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September 10, 2026

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Redesigned data manager

The Data tab for databases now organizes the object browser and its contents into a single workspace, with a clearer hierarchy and better use of space on desktop and mobile.SQL tables, MongoDB collections and Redis keys got easier-to-find actions, explicit filters, compact summaries and simple pagination with range, page size and current position. The repeated header and unnecessary color highlights were also removed.

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Fix: silent console when reinstalling dependencies during a fast restart

When restarting an application after changing its runtime (or any restart that reinstalls dependencies), if the installation finished quickly the dashboard console showed nothing of it — no start notice, no installer lines. The app came back online already ready, with no explanation on screen in the meantime.The console now detects when an installation is in progress during a restart and streams its logs live, the same way it already did when creating an application.

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Change the language of an existing application

Previously, choosing the wrong language when creating an application was final: the only way out was recreating the app from scratch, which erased its volume and entire deploy history. The runtime can now be changed at any time, under the app’s General → Environment settings.Before confirming the switch, the dashboard shows the real risks of the change:
  • it only takes effect from the next restart — the running container stays on the old runtime until then;
  • the entry file and start command don’t change automatically: an index.js written for Node won’t run as a Python application, for example;
  • the runtime version resets to the recommended version for the new language, because the old version may not exist there;
  • no project file is deleted by this operation.
The new runtime’s dependencies are installed automatically on the first restart after the switch — that already happened and still does. What was missing was space: the old runtime’s packages (a node_modules folder after switching to Python, for example) stayed on the volume taking up plan quota, with no automatic reinstall or removal. Now, in the “restart now?” dialog that appears after saving the switch, an optional checkbox lets you delete known artifact directories from the language being left behind before installing the new ones — never a project code file.

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Snapshots keep the project name

Every snapshot now keeps the name the project had at the moment it was taken. In the snapshot list, opening a project shows, besides the date, the name it used on that date — useful when the project was renamed and a two-week-old snapshot belongs to an “api-staging” that’s now called something else. When the name hasn’t changed, nothing is repeated: only the difference shows.Snapshots of already-deleted projects also stop showing up as a code. Previously, deleting the project removed the name from the list, leaving only the identifier; now the last known name stays, with a marker that the project no longer exists.Snapshots taken before this change remain without their own name — today’s name wasn’t written retroactively onto old dates, because that would record information that wasn’t true on that day.