Change log

Pricing and free-tier changes

Free tiers shrink, prices move and plans get renamed. Each entry is dated to when the change took effect or was announced (the entry says which) and links to the vendor’s own notice.

2026

  • .com wholesale fee rises to $10.97

    Verisign announced on 2026-04-23 that the .com wholesale fee rises from $10.26 to $10.97 effective 2026-11-01. Cloudflare Registrar charges the registry price plus ICANN fee with no markup, so its .com price ($10.46 before) follows the new fee.

    Cloudflare Registrar Registrars Source ↗

  • .com price to rise to about $11.81

    Porkbun's knowledge base says its .com price will rise on 2026-11-01 at 04:00 UTC to approximately $11.81, from $11.08, after Verisign's wholesale increase (effective date).

    Porkbun Registrars Source ↗

  • Price increase on 226 Identity Digital extensions

    Namecheap announced higher registration, renewal and transfer prices on 226 Identity Digital TLDs effective 2026-10-06; for example .email renewal goes from $40.98 to $45.98 (effective date).

    Namecheap Registrars Source ↗

  • SQLAlchemy 2.1 released

    SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 requires Python 3.11, no longer installs greenlet by default, defaults to psycopg 3 and oracledb, and adds t-string SQL, CREATE VIEW and the mssql-python driver.

    SQLAlchemy ORMs Source ↗

  • Gemini 2.5 limited to existing users

    Announced 2026-09-18: access to Gemini 2.5 models is limited to active users; Google recommends newer models for new projects.

    Gemini API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Cockroach Continuum replaces Basic, Standard and Advanced for new organisations

    Effective 2026-09-15: new cloud organisations get Standard ($0.092/vCPU-hr in us-east-1) and Mission Critical ($0.162/vCPU-hr) editions and a 30-day, $400 trial; the new pricing page lists no free Basic plan. Existing customers keep their plans.

    CockroachDB Cloud (Cockroach Continuum) Databases Source ↗

  • Temporal Cloud drops the base plan fee for new sign-ups

    Around mid-September 2026 Temporal's pricing page switched its entry offer to pay-as-you-go with no base monthly fee, $50 per million actions and $150 of credit for 90 days, replacing the $100/month Essentials minimum; Business stays from $500/month. Date is approximate, from a Temporal staff post on 15 September 2026 and third-party coverage.

    Temporal Cloud Jobs and queues Source ↗

  • DeepSeek V4 Pro kept after planned end date

    DeepSeek says it will keep providing DeepSeek V4 Pro after 2026-09-14, with billing unchanged, in response to user demand.

    DeepSeek API AI APIs Source ↗

  • DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash launched with lower prices

    Announced 2026-09-10: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash released and API prices reduced accordingly; deepseek-flash is now $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M at peak. Legacy deepseek-v4-flash names are served by V4.1-Flash at the Flash price.

    DeepSeek API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Tailwind Plus closes to new customers

    Announced 9 September 2026: Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify and closing sign-ups for new Tailwind Plus and ui.sh customers; existing customers keep access and the open-source projects continue.

    Tailwind Plus UI libraries Source ↗

  • Claude Sonnet 5 keeps $2/$10 pricing

    Claude Sonnet 5's launch pricing of $2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens, announced as introductory through 2026-08-31, became the standard price; the increase to $3 / $15 scheduled for 2026-09-01 was cancelled. The announcement date is not stated.

    Claude API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Remote Config fetches become billable

    Effective 2026-09-01: on the Blaze plan, 100,000 fetches a day per project are free, then $0.06 per 10,000 requests. They were previously listed at no cost.

    Firebase Databases Source ↗

  • Remix 3 release candidate

    Released 31 August 2026: the first release candidate of the React-free Remix 3, with the stable release planned for 2 October 2026 at Remix Jam.

    Remix 3 Frameworks Source ↗

  • Waku 1.0 release candidate

    Released 25 August 2026: public APIs are fixed and unstable APIs explicitly marked, following the 1.0 alpha (December 2025) and beta (May 2026).

    Waku Frameworks Source ↗

  • DeepSeek adopts peak and off-peak pricing

    Announced 2026-08-13 with DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA: prices now have peak and off-peak rates, with off-peak (outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays) at half the peak price.

    DeepSeek API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Gemini 3.7 Flash launched at introductory price

    Announced 2026-08-13: Gemini 3.7 Flash at $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M tokens through 2026-12-31; the pricing page lists $1.50 / $7.50 from 2027-01-01 for 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 Flash.

    Gemini API AI APIs Source ↗

  • SolidStart to be retired in favour of Solid 2.0 start mode

    Announced 12 August 2026 with the Solid 2.0 release candidate: a start mode in the Solid Vite plugin replaces SolidStart; there will be no SolidStart 3.0, and existing apps get maintenance releases.

    SolidStart Frameworks Source ↗

  • Prisma 8 enters release candidate

    Prisma published v8.0.0-rc.1, a contract-first rewrite; GA is expected in October 2026. The plain prisma npm package now installs the v8 CLI, so Prisma 7 projects must pin prisma@7; Prisma 7 is supported for 18 months after 8 ships.

    Prisma ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • SolidStart v2 stable, Vinxi removed

    Released 4 August 2026: SolidStart v2 replaces Vinxi with Vite's Environment API and Nitro v3, and requires Node.js 24+ and Vite 8.

    SolidStart Frameworks Source ↗

  • New Amazon SES accounts default to the Essentials plan

    From July 21, 2026 (effective date), new SES accounts and account-region pairs with no SES use since June 1, 2025 start on the Essentials plan at $0.16 per 1,000 emails instead of a la carte pricing at $0.10 per 1,000; customers can switch to a la carte at any time.

    Amazon SES Transactional email Source ↗

  • SeaORM 2.0 stable

    SeaORM 2.0.0 shipped after 43 release candidates with a new entity format, smart entity loader, nested ActiveModel, RBAC, SeaQuery 1.0 and SQLx 0.9 (announced 27 July 2026).

