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September 17, 2026

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Auto-restart on every plan

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What changed

Automatic restart is no longer a feature gated behind a plan — it’s now the default for every application, on every plan, including Free. There’s no longer a dashboard control to turn it on or off; it’s simply always on.
  • A crashed container comes back on its own, on Free just like any other plan.
  • Crash-loop protection stays the same: 5 crashes in 10 minutes disable automatic restart for 24 hours, with a minimum 1-hour cooldown between restarts and a minimum of 60 seconds online for the container to count as stable.
  • The AUTORESTART field in vertracloud.config is still accepted, but now ignored — it no longer needs to be present in the file.
  • In the API, the auto_restart field remains in application responses and is now always true; the autorestart field in the creation body is still accepted for compatibility, but ignored.