Everything new
in Hostess.

1. v0.3.0

   July 2026

   Reach your databases from anywhere, and share services with your team — no VPN required.

   New

   Public database connections

   Postgres and Redis now expose standard connection strings over TLS on their own dedicated hostnames. Connect from your laptop, a CI job, or another platform — no port-forwarding required.

   New

   Team-only services with SSO

   Set a service to “team” and your whole org can reach it after signing in once with Hostess SSO. No VPN, no shared passwords — and you can set visibility per port on multi-port services.

   Improved

   Postgres you can actually operate

   Connection pooling, a built-in SQL console, query insights, declarative extensions, and point-in-time restore back to any moment you choose.

   Improved

   Redis, upgraded

   Per-database users for scoped databases, plus configurable version, memory limit, and eviction policy — all from your config.

   • NewDark mode across the dashboard
   • NewNew CLI commands: hostess environments, plus domains update and verify
   • NewCancel or delete a deployment straight from the dashboard
   • ImprovedRetarget a custom domain to a different service without redeploying
   • ImprovedHistorical metrics for Postgres and Redis
   • ImprovedLarge lists stay smooth at scale — logs, keys, and traces

2. v0.2.0

   June 2026

   From a deploy engine to a production platform: Git-driven deploys, custom domains, and insights.

   New

   Deploy on push with GitHub

   Connect a repository and Hostess builds and deploys on every push. Every pull request gets its own preview URL that tears itself down when the PR closes.

   New

   Custom domains

   Bring your own domain with automatic TLS. Add it, verify it, and you’re live — certificates are provisioned and renewed for you.

   New

   Service insights

   Built-in metrics and distributed-trace waterfalls for your services, plus an interactive FastAPI playground to exercise your API right from the dashboard.

   Improved

   Faster, more reliable builds

   Source builds with streamed, real-time logs so you can watch every step of a deploy as it happens.

   • NewDeployment jobs and file mounts — run migrations, seed scripts, and one-off tasks as part of a deploy
   • NewPersistent storage for custom services — attach durable volumes that survive redeploys
   • NewSign in to the CLI from your browser — no more pasting tokens
   • NewHosted documentation at docs.hostess.sh
   • ImprovedOrdered multi-service rollouts
   • ImprovedDeploy status that never times out on slow builds

3. v0.1.0

   March 2026

   The first release — deploy and run your entire stack from a single file.

   New

   Deploy any stack from hostess.yml

   Next.js, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, or any container image. Hostess provisions, routes, scales, and wires everything together automatically from one config file.

   New

   Managed Postgres and Redis

   Production databases in a single line of config, with automatic backups and restore. Reference them by name and connection strings resolve for you at deploy time.

   New

   Automatic service wiring

   Every service gets a stable URL. Reference another service and its credentials and URLs are injected automatically — no env-file juggling.

   • NewPer-service deploys with live environment state
   • NewScoped database groups — multiple logical databases in one instance
   • Newhostess connect for local access to your managed databases
   • NewOrganizations with roles — owner, developer, and viewer
   • NewSign in with GitHub or email
   • NewPersonal access tokens for CI and scripting
   • NewService dashboards with streaming logs and metrics

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