    SeaORM ORMs Source ↗

  • Netlify adds Pro credit tiers with rollover

    Announced 14 July 2026: Pro teams can choose 3,000 to 20,000 monthly credits ($20 to $126/mo) instead of a fixed 3,000; tiers of 5,000 and above roll unused credits over for one cycle.

    Netlify PaaS Source ↗

  • Cloudflare Workflows adds per-step and storage billing

    Announced 7 July 2026, taking effect no earlier than 10 August 2026: Workers Paid includes 500,000 steps/month then $0.80 per 100,000, and 1 GB-month storage then $0.20/GB-month; Free gets 3,000 steps/day and is not charged. Requests and CPU billing are unchanged.

    Cloudflare Workflows Jobs and queues Source ↗

  • Honeycomb reprices Pro plan tiers

    Effective 2026-07-01: new Pro tiers bundle Time Series Metrics and AI features at $3.00 per million events (legacy $1.30), with four tiers up to 750M events; legacy customers keep their plan until 2026-12-31.

    Honeycomb Monitoring Source ↗

  • Storj simplifies to Standard and Advanced tiers

    Effective 1 July 2026: two tiers, Standard at $7/TB-month storage and Advanced at $10/TB-month, both with $7/TB egress (Standard egress was previously $20/TB), a 30-day minimum retention and 50 KB minimum object size.

    Storj Storage Source ↗

  • Wasabi pay-as-you-go rises to $7.99/TB

    Announced May 2026 and effective 1 July 2026: Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage pay-as-you-go went from $6.99 to $7.99 per TB-month in all regions; reserved capacity pricing is based on the new rate at renewal.

    Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Storage Source ↗

  • ZeptoMail pricing update for new sign-ups

    Zoho's pricing page announces updated ZeptoMail pricing for new sign-ups from July 1, 2026 (effective date). The long-standing rate was $2.50 per credit of 10,000 emails; the new rate was not shown on the page when checked on 2026-09-28.

    Zoho ZeptoMail Transactional email Source ↗

  • PrimeReact moves to the commercial PrimeUI licence

    Under the PrimeUI announcement (reported 28 June 2026), PrimeReact 11 and later ship as compiled packages under a Community/Commercial licence; Commercial is $599 per developer through 2026 and $799 from 2027. PrimeReact 10 and earlier stay MIT.

    PrimeReact UI libraries Source ↗

  • PrimeVue moves to the commercial PrimeUI licence

    PrimeTek announced PrimeUI (reported 28 June 2026): PrimeVue 5 and later are closed source, free only for eligible small organisations, otherwise $599 per developer (launch price). PrimeVue 4 and earlier stay MIT.

    PrimeVue UI libraries Source ↗

  • Bunny DNS drops query fees and becomes free

    Announced 2026-06-24: Bunny DNS no longer charges for queries and hosts up to 500 domains per account free, including smart records and health monitoring; the account-wide $1/month minimum still applies.

    Bunny CDN CDN and DNS Source ↗

  • MailerLite renames plans and updates prices and limits

    Effective date. Growing Business became Comfort and Advanced became Power, and MailerLite says prices and limits were updated at the same time, so sources using the old names are out of date. Comfort now starts at $12/mo and Power at $25/mo for 500 subscribers.

    MailerLite Email marketing Source ↗

  • Second 2026 Hetzner increase hits CPX and CCX plans

    Effective 15 June 2026 for new orders and resizes, CX and CAX plans rose about 30% to 38% (CX23 €3.99 to €5.49) while CPX and CCX plans rose about 2x to 2.7x (CPX22 €7.99 to €19.49, CCX13 €15.99 to €42.99). Existing servers keep their price until rescaled.

    Hetzner Cloud VPS Source ↗

  • Oracle halves Always Free Ampere A1 allowance

    Around 15 June 2026 Oracle updated its documentation to cut the Always Free Ampere A1 allowance from 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours (4 OCPUs, 24 GB RAM) to 1,500 and 9,000 (2 OCPUs, 12 GB RAM), without a public announcement.

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute VPS Source ↗

  • Radix Primitives releases resume

    After no releases since 13 August 2025, Radix published a release on 6 June 2026 with new composition APIs and fixes, followed by further releases in June and July 2026.

    Radix UI UI libraries Source ↗

  • Claude Opus 4.1 deprecated

    Announced 2026-06-05: claude-opus-4-1-20250805 was retired on the Claude API on 2026-08-05, replaced by Claude Opus 4.8.

    Claude API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Angular moves to yearly majors with 24-month support

    From Angular v22 (released 3 June 2026) there is one major release every 12 months with 12 months active support and 12 months LTS; previously majors came every 6 months with 18 months total support.

    Angular Frameworks Source ↗

  • Free plan loses email template editing on default SMTP

    Effective 2026-06-03: new free projects that use Supabase's default SMTP can no longer customise auth email templates; existing projects keep theirs.

    Supabase Databases Source ↗

  • Gemini 2.0 Flash shut down

    Effective 2026-06-01: Gemini 2.0 Flash models were shut down; Google directs users to Gemini 3.5 and 3.1 models.

    Gemini API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Zeabur adjusts dedicated server and VPS prices

    New monthly prices for servers bought through Zeabur (all partner providers) took effect on 1 June 2026; the change page lists old and new prices per plan.

    Zeabur PaaS Source ↗

  • Polar introduces paid plans; new sellers start at 5% + 50¢

    Organizations created from May 27, 2026 start on Starter at 5% + 50¢ (previously 4% + 40¢ plus 0.5% on subscriptions), with Pro, Growth and Scale plans at $20, $100 and $400 a month lowering rates to 3.4% + 30¢. Older organizations keep the old rate.

    Polar Payments Source ↗

  • TypeORM reaches 1.0 after ten years

    TypeORM 1.0.0 removed long-deprecated APIs and ended the 0.3.x era under maintainers who took over at the end of 2024; 1.1.0 followed on 13 July 2026.

