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Happy Friday! We've shipped fixes for two common pain points this week.
Easily find the runtime version used for apps running on native environments
Sometimes developers who use Render's native environments for building their apps end up using the incorrect runtime version. Since we didn't publish the runtime version, it took time for developers to figure out why their app didn't work. Developers can now see the version of the runtime their app is using and get just-in-time guidance to change it if it's not what their app needs.

Learn more about Native Environments support in our docs here.
Change the credentials associated with a service
Teams often encounter another challenge when someone who sets up a service leaves their team. Since the developer's credentials remain associated with the service, the team can't deploy the service anymore.

Now, team members can change the credentials associated with any service, ensuring that development continues as the team evolves.
Have a great weekend!
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We have lots of quality-of-life improvements to share this week!
Restart servers using our REST API
Last week, we shipped the ability to restart services without redeploying them. We've now added an API endpoint to do the same — more at https://api-docs.render.com/reference/restart-server.
Faster go-lives for deploys
Massive scale meant some deploys took much longer than we'd have liked to go live. Not anymore! We've rewritten things to make deploy go-lives up to 10x faster.
Improved reliability for PostgreSQL replicas
We've fixed a bizarre edge case where Postgres replicas can get 'stuck' and never catch up with the primary.
Search by service ID
You can now find services using service IDs.

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Early Access: Deploy images from public and private registries
Last week, we introduced the ability to deploy container images directly in early access. You no longer need to wrestle with Dockerfiles, and deploys can be much faster using pre-built container images.

That's it for this week. Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend if you're in the US, and enjoy the Spring Bank Holiday in the UK!
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This week, we're thrilled to share updates on features we know many in our developer community have been looking to see to give developers more flexible options for deploying and operating services on Render. Without further preamble, let's dive in!
New from Render
Now in Early Access: Deploy container images from external registries
Earlier this week, we introduced the option to deploy container images directly on Render. With this capability, you no longer need to wrestle with Dockerfiles and can take advantage of faster deploys.
All developers can deploy images from public registries, and developers on the Teams plan and above can integrate with private registries hosted on GitHub, GitLab, or Docker Hub.

