What's New

We've precompiled the newest Ruby version, 3.4.4, to make deployments faster.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/05/14/ruby-3-4-4-released/

We're upgrading to Stripe's latest Billing Meters API for tracking usage in Hatchbox. Pricing and everything remains the same, we're just updating our internal tracking to use Stripe's new APIs now that Usage Records are deprecated. Your next invoice will begin tracking hours of usage rather than seconds of usage. This will help make pricing a bit easier to understand on invoices.

If you notice any issues, let us know!

We've added a new Rollback feature to Hatchbox applications.

For successful deployments, you will see a Rollback button on the App log view. Clicking this will trigger a new deployment using the same commit sha as the successful deploy.

This allows us to safely handle any missing language versions or dependencies that may have been removed since the deployment.

Hatchbox will no longer symlink the node_modules directory on deploy. Npm has detected symlinks and replaced them with a normal directory for a while now. This also fixes an issue with pnpm where it does not correctly handle this directory bring symlinked.

If you run into any issues, send us a message and we will get it fixed!

We've just precompiled the latest Ruby versions 3.2.8 and 3.1.7. Both contain security fixes so we recommend updating immediately.

See the Ruby blog for more details: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/03/26/ruby-3-2-8-released/

Ruby 3.4.2 has just been released and is now precompiled for Hatchbox deployments.

Check out the changes in Ruby 3.4.2 here: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/02/14/ruby-3-4-2-released/

We've compiled the newest Ruby release, 3.3.7, so it's ready to use on your servers.

This is a bug fix release. See the Ruby blog for more details: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/01/15/ruby-3-3-7-released/

Today, we're releasing an update that changes over to using the Caddyfile format for all apps on Hatchbox. 

Customizing Caddy has been historically painful because we've used the JSON syntax to talk to Caddy's API. The JSON format is what's used internally by Caddy, but it's not very user friendly. We've refactored the internals of Hatchbox to use the Caddyfile syntax and provided some variables to include our default configurations but also make it easy to mix and match your own as needed.

Clusters have a Caddyfile option for defining global options. Apps have a Caddyfile option for how requests are processed for that specific app. These are then combined when the Caddy config is uploaded to your server.

We will help you convert it over to the Caddyfile syntax if you've customized your apps already. Our plan is to get everyone moved over and get rid of the complex JSON once and for all. Send us a message and we'll help get you migrated.

We've updated to the latest version of Caddy. 🎉

Caddy 2.9.0 adds a couple features but is primarily focused on refinements and bug fixes. This release should be fully backwards compatible with 2.8.4 so you shouldn't see any issues with this upgrade.

Click Configure on your servers to update to the latest version.

We've refactored our deployment process to make renaming applications faster. Rather than symlinking to full paths, we're now using relative symlinks. This allows us to move an application to a new directory and update the running processes to point to the new directory. 

We no longer need to remove any directories which preserves your application's uploaded files, local sqlite databases, and removing the need for an additional deployment after renaming. Thanks to these improvements, renaming your application only takes a few seconds now.

We've precompiled the latest version of Ruby so it's ready to go for new deployments.

See the release notes for more details: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/09/ruby-3-3-4-released/

Want to run a script to notify Slack or another service about failed deployments? Now you can with failed deploy scripts.

When a deployment fails, the script will run on your primary server which you can use to send API requests or anything else you might want to do. 

You can now choose names for your databases. Previously, we auto-generated database names that were quick and easy but hard to differentiate. Now you can choose the name to help easily differentiate between databases.

Two new versions of Ruby were recently released and we've precompiled them so they're ready to use with Hatchbox!

See the release notes for more details: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/30/ruby-3-3-2-released/

With the latest Ubuntu LTS release out last month and running smoothly, we've updated Hatchbox to start creating new servers with Ubuntu 24.04 now.

Redis.io has finally updated their repositories with Ubuntu Noble 24.04 LTS support. We've updated our configuration to use this repository to provide the latest Redis version. Hit configure on your Ubuntu 24.04 server(s) to use the new repository.

Caddy now includes a DNSimple plugin for handling wildcard SSL validation with LetsEncrypt. We've recompiled Caddy with this new plugin and added DNSimple to the supported DNS providers list so you can now use it for wildcard SSL certificates.

Doing fancy things with Caddy? You can now supply your own URL for your custom Caddy executables. Edit your Cluster and add the URL for it to be installed on your servers during provisioning.

We recommend using our Caddy Builder script as a starting place to make sure you include any necessary DNS providers for wildcard SSL support. You can also compile specific versions of Caddy with additional plugins as needed.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS was recently released and we've updated Hatchbox to support this new version.

The official Redis.io Ubuntu repository has not been updated yet. If you're using Redis on Ubuntu 24.04, it will install the Ubuntu maintained version until the Redis repository is updated.

We've precompiled the latest Ruby versions which include several security fixes.

See the Ruby release notes for more details.