    TypeORM ORMs Source ↗

  • SQLx 0.9 released; repository moves to transact-rs

    SQLx 0.9.0 added sqlx.toml, new runtimes and the SqlSafeStr requirement for query strings; the repository then moved from LaunchBadge to the transact-rs GitHub organisation.

    SQLx ORMs Source ↗

  • Backblaze B2 storage rises to $6.95/TB, API calls become free

    Announced 17 March 2026 and effective 1 May 2026: pay-as-you-go storage went from $6 to $6.95 per TB-month and standard API calls became free for all customers. 3x free egress was unchanged.

    Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Storage Source ↗

  • Drizzle ORM 1.0 reaches release candidate

    drizzle-orm v1.0.0-rc.1 added opt-in JIT row mappers and Effect v4 support, and brought breaking changes to the casing API and removed RQB v1 for Postgres. 1.0 final had not shipped by 29 September 2026.

    Drizzle ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • DeepSeek V4 released; legacy model names retired

    Announced 2026-04-24: V4 Pro and Flash models introduced, and the legacy deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner names were set to be discontinued three months later.

    DeepSeek API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Render replaces per-seat plans with flat workspace plans and cuts included bandwidth

    Announced and effective for new workspaces 23 April 2026 (legacy workspaces moved on 1 August 2026): Pro is $25/month flat (was Professional at $19 per member), Scale $499 (was Organization at $29 per member). Included bandwidth fell from 100 GB to 5 GB on Hobby and from 500 GB to 25 GB on Pro, with overage now $0.15/GB instead of 100 GB blocks.

    Render PaaS Source ↗

  • Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 deprecated

    Announced 2026-04-14: claude-sonnet-4-20250514 and claude-opus-4-20250514 were retired on the Claude API on 2026-06-15.

    Claude API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Material UI v9 and MUI X pricing and licensing change

    On 8 April 2026 Material UI jumped from v7 to v9 to share a version with MUI X, and MUI X Pro and Premium moved to application-based licensing with updated prices; priority support became Enterprise-only.

    Material UI (MUI) UI libraries Source ↗

  • Business plan and self-serve pricing changes

    Announced (rolling out from May 2026): a Business plan with a $2,500/mo minimum, and file bandwidth replaced by data egress at $0.12/GB.

    Convex Databases Source ↗

  • Gemini Flex and Priority tiers

    Announced 2026-04-01: new Flex (about half price, lower priority) and Priority (higher price) inference tiers alongside Standard and Batch.

    Gemini API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Hetzner raises cloud prices for all servers

    Effective 1 April 2026 (announced in February), Hetzner raised cloud and dedicated prices by roughly 30% or more for new and existing servers; the CX23 went from €2.99 to €3.99 a month.

    Hetzner Cloud VPS Source ↗

  • Hetzner Object Storage base price rises to €6.49

    Effective 1 April 2026 (announced 19 February 2026), the monthly base in Germany and Finland rose from €4.99 to €6.49 excl. VAT, still including 1 TB storage and 1 TB egress; extra storage rose accordingly.

    Hetzner Object Storage Storage Source ↗

  • Mantine 9.0 released

    Mantine 9.0.0 was released on 31 March 2026; 8.3 continued to get patches until March 2026.

    Mantine UI libraries Source ↗

  • OpenAI containers billed per 20-minute session

    From 2026-03-31, hosted containers (Code Interpreter, hosted shell) are billed per 20-minute session per container, from $0.03 for 1 GB, instead of per container.

    OpenAI API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Stable Deployment Adapter API in Next.js 16.2

    Announced 25 March 2026: a typed, versioned build output and shared test suite for hosting platforms; Vercel and Bun adapters are verified, with Netlify, Cloudflare and AWS (OpenNext) adapters in development.

    Next.js Frameworks Source ↗

  • Gemini API prepay and postpay billing

    Announced 2026-03-23: Prepay and Postpay billing plans launched in Google AI Studio, affecting existing accounts; billing now starts prepaid before moving to pay-as-you-go.

    Gemini API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Knex resumes releases with 3.2.0

    Knex 3.2.0 was the first feature release since 3.1.0 in December 2023, adding migration lifecycle hooks and many fixes; 3.3.0 followed on 26 June 2026 with a MariaDB driver.

    Knex.js ORMs Source ↗

  • HeroUI v3 stable and HeroUI Pro pre-sale

    The v3.0.0 release notes (March 2026; added to the docs repository on 21 March 2026) announced a ground-up rewrite on React Aria Components and Tailwind v4, and a pre-sale of HeroUI Pro.

    HeroUI UI libraries Source ↗

  • Laravel 13 released

    Released 17 March 2026, requiring PHP 8.3 and adding a first-party AI SDK, JSON:API resources and vector search; bug fixes until Q3 2027 and security fixes until 17 March 2028.

    Laravel Backend Source ↗

  • Zeabur shuts its usage-billed shared cluster to new projects

    New projects on the shared cluster were disabled on 15 March 2026 and new services on 1 April 2026; apps now run on fixed-price dedicated servers. Zeabur's two free clusters became paid shared clusters requiring a Developer plan from 15 March.

    Zeabur PaaS Source ↗

  • Spaces Cold Storage generally available

    Announced 12 March 2026: a Cold Storage class for Spaces at $0.007/GiB-month with a 30-day minimum retention and $0.01/GiB retrieval beyond the included allowance.

    DigitalOcean Spaces Storage Source ↗

  • MikroORM 7 drops Knex and all core dependencies

    MikroORM 7.0.0 replaced Knex with its own query building on Kysely, has zero core dependencies, native ESM and no hard Node.js coupling; @mikro-orm/knex became @mikro-orm/sql.

    MikroORM ORMs Source ↗

  • Astro 6 released

    Released 10 March 2026: a redesigned dev server on Vite's Environment API runs the production runtime (such as Cloudflare workerd) in development; adds Fonts and CSP APIs and stable Live Content Collections.

