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January/February 2026 Updates

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Welcome to 2026! Here’s what we’ve been working on.

We skipped our January update; too many features were in flight and we wanted to ship them properly before writing about them. So this is a combined January/February edition!

We’re starting off with new observability features in the UI, Add-On backups, and a small update to our Tailscale integration.

End of the year 2025 for Runway

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Here’s what we were up to in the last two months of the year — the theme was tidying up and laying groundwork for exciting features in 2026 ahead!

October 2025 - Updates

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

October was primarily about clean-up and sweeping behind the scenes. We are in the middle of transitioning some infrastructure software to a new thing.

Unfortunately the old thing was deprecated and gets no love from the vendor anymore. And the new thing is exactly the same with new syntax and new unknown bugs included.

September 2025 - Updates

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000

The September 2025 update is all about simplifying your setups!

August 2025 - Updates

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

If AI could write these news — we’d always post them on time.

It’s the month of September already and we are a bit overdue — but reading (and writing) this made me happy personally, as we shipped a ton of new things.

July 2025 - Updates

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

We’ve been busy this month with improvements to our GitHub integration, static buildpack, expanded authentication options, and UI refreshes. Here’s what we shipped in July, 2025.

June 2025 - Updates

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

July’s already upon us — summer’s here, days are longer; time to catch up on what kept us busy in June!

May 2025 - Updates

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Welcome to June — a good time to reflect on what we’ve been working on recently.

UI Improvements

We’ve started rolling out design updates to the Runway UI. If you log in now, you’ll notice a new unified navigation bar at the top and a cleaner footer. Everything related to your account — including your profile, password changes, session management, and the legal bits like the data protection agreement — is now always available in the top-right menu.

DDoS, $98k, and a Firebase Bill: A Cautionary Tale

Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Think of Reddit what you will, but it’s an interesting source of news. I’ve mostly been a reader, and recently discovered that I’ve been on the platform for 18 years — at least according to my profile. That’s probably somewhat accurate.

Anyway — I like how Reddit occasionally surfaces content in areas (Reddit subreddits) I’ve never interacted with — or at least, very rarely. Over the weekend, I received one of those notifications titled: DDoS 98k Firebase Bill Guy: The Billing Support Story.

April 2025 - Updates

Wed, 07 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

It’s been a busy few weeks at Runway. We’ve rolled out several new features and updates aimed at giving developers more flexibility, transparency, and control. From instant plan changes in the dashboard, to built-in support for static site generators like Hugo and mdBook, to our commitment to EU-based hosting and joining the EuroStack initiative - here’s a quick look at what’s new.

New in Runway: Change App Plans on the Fly

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

We’ve just made Runway a lot more flexible: you can now change your app’s plan at any time, directly from the command line.

Apps on Runway always run under specific plans that define their resource reservations and limits — like memory and CPU. What’s new is that you can now switch between plans instantly, whenever your needs change.

March 2025 - Updates

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Here’s a joke for the day:

“How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb?”
One. Because we are efficient and have no sense of humor.

😅🫣

April Fools’ Day is here, and while the internet is full of fake announcements, we’re keeping it real. No jokes—just solid updates from March 2025.

February 2025 - Updates

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000

A quick update from Runway: March is already here, so let’s take a look at what happened with Runway in February 2025.

January 2025 - Updates

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Hello friends!

Time flies and February is already upon us, so here’s what we were working on in January, 2025! Learn more about: Runway Multiplayer, Deno support and updates to the DBaaS!

Happy New Year! 🎉

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

November/December was a busy time at Runway — mostly for cleanups and also some well-earned (personal!) downtime after another turbulent ~~2020~~ 2024. As a result, this update is a bit light on user-facing features. However, we made significant progress behind the scenes by improving our internal dashboards, refining our monitoring and alerting systems, and test-driving new infrastructure features from Kubernetes v1.31.x and beyond.

Post-Mortem: November 22nd–23rd, 2024

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0000

So — downtime.

The bad news: Login and registration on Runway experienced downtime. The good news: Your applications kept running.

Let’s break down what happened and what we learned.

An Evening Of Hackery

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This is a personal piece.

Recently, I’ve noticed a rise in people using Bluesky. For me, it’s been active enough to warrant checking in more than a few times a month — to discover interesting conversations and explore what’s happening.

One thing I miss from Twitter is the variety of bot accounts I used to follow. Many of them posted feeds or curated content, making it much easier to stay informed (especially since I’m notoriously bad at keeping up with RSS feeds). Long story short, Bluesky has an API, and they explicitly encourage bot accounts. So, I figured — why not hack something together?

October 2024 - Updates

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Here’s a look at what we worked on for Runway in October 2024:

S3 Storage: created an internal service for provisioning S3 accounts in our backend
App Processes and Status: runway app ps
The Runway Buildpack Stack
Multiplayer v1.1
Expanded Logs: runway app logs
Runway CLI Updates
Progress on DBaaS

Let’s dive into each update and see what it brings to the table!

September 2024 - Updates

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000

In the spirit of “better late than never,” here is what we have been busy with in September 2024.

We upgraded our build pipeline (for buildpacks) to use Ubuntu Jammy as a base. For those who can’t keep up with the funny names Linux distributions hand out these days and why this is relevant: Ubuntu Jammy is the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu, which we use to turn your application code into a container.

New: Docs & Buildpacks

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Here’s an intermediate update on what’s new at Runway during the month of September: Last week, we rolled out a major update to our buildpacks toolchain, now using Ubuntu Jammy as the base.

This update doesn’t just bring a refreshed base; it also includes the latest versions of all the buildpacks involved, plus up-to-date versions of key languages like NodeJS and PHP.

August 2024 - Updates

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000

First off — huge thanks to everyone who joined and deployed this month! We had to create a new coupon code to keep registrations rolling. 🚀

How to containerize

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:00:00 +0000

It’s been an exciting week for us with Runway — thank you to everyone who joined, deployed apps and gave us feedback. :) We appreciate you!

As I am updating the documentation, I wanted to elaborate a bit on containerization as I realize that we likely cannot always keep up with all the changes that frameworks and projects make on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Platform as a Service

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome! In this blog post we’ll briefly explain what a Platform as a Service is, why we think the current state of the industry is not good enough and needs fixing, and how we’re doing exactly that with Runway, our new offering made by developers for developers.

July 2024 - Updates

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the first week of August! Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to:

June 2024 Update

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Here’s what happened in the past weeks:

May 2024 Update

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Hello, hello — a little over due. But here’s what happened in terms of RUNWAY in May.

First off, thanks to Ally Long we made get strides, so let me introduce Astrocat 🐈‍⬛ (see the page’s logo!) and our brand new logo that’s been developing. :-) Over the next couple weeks we’ll roll out the changes to our web UI and landing pages — so stay tuned.

April 2024 Update

Sun, 05 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Time flies — and things don’t always go according to the master plan when you’re bootstrapping.

Needless to say: we are on our way thanks to lots of friends and colleagues who gave us their time and provided us with feedback and input thus far. Sometimes also just by listening to us complain.