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Changelog — April 17, 2026
Custom VM Sizes, Git Speed Up, Universal Logs Dashboard and more.
By Ben Swerdlow
April 17, 2026
This week Freestyle got faster and more powerful. We launched custom VM sizes which allow users to get up to 32 vCPUs and 32 GB of RAM (the most powerful on the market by a factor of 2x) in 400ms. We fixed a series of bugs related to docker rate limits and scaling VMs. We majorly upgraded git with massive performance increases throughout every part of the system — the serverless APIs, pulls and LFS all saw QOL updates along with indexing that made large git repos ~7x faster. We also launched the universal logs dashboard which is a single place to see everything going on in Freestyle.
The specific public changes that landed this week are as follows:
| Area | Change | Details |
|---|---|---|
| API | Custom VM sizes | Configure vCPU, RAM, and disk per VM up to 32 vCPUs / 32 GB RAM, still launching in ~400ms. |
| API | VM resize | Adjust vCPU, memory, and rootfs on existing VMs without recreating them. |
| API | Command timeouts | Set a max execution duration on commands; timeouts return HTTP 408 with any captured output. |
| API | Docker credentials | Pass dockerCredentials on VM and snapshot creation to pull from private registries. |
| SDK | Docker credentials | dockerCredentials available on vms.create and vms.snapshots.ensure. |
| SDK | Postgres integration | Declare a Postgres server, databases, and SQL scripts that bake into your VM snapshot. |
| API | Observability logs query | Query account-wide logs through the Observability API. |
| Dashboard | Universal Logs | Unified account-wide log view across every service, with service-level filtering. |
| Dashboard | Git repo search | Search repositories directly from the dashboard. |
| Dashboard | Deployment fetch | Fetch a deployment directly from the dashboard. |
| Dashboard | Easy clone | One-click clone command from the repository page. |
| Dashboard | Cron + deployment creation | Create a new deployment while creating a cron job, or select an existing deployment. |
| Dashboard | SDK playground | Experiment with the SDK directly in the dashboard playground. |
| Dashboard | Dockerfile snapshot creation | Create snapshots from Dockerfiles directly on the snapshots page. |
| Platform | Git commit indexing | Auto-generated after pushes — commit-history queries ~7x faster on large repos. |
| Platform | Git pulls & LFS | Throughput improvements across pulls and LFS transfers. |