Happy Friday everyone, we have a few large announcements this changelog related to Metro.

Metro is entering Public Beta, which means that anyone can “Cmd+K Metrofy” a project. To make it clear this is still a beta, we’ve added a little beta badge to the command and relevant parts of the UI. We have spent the last month and a half refining the experience for everyone and want to thank everyone who has offered their time providing feedback. 

In the next few weeks, Metro will be leaving beta and become the default project view for everyone. Since it is a major change, we will be laying out how we expect to conduct the rollout in the following changelog. We feel it will be a massive improvement on the existing product and what it will allow you to accomplish. Let us know if you agree on our 

The previous mobile Metro experience was less than ideal. The canvas didn’t work well on small touch screens and it was difficult to get where you wanted be (some of the actions were even impossible). Well- this week we spent some time updating the UIs for mobile and making the experience as smooth as possible. You can now view project activity and access the command palette right on your phone. There are still some changes and polish we would like to add, so please 

Previously when projects were mapped to only one service, it was obvious to infer how environment variables would behave. However, when you have multiple services, the risk of overwriting variables could occur and cause issues.

Adding global project variables will take some additional effort and feedback to nail the experience. In the meantime, Metro project variables will be service scoped. Plugin variables will still be automatically provided to all deployments. We would definitely appreciate your comments and concerns in our Discord.

Priority Boarding: The Journey to Get There

Improvements to start commands for more consistent behavior

Dashboard load speed is slightly faster. We have a lot of performance updates we want to do in the coming week(s), but this is a start

Fixed issue where projects were not available when command palette was first opened after page load

Added the ability to configure the Railway GitHub app from the new service command palette

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Metro Public Beta, New Mobile Interface, and Improved Start Commands

Changelog #0066