    Astro Frameworks Source ↗

  • Eleventy renamed Build Awesome

    Announced 3 March 2026: Eleventy v4 will ship as Build Awesome v4 under Font Awesome, staying MIT-licensed and compatible with Eleventy plugins; a paid, optional Build Awesome Pro followed via Kickstarter in April 2026.

    Eleventy (Build Awesome) Frameworks Source ↗

  • Price increases on 29 TLDs

    EuroDNS raised prices on 29 extensions between 2026-03-01 and April 2026, starting with .pt (€40) on March 1 and .ai (€140) on March 5, then .biz, .club, .vip and others on April 1 (first effective date).

    EuroDNS Registrars Source ↗

  • Managed Payments added to the Stripe API

    Stripe's API changelog (version 2026-02-25.preview) adds the managed_payments parameter on Checkout Sessions. Pricing is 3.5% per transaction on top of standard processing fees.

    Stripe Managed Payments Payments Source ↗

  • React moves to the React Foundation

    Launched 24 February 2026 (announced October 2025): React, React Native and JSX are now owned by the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation instead of Meta.

    React Frameworks Source ↗

  • Vuetify 4 released

    Released 23 February 2026: styles moved into CSS layers, Material Design 3 typography and elevation, and a grid overhaul; the v3 line continues to receive releases.

    Vuetify UI libraries Source ↗

  • Free projects pause after 7 idle days

    Announced 2026-02-20: free projects with no development activity for 7 days in a row are paused automatically; data is kept and projects can be reactivated.

    Appwrite Cloud Databases Source ↗

  • Peewee 4.0 adds asyncio support

    Peewee 4.0.0 added an asyncio layer built on greenlet for aiosqlite, asyncpg and aiomysql; a later release marked it stable.

    Peewee ORMs Source ↗

  • Koyeb closes its free Starter plan to new users

    Announced 17 Feb 2026 with Koyeb's agreement to join Mistral AI: new users must subscribe to Pro ($29/month), Scale or Enterprise; existing Starter organizations keep their free instance.

    Koyeb PaaS Source ↗

  • Mailchimp halves its free plan limits

    Effective date (announced to customers in January 2026). The Free Marketing plan went from 500 contacts, 1,000 sends a month and 500 a day to 250 contacts, 500 sends a month and 250 a day; free accounts above 250 contacts had sending paused until they archived contacts or upgraded.

    Mailchimp Email marketing Source ↗

  • Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring drops telemetry credits for new plans

    Plans started after 2026-02-13 are billed only on active host and container hours with no telemetry credits; plans started between 2024-09-17 and 2026-02-13 keep their credits.

    Grafana Cloud Monitoring Source ↗

  • Auth0 Free plan gains an enterprise connection, SCIM and self-service SSO

    Announced 2026-02-12: the Free plan now includes one enterprise SSO connection, SCIM and self-service SSO, which previously required paid plans; paid B2B plans gain a la carte add-ons for extra connections, Enterprise MFA and M2M tokens.

    Auth0 Auth Source ↗

  • Tortoise ORM 1.0 with built-in migrations

    Tortoise ORM 1.0.0 added a native migrations framework (makemigrations/migrate) replacing Aerich, a context-based architecture, and made timezone-aware datetimes the default.

    Tortoise ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • EU region at 1.3x pricing

    Announced: deployments in aws-eu-west-1 on all plans, with resource prices 30% higher and no included usage on paid plans in the EU.

    Convex Databases Source ↗

  • Heroku moves to sustaining engineering and stops selling Enterprise contracts

    Announced 6 Feb 2026: Heroku will focus on stability and security rather than new features, and Enterprise Account contracts are no longer offered to new customers. Credit-card pricing and billing are unchanged.

    Heroku PaaS Source ↗

  • Clerk raises free tier to 50,000 retained users, new plans

    Announced 2026-02-05: free users per app go from 10,000 to 50,000 monthly retained users, unlimited apps on every plan, MFA moves into Pro and the Enhanced Authentication add-on is dropped. Enterprise connections become metered, 4+ dashboard seats and SOC 2/HIPAA artifacts now need Business.

    Clerk Auth Source ↗

  • Cloudflare Queues added to the Workers Free plan

    Announced 4 February 2026: Queues, previously Workers Paid only, is available on the free plan with 10,000 operations a day and all features, but retention is capped at 24 hours instead of up to 14 days.

    Cloudflare Queues Jobs and queues Source ↗

  • Fiber v3.0.0 released

    Fiber v3 was published on 2 February 2026 with a new binding API, an interface-based Ctx, a rewritten client and many breaking changes; a CLI migration tool helps move from v2.

    Fiber Backend Source ↗

  • Gatsby 5.16 adds React 19 support

    Released 26 January 2026: official React 19 support for Gatsby-maintained packages, within Netlify's limited-maintenance approach; partial hydration remains incompatible with React 19.

    Gatsby Frameworks Source ↗

  • M2/M5 and Serverless retired

    Effective: Atlas stopped supporting M2/M5 and Serverless; M2/M5 clusters were migrated to Flex, and Serverless instances to Free, Flex or Dedicated depending on usage.

    MongoDB Atlas Databases Source ↗

  • Echo v5 becomes the latest major version

    Echo v5 became the latest major on 18 January 2026 with public API changes documented for upgraders; Echo v4 gets security updates and bug fixes until 31 December 2026.

    Echo Backend Source ↗

  • Cloudflare acquires the Astro team

    Announced 16 January 2026: The Astro Technology Company joined Cloudflare. Astro stays MIT-licensed with open governance and continues to support deployment targets other than Cloudflare.

    Astro Frameworks Source ↗

  • Square raises US online card rates on the Free plan

    Reported effective January 13, 2026: hosted online checkout and invoices on the Free plan rose from 2.9% + 30¢ to 3.3% + 30¢, and on paid plans from 2.6% + 30¢ to 2.9% + 30¢. API payments stay 2.9% + 30¢.

