Changelog

Let your agent debug production

  • Your coding agent can now debug your production apps. With the new specific query command, your agent can fire ad-hoc SQL against your live logs, traces, and runtime metrics.

Health checks, faster deploys, volume metrics

  • Your coding agent can now configure health check endpoints in specific.hcl, which we will use to ensure your deployments don't break anything.
  • Service pages now show a volume usage chart, so you can tell at a glance how much storage you're using.
  • Environments can now be renamed from settings.
  • Deployment uploads are now noticeably faster, in particular for large projects.
  • You can now gate PR preview environments behind a GitHub label, in case you don't want one spun up for every PR.

Custom domains for everyone

  • It's now possible to configure custom domains through the CLI, which means your coding agent can handle it for you.
  • We bundled TimescaleDB into our managed Postgres, improving support for scalable timeseries use cases.

Deployment visibility

  • The deployment list now shows the source (git, CLI, or PR) and total duration of each deploy at a glance.
  • Deployment detail pages have live build and deploy timers, so you can watch the seconds tick by.

Storage in the local dashboard

  • When you run specific dev, the local dashboard now has a storage explorer where you can browse the buckets in your local environment.

Command palette & logs

  • Hit ⌘K anywhere in the dashboard to open a command palette and jump to anything with your keyboard.
  • When you run specific dev, the local dashboard now has a log viewer.

Settings, billing, and protected environments

  • We added a "Usage" section to the organization settings which breaks down your usage over time.
  • We added a feature that lets you mark an environment as "protected", which means we will automatically enforce authentication for it without any updates to the code. Perfect for internal apps.
  • You can now configure automatic onboarding for your organization, so new teammates are automatically added without manual invites.

Deployment status

  • Run specific status to get details on the current state of your project in production.

Jobs & workflow controls

  • Use the new Jobs primitive to run one-off commands against any service. Great for one-off scripts and backfills.
  • You can now trigger Temporal workflows manually from the dashboard.
  • You can also terminate a running workflow from the UI, and the timeline view got clearer too.
  • The pg_trgm extension is now available in our bundled dev Postgres.

Ephemeral preview environments

  • We added support for preview environments. Enable it through the dashboard and we will spin up a copy of your infra for each pull request, including a full copy of your databases and storage.
  • You can also run specific deploy --preview from your own computer to get an ephemeral testing environment spun up.

Multi-environment & horizontal scaling

  • Services are now multi-environment-aware, so you can promote a deployment from staging to prod with one click. When you create a new environment, we copy over the secrets and config from a source environment so you don't have to.
  • Environments can now also be deleted
  • Services can now scale horizontally automatically based on load. Open your service in the dashboard and go to "Scale" to configure.

Invites, volume scaling, and a blog

  • You can now resize persistent volumes from the service scale tab.

Deployment metadata

  • Every deployment now tracks its git commit, branch, and source (git push, CLI, or PR), and shows them in the dashboard.

Temporal workflows, billing upgrades, get-started flow

  • We added a Temporal workflow inspector to the dashboard. You can view workflow runs and dive into the details with a split-panel view.
  • The log viewer got severity indicators, JSON parsing, and clickable rows that expand to show full details.

Built for coding agents

  • The specific CLI has been overhauled so that an agent can use it end-to-end. This means you can ask your agent to build something and it will autonomously sign in, spin up a local environment to test, and finally deploy the project to production.

Postgres extensions

  • Our managed Postgres now supports pgvector for vector embeddings.
  • Postgres now includes ICU collation support, so text sorting and search work better across languages.

Teams

  • Organizations now support multiple users. Invite teammates and collaborate on projects by clicking the project switcher in the top-left and then "Organization settings".

Container images & dashboard polish

  • You can now deploy a service from a pre-built container image, not just from source.
  • Builds support a custom Dockerfile if you need fine-grained control.
  • You can view the raw version of your specific.hcl directly from the dashboard.

Persistent volumes

  • You can now attach persistent volumes to your services for stateful workloads, like OpenClaw or databases.

A new tunnel server

  • We rebuilt our tunneling server, so specific dev --tunnel now serves your services snappier and more reliable.

String interpolation in HCL

  • specific.hcl now supports string interpolation, so you can reference other resources inline without annoying workarounds.