Platform February 2025 Release

This update introduces several new features, improvements, and fixes aimed at enhancing stability, performance, and usability. The following changes reflect our ongoing commitment to providing a robust platform for your deployments and management tasks.

New features

• BYOC clusters: Addon ports are no longer exposed by default – ports are now dynamically exposed and removed as required by exposed addons.
• Tailscale support: Added support for Tailscale on addons, including restore jobs.
• Tailscale keys: Keys will now be automatically re-generated.
• Secret file uploads: When uploading a secret file, you now have the option to specify whether it is UTF or binary.
• Additional UI metrics: Introduced GPU-specific metrics for workloads deployed on GPU nodes (such as GPU consumption and ephemeral storage usage).
• Enhanced volume UI: New management and monitoring capabilities for volumes at the project level.
• Stack templates: Public one‑click templates for the simple deployment of popular software such as DeepSeek.
• Custom BYOC node pool IDs: You can now define custom IDs for your BYOC node pools.
• Organisation-level BYOC clusters: Clusters can now be defined on an organisation level, allowing you to share access to clusters across multiple teams.
• GitOps commit messages: When making changes to a GitOps‑enabled template, you can now specify a commit message.
• Easier template creation: Added a button to the View specification modal to create a new template from spec.
• Audit log: Added an Audit Log subpages to secrets, pipelines, and templates.
• Volume metrics: Added support for volume IOPS and throughput metrics.
• BYOC metric graphs: Added node IO Wait to metric graphs.

Improvements

• AKS update: Updated AKS version to 1.31.
• Buildpack update: Added the HEROKU_24 builder as the new default buildpack stack; HEROKU_22_CLASSIC is now deprecated.
• BYOA import: Improved error message parsing for a more seamless Helm chart import.
• Addon triage page: Refined layout for easier navigation.
• Template cluster node: Switching the provider type now omits irrelevant data.
• Deployment timestamps: Improved handling of deployment timestamp ranges when filtering logs or metrics.
• Build logs: Buildpack now displays a warning when invalid build arguments are passed.
• Template node editing: Users with access to custom plans can now correctly edit the name on templates if the resource already exists.
• Plan updates: Enhanced feedback when changing plans to indicate a successful update.
• Shell controls: Additional controls are now visible without needing to open the terminal.
• Autoscaling info: Service autoscaling information now correctly appears in the header after enabling an autoscaling configuration.
• AWS autoscaling: Reliability improvements have been made.
• Preview environment: Deployment services now allow selection of a start build node as the source.
• Shell terminal: Made major performance improvements to the UI components.
• Volume usage graph: Redesigned for better readability on services with multiple volumes.
• Template project node: When creating a new template, the empty project node is expanded by default.
• Tailscale auth keys: Automatic workload redeployment when keys are regenerated ensures maintained connectivity.
• Pod count: Increased the maximum pod count for GCP and Azure to 256 and 250 respectively.
• BYOC AWS VPC validation: Extended logic to handle additional edge cases.
• Template Execute action: Added the option to skip awaiting an action.
• Addon updates: Updated PgBouncer to 1.24.0 and RMQ to 4.0.5.
• Triage view: Now displays runtime errors from pods terminated incorrectly.
• Run time display: Added a “latest run time” display and a 50‑item option to pages.
• Cluster creation navigation: Improved when creating a cluster during project creation.
• Container logs: Viewing logs within a release flow now updates in real time.
• Preview environment expiry: Reliability improvements to prevent unexpected expiries.
• GitLab reliability: Several improvements made for self‑hosted GitLab.
• Release flows: Various UX improvements to the release flow UI.
• Build lists: Now show a Build Health button.

Fixes

• Template Dockerfile handling: Template service nodes using a dynamic branch will no longer cause the Dockerfile editor to get stuck.
• Branch selection: Resolved a bug causing the branch selection to reset incorrectly when a reference was input.
• Cluster deletion: Added an additional confirmation prompt when deleting a cluster.
• Log tailing: Fixed an issue with the log tailing and metrics APIs where some containers were not found when filtering.
• Addon versions: Updated RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL addon versions.
• Team creation prompt: Corrected the organisation create team prompt to display an insufficient permissions error when required.
• Container memory errors: Fixed an issue where containers that ran out of memory were marked as failing if the issue occurred more than five minutes earlier.
• Organisation roles: Fixed roles not syncing correctly on user signup.
• Log view search: Resolved issues with the RegEx search functionality.
• UI overflow: Fixed overflowing issues in the Subdomain path Service selector.
• AWS custom subnet validation: Fixed an incorrect check on AWS clusters.
• Azure node pool error: Implemented error detection for a specific provisioning error.
• Template errors: Templates no longer throw an error for a missing argument if passed as an empty string.
• Build nodes: Release build nodes now have their values prefilled.
• Template scrolling: Fixed scrolling issues on the template issue page.