    Square Payments Payments Source ↗

  • Droplets move to per-second billing

    Effective 1 January 2026, Droplets are billed per second with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, replacing hourly billing. Monthly caps still apply.

    DigitalOcean Droplets VPS Source ↗

  • Fly.io starts charging for volume snapshots

    From 1 Jan 2026 (first billed on the February 2026 invoice), volume snapshot storage costs $0.08/GB-month with the first 10 GB free each month; before that snapshots were not charged.

    Fly.io PaaS Source ↗

2025

  • Claude Haiku 3.5 deprecated

    Announced 2025-12-19: claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 was retired on the Claude API on 2026-02-19, replaced by Claude Haiku 4.5. It remains on Bedrock and Google Cloud.

    Claude API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Base UI reaches v1.0

    Released 11 December 2025: first stable version with 35 unstyled components and the new @base-ui/react package.

    Base UI UI libraries Source ↗

  • Free Kafka tier and a $5 Developer plan

    Announced and launched the same day: a free Apache Kafka service (250 KiB/s, 5 topics, 3-day retention) and a $5/mo Developer plan for PostgreSQL and MySQL, next to the existing free tiers.

    Aiven Databases Source ↗

  • Django 6.0 released

    Released 3 December 2025. With it, Django 5.2 LTS left mainstream support and receives only security and data-loss fixes until April 2028.

    Django Backend Source ↗

  • MinIO community edition enters maintenance mode

    The README was changed on 3 December 2025 to say the project is in maintenance mode and not accepting changes, after community binaries and images had already stopped in October 2025. The repository was later marked no longer maintained and archived.

    MinIO (AIStor) Storage Source ↗

  • Critical React Server Components vulnerability

    Disclosed 3 December 2025: CVE-2025-55182 (CVSS 10.0) allowed unauthenticated remote code execution through React Server Function endpoints. Fixed in React 19.0.1, 19.1.2 and 19.2.1; next, react-router, waku and rwsdk were listed as affected.

    React Frameworks Source ↗

  • $5 monthly minimum dropped

    Announced December 2025 (month only; no day given): Neon stopped enforcing the $5 minimum on paid plans, making them purely usage-based.

    Neon Databases Source ↗

  • Cognito legacy-price upgrade window to Essentials closes

    Existing Cognito customers could move user pools to the new Essentials tier at the old user-pool price only until 30 November 2025 (end date stated on the pricing page); after that Essentials is billed at its list price of $0.015 per MAU above the 10,000 free.

    Amazon Cognito Auth Source ↗

  • Trigger.dev doubles included concurrency and cuts add-on price

    Announced 27 November 2025: production concurrency rose from 10 to 20 (Free), 25 to 50 (Hobby) and 100 to 200 (Pro), and extra concurrency on Pro became self-serve at $10/month per 50, five times cheaper than before.

    Trigger.dev Jobs and queues Source ↗

  • Ant Design 6.0 released

    Released 22 November 2025: requires React 18 or newer and drops IE; v5 moved to a one-year maintenance period with only serious bug fixes.

    Ant Design UI libraries Source ↗

  • Spring Boot 4.0 released

    Released 20 November 2025 on Spring Framework 7: a modularised codebase, JSpecify null safety, first-class Java 25 support with Java 17 still supported, API versioning and HTTP service clients.

    Spring Boot Backend Source ↗

  • Prisma 7 makes the Rust-free client the default

    Prisma ORM 7.0.0 made the TypeScript query compiler default, requires driver adapters and prisma.config.ts, generates the client outside node_modules and removed the postinstall generate hook. Prisma 6 gets security patches until 19 November 2026.

    Prisma ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • CloudFront adds flat-rate plans with no overages

    Announced 2025-11-18: alongside pay-as-you-go, CloudFront distributions can use Free ($0), Pro ($15), Business ($200) or Premium ($1,000) monthly plans bundling WAF, DDoS protection, Route 53 DNS, logs and S3 credits with no overage charges.

    Amazon CloudFront CDN and DNS Source ↗

  • $5 single-node Postgres

    Effective 2025-11-14 (announced 2025-10-30): a single-node PS-5 Postgres at $5/mo became available; before, the entry point was a 3-node cluster at $30/mo. Development branches dropped from $10 to $5/mo.

    PlanetScale Databases Source ↗

  • .NET 10 LTS released

    .NET 10, including ASP.NET Core 10, was released on 11 November 2025 as a Long Term Support release supported until 14 November 2028.

    ASP.NET Core Backend Source ↗

  • Fly.io lets legacy Hobby plans convert to pay-as-you-go immediately

    Announced 10 Nov 2025: legacy Hobby orgs can switch to pay-as-you-go at once instead of at the next billing period; converting ends the legacy free allowances (3 small VMs, 3 GB volumes). New orgs have had no free allowance since plans were discontinued on 7 Oct 2024.

    Fly.io PaaS Source ↗

  • Fastly moves self-serve accounts to a new free tier and usage pricing

    Effective 2025-11-04 for new sign-ups: new pricing with a free tier (card required) and usage-based rates; online paid accounts created earlier keep legacy pricing of $50/month plus usage.

    Fastly CDN and DNS Source ↗

  • Compute price cut up to 25%

    Effective on announcement: Launch compute went from $0.14 to $0.106 per CU-hour and Scale from $0.26 to $0.222.

    Neon Databases Source ↗

  • Storj introduces tiered pricing without segment fees

    Announced 10 September 2025 and effective 1 November 2025: new projects moved to tiered pricing that removed per-segment fees and included egress in the global tier; existing projects stayed on legacy pricing until July 2026.

    Storj Storage Source ↗

  • Next.js 16: Turbopack default, proxy.ts, Cache Components

    Released 22 October 2025 (UTC): Turbopack became the default bundler, middleware.ts was deprecated in favour of proxy.ts on the Node.js runtime, Cache Components introduced opt-in caching, and breaking changes such as async params landed.

    Next.js Frameworks Source ↗

  • Rails 8.1 released

    Released 22 October 2025 with job continuations, structured event reporting and local CI, from over 500 contributors across 2,500 commits.

