Happy Friday! We've shipped fixes for two common pain points this week.

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.

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!

We have lots of quality-of-life improvements to share this week!

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.

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.

We've fixed a bizarre edge case where Postgres replicas can get 'stuck' and never catch up with the primary.

You can now find services using service IDs.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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'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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

It's Friday, and you know what that means! Time for us to dig into all the work we shipped this week.

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.

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.

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.

🔒 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.

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We also shipped several minor bug fixes and updates, including a new label for database pages indicating your database instance's plan.

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.

If you're still waiting to use or , 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.

Happy Friday! It's time to share what we've been up to this week.

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.

If you want to enable PITR today and are eligible, contact the Support team to schedule maintenance and enable the feature for your database.

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.

We launched 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.

Hi there! We've got a short update for you this week, so we'll keep it brief.

Have a good weekend!

Hi there! It's the end of a productive week at Render, and we're excited to share this week's updates.

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: