre-built images, handling infrastructure like networking, scaling, and billing. The platform uses BuildKit for builds, offers caching optimizations, and provides vertical/horizontal scaling with resource limits and autoscaling. Persistent data requires external storage like Volumes or databases.","date":"2026-09-30","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://blog.railway.com/p/deploy-scale-docker-containers-railway","publisher":"blog.railway.com"},{"title":"Free VMs without an account, tracing, OpenCode on Cloud Agents","summary":"Railway introduced free Linux VMs accessible via `ssh railway.new` without requiring an account, each with 2 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 60 minutes (extendable to 24 hours with sign-up). The platform also launched tracing in Priority Boarding to track request flows across services with waterfall timelines, and enabled OpenCode on Cloud Agents for persistent, disconnected coding sessions.","date":"2026-09-25","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/2026-09-25-free-vms-without-an-account","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Railway adds free VMs without account, tracing, and OpenCode on Cloud Agents","summary":"Railway introduced free Linux VMs accessible via `ssh railway.new` without requiring an account, each with 2 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 60 minutes (claimable within 24 hours). The update also added distributed tracing in Priority Boarding to track request flows across services, and support for running OpenCode on persistent Cloud Agents for persistent coding sessions.","date":"2026-09-25","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/2026-09-25-free-vms-without-an-account.md","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Railway Sandboxes, use your ChatGPT subscription with Railway Agent, MySQL PITR","summary":"Railway made Sandboxes generally available, enabling isolated Linux VMs for agents or tasks alongside infrastructure. Users can now connect their ChatGPT subscription to power Railway Agent models like GPT-6 Astra, with usage billed to OpenAI. MySQL point-in-time recovery was also introduced, allowing timestamp-based restores within a 7-day archive window.","date":"2026-09-17","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://railway.com/changelog/2026-09-18-railway-sandboxes","publisher":"railway.com"},{"title":"Usage-Based vs. Fixed Pricing: Which Is Cheaper in 2026?","summary":"Railway details its resource-consumption pricing model (metered CPU, memory, and volume by the minute) and compares it to fixed and request-based alternatives. The post argues consumption pricing is cheaper for uneven workloads but less predictable, while fixed pricing suits steady workloads.","date":"2026-09-17","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://blog.railway.com/p/usage-based-vs-fixed-pricing-2026","publisher":"blog.railway.com"}],"attribution":{"source":"Spyingbee","url":"https://spyingbee.com/updates/railway","citation":"Spyingbee, \"Railway updates\", https://spyingbee.com/updates/railway (retrieved 2026-10-17)"}}