    Ruby on Rails Backend Source ↗

  • Logto Free plan loses RBAC and halves included tokens

    Effective 2025-10-01: Free plan included tokens drop from 100,000 to 50,000 a month and role-based access control is removed from Free (Pro add-on only). Free still allows up to 50,000 MAU.

    Logto Auth Source ↗

  • Netlify cuts Pro monthly credits from 5,000 to 3,000

    Pro credits dropped from 5,000 to 3,000 a month from the next billing cycle, while extra-credit packs got cheaper (Pro: 1,500 for $10, was 1,000 for $20; Personal: 500 for $5, was 200). Date approximate: the changelog gives Pro sign-ups before 1 October a 2,000-credit bonus in their October cycle.

    Netlify PaaS Source ↗

  • Nuxt UI v4 makes Nuxt UI Pro free

    Released 23 September 2025: the paid Nuxt UI Pro was merged into the free, open-source @nuxt/ui package, along with all templates and the Figma kit.

    Nuxt UI UI libraries Source ↗

  • Nuxt UI Pro becomes free

    Released 22 September 2025: Nuxt UI v4 merged the previously paid Nuxt UI Pro components into the free, open-source library, as promised when NuxtLabs joined Vercel.

    Nuxt Frameworks Source ↗

  • .NET STS releases now supported for 24 months

    Announced 16 September 2025: Standard Term Support releases get 24 months instead of 18, starting with .NET 9, which now ends support on 10 November 2026. LTS stays at three years.

    ASP.NET Core Backend Source ↗

  • Diesel 2.3 adds window functions and SQLite on WASM

    Diesel 2.3 added a HasQuery derive, window functions, browser SQLite via wasm32 and SQLite JSON support; minimum Rust version is 1.86.

    Diesel ORMs Source ↗

  • Rust-free Prisma ORM generally available (6.16)

    Prisma 6.16 made the Rust-free query compiler and the ESM-first prisma-client generator production-ready as an opt-in.

    Prisma ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • Fresh 2.0 released as a Vite plugin

    Released 9 September 2025: Fresh 2 rewrote its core around a composable App API, became a Vite plugin with island HMR, added built-in OpenTelemetry and moved to JSR. Fresh 1.x apps need a migration.

    Fresh Frameworks Source ↗

  • Enterprise features folded into the Scale plan

    Announced: SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, PrivateLink, SLA and point-in-time recovery became part of the usage-based Scale plan, removing a fixed surcharge. Free compute doubled from 50 to 100 CU-hours in October.

    Neon Databases Source ↗

  • Netlify moves new accounts to credit-based plans

    Effective 4 Sept 2025 (announced the same day), new accounts get Free (300 credits/month, hard limit), Personal ($9, 1,000 credits) and Pro ($20, 5,000 credits, up from $19). Existing Free, Starter and Pro accounts became legacy plans with no forced change.

    Netlify PaaS Source ↗

  • Appwrite Pro rises from $15 to $25, priced per project

    Effective 2025-09-01 (announced 2025-08-08): Pro went from $15 to $25/mo, per-seat pricing became per-project ($15 per extra project), and included bandwidth rose from 300 GB to 2 TB.

    Appwrite Cloud Databases Source ↗

  • Bunny Shield request limits and overage billing begin

    Announced 2025-08-05, effective 2025-09-01: Shield plans got request allowances (Basic 25M, Advanced 50M, new Business plan at $99 with 250M) with overage of $0.60 to $0.70 per million clean requests.

    Bunny CDN CDN and DNS Source ↗

  • Logto stops counting refresh tokens, raises Pro base to $24

    Announced 2025-09-01: refresh tokens no longer count toward token usage, and the Pro plan base price moves from $16 to $24/mo with RBAC as a $32/mo add-on, starting with billing cycles after 1 October 2025.

    Logto Auth Source ↗

  • Sentry adds Logs and halves included spans

    Effective 2025-08-27: Team and Business base quotas gained 5 GB of logs, while included spans fell from 10M to 5M; base prices ($29 Team, $89 Business monthly) were unchanged and reserved span tiers rose $8/$16 a month.

    Sentry Monitoring Source ↗

  • Assistants API deprecated

    Announced 2025-08-20: the Assistants API shut down on 2026-08-26; OpenAI points users to the Responses and Conversations APIs.

    OpenAI API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Usage-based pricing replaces fixed plans

    Effective 2025-08-14: paid plans became usage-based (a $5 minimum instead of the $19 Launch plan) and storage fell from $1.75 to $0.35 per GB-month.

    Neon Databases Source ↗

  • Postmark Pro and Platform features available at 10,000 emails

    Announced and effective August 6, 2025: Pro and Platform features (inbound, more users and streams) became available at the 10,000-email level for $16.50 and $18 a month, instead of requiring larger plans previously priced at $60.50 and $138. Basic stayed at $15.

    Postmark Transactional email Source ↗

  • Phoenix 1.8 released

    Released 5 August 2025: scopes for secure data access, magic-link login in phx.gen.auth, dark mode support and an AGENTS.md in new apps. It requires Erlang/OTP 25+ and is backwards compatible with some deprecations.

    Phoenix Backend Source ↗

  • App Hosting outgoing bandwidth priced

    Effective 2025-08-01: App Hosting egress is free up to 10 GiB a month, then $0.20/GiB uncached and $0.15/GiB cached.

    Firebase Databases Source ↗

  • Tailwind Plus blocks work in plain HTML

    Announced 25 July 2025: every Tailwind Plus UI block, including plain HTML examples, became interactive through a vanilla JavaScript library instead of needing React or Vue.

    Tailwind Plus UI libraries Source ↗

  • Flowbite Pro team licences capped at 10 members

    From 17 July 2025 a Flowbite Pro team licence is fixed at 10 members per company; before that, several team licences could be stacked. Larger teams need a quote.

