Changelog
The latest PlanetScale features and product launches. Get the RSS feed.
Backup restore checklist
Today, we’re launching a checklist of commonly performed activities right after restoring a backup. Branches restored from a backup now come with a helpful guide on how to replace your existing default branch with the new branch. →
Google Cloud Provider support
We just introduced Google Cloud Provider (GCP) support for select GCP regions. GCP support is currently in beta, so some PlanetScale features are limited on branches and databases created in GCP regions. →
Complete query collection
We’ve introduced a new addition to Insights, our in-dashboard query monitoring tool. You can now enable complete query collection, which allows you to see the raw query data in query deep dives and EXPLAIN statements. →
Gated Deployments
We just released Gated Deployments, which gives you more control over your schema change deployments. Instead of automatically applying schema changes after you deploy, you can now choose to hold off on cutting over until you're ready. →
Backups UX refresh
Today, we’re launching a new view for managing backups for PlanetScale databases. Backups can now be viewed across all Production and Development databases on a single page. →
New region: London
We’ve added a new region: AWS eu-west-2 (London). You can now create databases and branches in this region in the dashboard using the region selector or with the PlanetScale CLI with region slug aws-eu-west-2. →
PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
We just released the new PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript. →
Teams
You can now easily manage database administrator access to one or multiple databases with Teams. Head to your Organization Settings page, click "Teams", and start adding members and databases. →
Password roles
Today, we’re launching password roles for PlanetScale Databases. PlanetScale passwords can now be created with more granular control over which operations they can perform. →
Datadog integration
Today, we’re launching the Datadog integration. PlanetScale can push now metrics to Datadog to assist your team with understanding your database usage and performance. →
PlanetScale Insights
Today, we’re introducing the next iteration of our Query Statistics tool: PlanetScale Insights. →
PlanetScale Connect
We’ve introduced a new feature called PlanetScale Connect that makes it easier to safely extract, load, and transform your data. →
PlanetScale Portals
Today, we’re introducing PlanetScale Portals. With Portals, you can add read-only regions to your production database in any available region. →
New plan + pricing updates
Today, we’re introducing the Teams plan to better accommodate teams that require more resources and higher performance than the Scaler plan. →
Three more regions
We have added three more regions across the globe. Now you can deploy databases on AWS in Frankfurt (eu-central-1), Sydney (ap-southeast-2), and São Paulo (sa-east-1). →
Revert a schema change
We’ve introduced a new feature that allows you to revert a schema change with no data loss. →
Updates to our pricing
We’ve updated our Developer and Scaler plans to better accommodate user needs. →
Database sleeping
We’ve made an update that may affect databases on the free Developer plan. Inactive databases may be put into sleep mode after 30 days of inactivity. All data will be backed up and stored, but you will not be able to connect to the database. →
Database Imports
The new PlanetScale Database Import feature makes it easy and painless to migrate your data from an existing internet accessible MySQL database into a PlanetScale database. With just a connection to your database, you can try out PlanetScale in front of your existing database and then import your data into PlanetScale. When you’re ready, switch traffic to your PlanetScale database without any downtime. Note: this feature is in limited beta. →
PlanetScale is GA
PlanetScale is now GA and ready for your production workloads. We launched our beta in May, and since then we’ve been hard at work to ensure that we offer the security, performance, and reliability you expect from a database platform. Read more about our journey to GA. →
PlanetScale Managed Cloud
We’ve launched PlanetScale Managed Cloud, our enterprise offering for customers who need to host their data. We offer a unique managed experience — we deploy PlanetScale in our customer’s AWS account and manage it directly using a sub-account. This provides the full managed experience to our customers, while meeting their strict compliance requirements. Read more about PlanetScale Managed Cloud in this blog post. →
Updates to our pricing
We’ve updated our Scaler plan to make it a better option for our users. As a part of these changes, we’ll be including 500 million rows read, 50 million rows written, and 25 GB of storage in the plan and charging a monthly fee of $29. For usage and storage above the included amounts, we’ll be charging $1.50 per 10 million row reads, $1.50 per 1 million row writes, and $1.25 per GB of storage. →
Database Administrator role
To make it easier to fine-tune access control in your PlanetScale organization, we’ve added a new role: Database Administrator. →
Branch promotion to production
We’ve made a few changes to how branches work in PlanetScale. Now whenever you create a database, your main branch will be a development branch by default, allowing you to start making changes to the schema instantaneously, without needing to use deploy requests. When you're done hacking around and ready to make your database production-ready, you can promote your branch to production, which enables high-availability and direct DDL protection (sorry Little Bobby Tables). Additionally, you can promote multiple branches if you so desire, so if you want to have a staging database branch that’s also protected, we can do that for you! →
Set a default organization
We’ve made it easier to manage your PlanetScale organizations by allowing users to set a default organization. Once set, users will land in the default organization every time they sign in. →