# Platform updates, August 2026

Source: https://blog.fortrabbit.com/platform-updates-august-2026
Created: 2026-08-27
Author: Frank Lämmer
Tags: changelog

> More temp space, log downloads that finish, a handful of dashboard fixes, and a website that lost its hosting guide.


## Platform and infra

- **More temp space** - `/tmp` now holds 1 GiB.
- **Log downloads stability** - Downloading a large log archive now more stable.

## Smaller improvements

- **Jobs limit checked up front** — scaling the jobs component down below the number of jobs an app runs used to fail somewhere down the line.
- **Environment variables keep their order** — the sort order set in the dashboard is saved and respected.
- **Unsubscribe from retention mails** — the nudges for idle trials and apps have their own switch in the contact preferences now.
- **Firewall rules de-dupes** — a custom rule for a port that is in the default list is rejected instead of quietly doing nothing.
- **Remove a VATIN** — it could be added and changed, but not removed. Fixed.
- **A new loading screen** — first paint respects dark mode instead of flashing white.

## Website and docs

We retired the hosting guide on our homepage. It had grown into a comparison site living inside our marketing site, which is a strange place for it: nobody trusts a host to rank its competitors. It moved out to [findhost.app](https://findhost.app), a register of web hosts with no stake in the outcome — there is a [post about it](/findhost-a-register-of-web-hosts).

Behind that, a stack of unglamorous fixes: search titles and meta descriptions, structured data for the pricing FAQ, smaller page payloads, and the plain Markdown mirror of every page. Half the links in our `llms.txt` pointed at files the build never wrote.

## Green hosting

No real progress on the badge situation from last month. We carried the sustainability proof ourselves and got re-listed with the Green Web Foundation. The problem is that Green Web Foundation is not accepting AWS IPs to show as green energy, as long as AWS refuses to name them a contact. So projects hosted on fortrabbit no longer show as green with external checks (they usually depend on Green Web Foundation).

On top of that we have to acknowledge that all hyperscalers now heavily invest in AI data centers powered by "natural gas", which makes me sad.

## Outlook

- **Metrics** - Logs landed in July, metrics are the other half. We are working out what a first version in the dashboard looks like. Last big gap before general availability.
- **Performance** - Still putting the new platform through load and scaling tests, still tuning.
- **Agentic capabilities** - The reason this post is rather short, MCP, API and CLI will be released very soon.

The new platform is still in BETA and we are working towards general availability. Everything above is tested, none of it is battle proven. If something breaks, tell us and we will get on it.