    Flowbite UI libraries Source ↗

  • AWS Free Tier moves to credits for new accounts

    Effective 2025-07-15: new AWS accounts get $100 in credits (up to $100 more) and a time-limited free plan instead of 12 months of 750 free micro-instance hours; older accounts keep the legacy free tier.

    Amazon RDS and Aurora Databases Source ↗

  • AWS replaces 12-month free tier with credits for new accounts

    Effective 15 July 2025, new AWS accounts get $100 credit plus up to $100 more for 6 months instead of the legacy 12-month free tier, which included 5 GB of S3 Standard storage. Accounts created before that date keep the legacy offers.

    Amazon S3 Storage Source ↗

  • Nuxt 4.0 released

    Released 15 July 2025 with a new project structure, reworked data fetching and improved type safety; Nuxt 3 continues to receive releases in parallel.

    Nuxt Frameworks Source ↗

  • NuxtLabs joins Vercel

    Announced 8 July 2025: NuxtLabs, steward of Nuxt and Nitro, joined Vercel. Nuxt and Nitro stay MIT-licensed with a public roadmap and open governance.

    Nuxt Frameworks Source ↗

  • Gemini Batch Mode launched

    Launched 2025-07-07: asynchronous Batch Mode for the Gemini API, now priced at 50% of standard rates on paid tiers.

    Gemini API AI APIs Source ↗

  • Unlimited databases on paid plans

    Effective 4 July 2025 (announced 2025-06-17): paid plans got unlimited databases, with a monthly active database allowance (500, 2,500 or 10,000) and a fee per extra active database.

    Turso Databases Source ↗

  • Pay-as-you-go Starter plan

    Effective 2025-06-18: a Starter plan that is pay-as-you-go beyond the free limits; before, the only paid option was Professional at $25 per developer a month.

    Convex Databases Source ↗

  • Timescale becomes Tiger Data; Timescale Cloud becomes Tiger Cloud

    Announced 2025-06-17: Timescale renamed itself Tiger Data and its cloud product became Tiger Cloud. The open-source TimescaleDB extension keeps its name.

    Tiger Cloud Databases Source ↗

  • Remix 3 will drop React

    Announced 28 May 2025: after Remix v2 merged into React Router v7, the Remix team said Remix 3 would be a new framework with no critical dependencies, including React. Remix v2 users should upgrade to React Router v7.

    Remix 3 Frameworks Source ↗

  • SendGrid retires its Free Email API plan

    Announced May 27, 2025: existing Free Email API and Free Marketing Campaigns plans kept full access for 60 days, after which sending paused unless the account upgraded to a paid plan (Essentials from $19.95/mo).

    Twilio SendGrid Email API Transactional email Source ↗

  • MinIO removes admin console from community edition

    Release RELEASE.2025-05-24T17-08-30Z (released that day) cut the community web console down to a basic object browser; administration moved to the mc CLI. The last build with the full console was RELEASE.2025-04-22.

    MinIO (AIStor) Storage Source ↗

  • SigNoz Cloud Teams minimum cut from $199 to $49

    Announced 2025-05-20: the Teams plan base fee dropped from $199 to $49 a month, still including that amount of usage; per-GB and per-sample rates were unchanged.

    SigNoz Monitoring Source ↗

  • Hibernate ORM 7.0 released

    7.0.0.Final shipped as the first final release under Apache 2.0, requiring Java 17 and implementing Jakarta Persistence 3.2.

    Hibernate ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • Mantine 8.0 released

    Mantine 8.0.0 was released on 5 May 2025, a new major version after the 7.x line.

    Mantine UI libraries Source ↗

  • Stripe announces Managed Payments, built by the Lemon Squeezy team

    Announced April 29, 2025 at Stripe Sessions: a merchant-of-record option inside Stripe, applied per transaction, with a private preview planned. Lemon Squeezy said existing users needed no action.

    Stripe Managed Payments Payments Source ↗

  • Higher limits for Queues pull consumers

    Announced 17 April 2025: pull consumers can pull and acknowledge up to 5,000 messages per second per queue, up from 1,200 requests per 5 minutes across all queues; price unchanged at $0.40 per million operations.

    Cloudflare Queues Jobs and queues Source ↗

  • Higher throughput and request limits on all plans

    Announced: maximum throughput rose from 1k to 10k requests a second, maximum request size from 1 MB to 10 MB and maximum connections from 1k to 10k, on Free, Pay as You Go and Fixed plans.

    Upstash Redis Databases Source ↗

  • Bunny Shield WAF launches with a free Basic plan

    Announced 2025-04-16: Bunny Shield (WAF, DDoS, rate limiting) launched in preview with a free Basic plan and an Advanced plan at $9.50/month.

    Bunny CDN CDN and DNS Source ↗

  • GPT-4.5 preview deprecated

    Announced 2025-04-14: gpt-4.5-preview was shut down on 2025-07-14, with gpt-4.1 as the recommended replacement.

    OpenAI API AI APIs Source ↗

  • RedwoodJS splits into Redwood GraphQL and RedwoodSDK

    Announced 4 April 2025: the original RedwoodJS framework continues as Redwood GraphQL with maintenance but no new features planned, while new development moves to RedwoodSDK, a React framework that runs only on Cloudflare.

    RedwoodSDK Frameworks Source ↗

  • Express 5.1 becomes the default npm version; Express 4 enters maintenance

    On 31 March 2025 Express 5.1.0 was tagged latest on npm, ending the v4 default. The project published an LTS policy: v4 moved to maintenance on 1 April 2025 with end of life no sooner than 1 October 2026.

    Express Backend Source ↗

  • jOOQ raises high-volume licence prices

    jOOQ's licence agreement dated 31 March 2025 lists higher tiered prices than the January 2023 version, e.g. Enterprise yearly for 10 to 19 workstations went from EUR 6,990 to 7,990; per-workstation prices (Express EUR 99, Professional 399, Enterprise 799 a year) are unchanged.

    jOOQ ORMs Source ↗

  • Material UI v7 released

    Released 26 March 2025, focused on better integration with modern tooling and consistency, with an upgrade guide from v6.