Try deploying your own container image by enabling this feature in Settings.
Platform Improvements
Restart a web service
Developers can now restart a web service any time by navigating to the service page in Render and finding the Restart service option in the Deploy menu.
Restart a database replica
We've supported restart for databases for a while. However, now, as of this week, developers can also restart database replicas by navigating to database replica settings. Render now supports 2-3x more websocket connections for a service
Render's designed to support developers building nearly any type of app, so we're excited to share that apps using websockets will see improved reliability going forward.Faster builds on the free tier
Our infrastructure team recently completed a significant redesign of our free tier, resulting in increased reliability and faster builds. Under the hood, we replaced a rather complex combination of Knative and Istio with a custom solution in Go that does exactly what we want it to do and no more. We call it the Hibernate stack: it allows us to scale services to and from zero based on traffic and allows free services to share the same build and deploy constructs used by paid services. We'll share more details in a blog post soon.Have a great weekend!
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Happy Friday! Many of us at Render were at an onsite this week to explore how we can continue to offer the best developer experience for our users. So, we'll share more about a new feature we're all excited about and other improvements next week.
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Host a ChatGPT retrieval plugin on Render
We created Render Example you can use to get started with ChatGPT plugins, all on Render. You'll need early access to plugins to try it out, and you can join the OpenAI waitlist here.Projects in Early Access
You can now organize your services by app and deployment to make building and managing services much easier.Access projects today by navigating to Settings and opting into Early Access. Available on the Team plan and above.
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It's Friday, and you know what that means! Time for us to dig into all the work we shipped this week.
New from Render
Host a ChatGPT retrieval plugin on Render
We created Render Example you can use to get started with ChatGPT plugins, all on Render. You'll need early access to plugins to try it out, and you can join the OpenAI waitlist here.Product updates
- Billing improvementsYou can now view your invoice immediately after the billing period ends, so you have clarity around your spending on Render all the time.
- External connections to Render Postgres now require TLS v1.2 or higherYou'll also need to use one of the cipher suites listed in our documentation to connect to your databases securely. Learn more here.
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Projects in Early Access
You can now organize your services by app and deployment to make building and managing services much easier.Access projects today by navigating to Settings and opting into Early Access. Available on the Team plan and above.
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Our team is focused on shipping a few new features and bringing our recent Early Access launches into GA, so this week's update is focused on a few critical small wins.
New Releases
Enforced 2FA
🔒 If you're running mission-critical production services on Render, ensuring your Render team is secure is crucial. Starting this week, all Render teams can now require team members to have two-factor authentication enabled on their accounts to access team resources. Product Updates
Rust is now available in Python environments
on Render!We also shipped several minor bug fixes and updates, including a new label for database pages indicating your database instance's plan.
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Projects in Early Access
You can now organize your services by app and deployment to make building and managing services much easier.Get access to projects today by navigating to Settings and opting into Early Access. Available on the Team plan and above.
Get early access to PITR and pgvector
If you're still waiting to use point-in-time recovery
or pgvector
, please get in touch with Support. You'll need to run maintenance on your database to access these features if it was created before March 27, 2023, for PITR, or April 15, 2023, for pgvector.PITR is available for the Pro plan and above databases on the Team plan or higher.
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Happy Friday! It's time to share what we've been up to this week.
New Releases
Point-in-time recovery is now available for new databases.
If you set up a new Pro plan database and are on the Team plan or above, you'll have point-in-time recovery going forward. You can also upgrade any new database to a Pro plan and get access to PITR.Product Updates
Point-in-time recovery is also available for existing databases on the Pro plan.
If you want to enable PITR today and are eligible, contact the Support team to schedule maintenance and enable the feature for your database.pgvector is now available for existing databases.
You can also contact Support if you're interested in enabling pgvector. All databases will eventually have access to both pgvector and PITR, if on the Pro plan, as we complete maintenance over the next few months.
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We launched
Projects in Early Access
a couple of weeks ago. You can now organize your services by app and deployment to make building and managing services much easier.Get access to projects today by navigating to Settings and opting in to the Early Access. Available on the Team plan and above.
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Hi there! We've got a short update for you this week, so we'll keep it brief.
Product Launches
- Projects was released in Early Access this week!You can now organize your services by app and deployment, making developing and managing services in Render more straightforward and delightful. You can get access to the Early Access feature, if you haven't already, in Settings
Feature Improvements
- pgvector is now available for new Postgres databases!pgvector is a Postgres extension allowing you to harness AI to build semantic search into your apps. Over the next couple of months, we'll roll out pgvector to existing databases so that everyone can try it out
Have a good weekend!
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Hi there! It's the end of a productive week at Render, and we're excited to share this week's updates.
Product Launches
- Point-in-time Recovery is now available in Early Access!You can join the preview by navigating to Settings in the dashboard and finding the Early Access section. New databases on the Pro plan or higher, created after joining the Early Access program, will have the option to use PITR. You will be able to enable PITR for existing databases when the feature is generally available. Learn more here.
Feature Updates
- You can now configure apreviewPlantype for Redisto allow preview environments to use a smaller Redis instance size.
- We now remember your last active team and switch to itwhen you log back into Render.
- We've added links to service or deploy logs in service eventsto facilitate debugging when errors occur.
- Changes to instance types are now accurately represented in billing. So, if you change an instance type during a billing period, your bill will be easier to follow.
- We added support for Ruby Env versions3.2.2,3.1.4,3.0.6and2.7.8in native environments.
Bug Fixes
- We made some UI polish improvements throughout the dashboard and billing pages.
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Rebooting our Changelog
Hi there! As of this week, we're relaunching our Changelog. Expect to see new updates here each week and sometimes in your email.
Here's the update for this week:
New Releases
- You can now change the repo connected to a service
- You can now regenerate the deploy hook URL for a service
Product Updates
- Added support for Python 3.11.2
- Updated log level in log streams to map to appropriate syslog priority. The default log severity level is now INFOinstead ofALERT
- Added support for Sumo Logic as a log stream
- Added support for listing more than 100 branches for GitLab repositories
- Service events now display the user who triggered an instance type change
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the display of y-axis labels in metrics charts
- Added an instructive error message in Blueprint syncs if the repo cannot be accessed
- Clarified in the UI that service health checks are internal
- Started cleaning up Preview Environments when a PR is closed, even if Preview Environments aren't enabled
- Fixed an issue causing external Postgres connections to close unexpectedly
Docs Updates
- Updated the REST API docs to reflect monorepo support
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