Platform updates, June 2026

The new platform keeps moving toward general availability. This round has one headline feature plus a handful of refinements. As before, we keep the new and the old platform separate, since both run side by side for now. And we are still figuring a good changelog format.

# New platform

# US data center launched

The new platform is now available in the US. North Virginia (us-e1a, AWS us-east-1) joins the European location, so you can choose where your app runs when you create it. This is also a milestone toward operating multiple data center locations worldwide — one of the reasons we rebuilt the platform in the first place. See the US launch post for the details on choosing a region, currencies, and a promo code for a free month.

# New actions menu

We reworked the actions menu - the central place where you trigger operations on an app, environment, or other object. This is the main visual change this month. We will iterate over it and plan to make even more actions/tasks to become available.

See my post about action oriented UX for motivation.

# Social logins: Google and GitLab

You can now sign up and log in with Google and GitLab, alongside the existing GitHub authentication. One less password to manage, and a faster path through boarding for people who already live in those accounts.

# Improved transactional and retention mails

We went over the transactional mails — the ones we send around deployments, billing, invites, and account events — for clearer copy and more consistent formatting. The retention mails that nudge inactive trials and apps got the same treatment.

Alongside that, there is a new contact preferences center where you decide which of these mails you want to receive. The essential ones (billing, security) always go out; everything else is yours to tune.

# Smaller improvements

• Pricing helpers and copy/paste — the pricing views gained more inline helpers, and there is a nicer copy/paste interface for the numbers you actually need.
• Rate limiting surfaced in the dashboard — SSH rate limiting is less verbose, and the current state is now visible in the dashboard instead of only showing up as terminal noise. We are still tuning the thresholds.
• Forms link to their objects — every list item inside a form now links to the object's own page, so you can jump from a picker straight to the app, team, or payment method you are looking at.
• Better handling for symlinks during deployment - Symlinks will get resolved when possible.

# Old platform

# MySQL 8.4 migration

The MySQL 8.4 upgrade we announced in May is underway on the old platform. If you run a database there, check the upgrade plan for the timeline and what to verify on your end.

# Outlook

A lot of the work right now is quieter grunt work toward the final release, so the next big features are still a couple of months out. Two of them are worth a preview:

Observability. We started building hosting metrics directly into the dashboard — like the old platform had, but much improved. This is tightly coupled with logs, which we want to pipe straight to the browser as well. Together they will make the platform feel a lot more complete.

Public API and infrastructure as code. Our public API is in early stages. Related to it, we are revisiting a fortrabbit.json (or .yml, or maybe both) project file, so app configuration can live in your repository instead of only in the dashboard.

As always, feedback is welcome.