    Material UI (MUI) UI libraries Source ↗

  • New SendGrid accounts get a 60-day trial instead of a free plan

    From March 25, 2025 (effective date), new Twilio SendGrid accounts start on a 60-day trial limited to 100 emails a day, after which sending stops unless a paid Email API plan is chosen.

    Twilio SendGrid Email API Transactional email Source ↗

  • Developer plan at $4.99 replaces $9 Hobby

    Announced: the Developer plan ($4.99/mo billed yearly, $5.99 monthly) replaced the $9 Hobby plan. The free tier was cut to 500M row reads, 10M writes and 5 GB from 2025-03-31.

    Turso Databases Source ↗

  • Hibernate ORM relicensed from LGPL to Apache 2.0

    Hibernate announced ORM is relicensed under Apache 2.0 from 7.0 onwards (7.0.0.Beta5, 21 March 2025, was the first Apache release); 6.x and older stay LGPL 2.1. The Teradata dialect and hibernate-ucp were dropped as a result.

    Hibernate ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • Free team seats raised from 2 to 6

    Announced: the free plan's team size went from 2 to 6 developers, and spending limits were added to Pro.

    Convex Databases Source ↗

  • Free tier raised to 500K commands a month

    Effective 2025-03-12: the free tier moved from 10K commands a day to 500K commands a month, and new fixed-price plans were added.

    Upstash Redis Databases Source ↗

  • Skeleton v3 adds React, Svelte 5 and Tailwind v4

    Released 11 March 2025: components rewritten on Zag.js, a new React package alongside Svelte 5 components, and Tailwind v4 support.

    Skeleton UI libraries Source ↗

  • Tailwind UI renamed Tailwind Plus

    Announced 4 March 2025: Tailwind UI became Tailwind Plus, still a one-time purchase with lifetime access; existing All-Access licences carried over and the price did not change.

    Tailwind Plus UI libraries Source ↗

  • Laravel Cloud launches alongside Laravel 12

    Laravel's managed hosting platform went live on 24 February 2025, the same day Laravel 12 and new React, Vue and Livewire starter kits shipped. It is now priced from $5/month plus usage on the Starter plan.

    Laravel Backend Source ↗

  • Klaviyo enforces profile-based plan compliance

    Effective date. Card-paying customers must be on an email plan that covers their active profile count, with automatic upgrades at the next billing cycle; optional flexible sending and auto-downgrade billing preferences were added.

    Klaviyo Email marketing Source ↗

  • Create React App deprecated

    Announced 14 February 2025: the React team deprecated Create React App for new apps and now recommends starting with a framework (Next.js, React Router) or a build tool such as Vite, Parcel or Rsbuild.

    React Frameworks Source ↗

  • bunny.net free trial switches from 1 TB to trial credit

    Announced 2025-02-12: the 14-day trial with a 1 TB traffic cap was replaced by $20 of trial credit (no card) or $50 with a linked card, usable across all products for 14 days.

    Bunny CDN CDN and DNS Source ↗

  • SambaNova Cloud launches paid Developer tier

    Announced 2025-02-08: pay-per-token Developer tier with higher rate limits; existing and new developers received $5 of free credit expiring after 3 months.

    SambaNova Cloud (SambaCloud) AI APIs Source ↗

  • shadcn/ui moves to Tailwind v4 and React 19

    Announced 6 February 2025: new projects start on Tailwind v4 and React 19, the default style is deprecated for new-york, toast is deprecated for sonner and colors move to OKLCH. Existing Tailwind v3 projects keep working.

    shadcn/ui UI libraries Source ↗

  • Flex clusters replace M2/M5 and Serverless

    From February 2025 (month only; no day given): new M2/M5 shared clusters and Serverless instances can no longer be created; Flex (from $0.011/hr, $8 to $30/mo) replaces them.

    MongoDB Atlas Databases Source ↗

  • Temporal Cloud moves customers to Essentials and Business plans

    Announced 6 November 2024 and applied to pay-as-you-go customers in February 2025: plans became the greater of $100/mo or 5% of usage (Essentials) or $500/mo or 10% (Business), replacing the $200 Basic support tier; volume discounts start at 5M actions.

    Temporal Cloud Jobs and queues Source ↗

  • Prisma announces move from Rust engine to TypeScript

    Prisma announced it would replace the Rust query engine with a TypeScript/WASM query compiler, cutting bundle size and native-binary deployment issues (announcement date).

    Prisma ORM ORMs Source ↗

  • Claude 2, 2.1 and Sonnet 3 deprecated

    Announced 2025-01-21: claude-2.0, claude-2.1 and claude-3-sonnet-20240229 were retired on 2025-07-21.

    Claude API AI APIs Source ↗

  • NextUI renamed HeroUI

    Announced 16 January 2025: NextUI became HeroUI and the @nextui-org packages were deprecated in favour of @heroui, with no breaking changes in the rename.

    HeroUI UI libraries Source ↗

  • Buttondown makes automations and API cheaper

    Announcement date. Automations became available to anyone paying at least $29/mo (previously $79/mo), and API access became available on every plan (previously $9/mo).

    Buttondown Email marketing Source ↗

  • Search and file APIs removed from the free tier

    Effective 2025-01-10: search and file APIs left the free plan. The old free platform was later replaced by the trial-only Xata Cloud.

    Xata Databases Source ↗

  • Axum 0.8 released with breaking changes

    Announced 1 January 2025. Path parameters changed from /:param and /*rest to /{param} and /{*rest} (old syntax panics), handlers must be Sync, and the Host extractor moved to axum-extra.

    Axum Backend Source ↗

  • Gumroad becomes merchant of record

    Took effect January 1, 2025: Gumroad now collects and remits sales tax, VAT and GST worldwide for creators, and creators' own tax settings were switched off. Fees stay 10% + 50¢ on direct sales.

    Gumroad Payments Source ↗