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    <description>What changed in Orbit, newest first.</description>
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      <title>A step-by-step guide for every new app</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#app-guide</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A new app shows its next step in the header: every step at a glance, one unfolded at a time. You can hide the guide, and show it again from the settings of the app.</description>
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      <title>A notice when an app keeps crashing</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#crash-notice</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When an app keeps crashing, the team gets a notification, and the overview shows what each replica is doing.</description>
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      <title>Deploy commands</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#deploy-commands</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Commands that run once for every deployment, before the new version takes traffic. The place for database migrations. If one fails, the running app is not changed. See Deploy commands.</description>
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      <title>Documentation</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#documentation</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The documentation is online: a quick start, an Express guide, a page for every setting, and a prompt that checks your app with your AI coding assistant before you deploy.</description>
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      <title>Your own install command, and more than one build command</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#install-and-build-commands</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Set an install command when the automatic one does not fit, and put several build commands on lines of their own. See Build settings.</description>
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      <title>A hint for scheduled jobs</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#jobs-hint</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When the packages of an app run scheduled jobs or queue workers, the dashboard says so: they do not run while the app sleeps.</description>
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      <title>Move an app to another region</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#move-to-another-region</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Scaling page has a region setting. Pick another region, save and deploy again: replicas start in the new region and are checked before the old ones are removed, so the app stays online. A move that fails leaves the app where it was. See Scaling.</description>
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      <title>The terms and the privacy policy at sign-in</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#terms-at-sign-in</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The sign-in page links the terms of service and the privacy policy. A new account keeps the time it accepted them, and which version.</description>
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      <title>Limits for variables</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#variable-limits</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An app takes up to 200 variables, 32 KB for one value and 256 KB for all of them together. Names that start with PLATFORM_ are kept for the platform. See Environment variables.</description>
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      <title>Variables during the build</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#variables-during-the-build</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every variable has a Build switch, off until you turn it on. With it on, the variable is set while the app is installed and built: for a token that a private package needs, or a value the build puts into the built files. See Environment variables.</description>
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      <title>Wake up fast</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#wake-up-fast</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A sleeping app can keep its memory, so it answers the next request without starting again. See Sleep and wake.</description>
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      <title>Yarn 2 and newer</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#yarn-2</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Projects that use Yarn 2 or newer now build.</description>
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      <title>Activity is about what people did</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#activity</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The activity page lists what members changed, and names the setting that changed. It is for the owner and the admins. Alerts such as a crash arrive as notifications.</description>
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      <title>Build logs are kept for 90 days</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#build-log-90-days</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The log of a deployment is kept for 90 days after the deployment ended.</description>
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      <title>Builds install what they need</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#build-packages</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>With a build command, everything in package.json is installed for the build, and the packages in devDependencies are removed after it.</description>
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      <title>Deployments carry on through platform updates</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#deployments-carry-on</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A deployment that is running while the platform itself is updated is picked up again and finishes. Deploy commands that were still running are waited for, not run a second time.</description>
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      <title>Build settings are read from your repository</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#detect-build-settings</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When you create an app, the Node version, the package manager and the build and start commands are read from your code. Detect from repository on the settings page reads them again.</description>
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      <title>The dashboard links the documentation</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#docs-in-the-dashboard</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Docs in the sidebar opens the documentation, and Support opens the contact page. The variables of an app, its build settings, its deploy commands and its custom domains each link the page that explains them.</description>
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      <title>Older deployments and activity</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#lists-by-page</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Deployments and the activity of a team are shown a page at a time, with Previous and Next. Before, only the newest 50 deployments and 100 activity entries could be seen.</description>
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      <title>Logs in plain words</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#logs-in-plain-words</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The build log and the runtime log say what happened in plain words.</description>
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      <title>New apps stay awake</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#new-apps-stay-awake</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A new app starts with Keep one replica always on switched on. Switch it off to let the app sleep when it is idle.</description>
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      <title>Prices before you choose</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#prices-before-you-choose</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The dialog for a new custom domain says what the domain will cost, and the list of domains has a price for each one. When you create an app, every region shows the most one replica costs there in a month. Pause now says that running time is not charged while extra custom domains still are.</description>
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      <title>Several pushes, one deployment</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#pushes-join</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Pushes that arrive while a deployment is still waiting join it, so the newest code is built once.</description>
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      <title>A sign-in lasts 30 days</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#sign-in-lasts-30-days</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A browser stays signed in for 30 days after a sign-in, instead of 400. After that you sign in again with a code.</description>
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      <title>The dashboard is stricter with browsers</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#stricter-with-browsers</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every answer of the dashboard tells the browser to come back over HTTPS only and not to show the page inside a frame on another site. The cookies that sign you in are sent over HTTPS only. See the security page.</description>
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      <title>Time to finish before an app stops</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#time-to-finish</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Before an app is stopped, it gets the signal SIGTERM and 30 seconds to finish the requests that are open.</description>
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      <title>Domains with a two-part ending</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#domains-with-two-part-endings</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A domain such as example.co.uk or example.co.in is now seen as a root domain and gets an A and an AAAA record. Before, the dashboard asked for a CNAME record there, which DNS does not allow. The name of each record is shown the way DNS providers ask for it, @ or www, and the dialog for a new domain shows the right kind of record while you type. See Domains.</description>
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      <title>Changing repository access on GitHub</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#github-access-change</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>When you change on GitHub which repositories the platform may read, the dashboard reads the list again on your way back. Before, it showed an error.</description>
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      <title>Redeploy after a change of branch</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#redeploy-after-branch-change</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>After the branch of an app is changed, a redeploy builds the newest commit of the new branch. Before, it built the commit that was live once more.</description>
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      <title>You stay signed in</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#stay-signed-in</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A sign-in is remembered. Before, you were asked for a new code once 120 minutes had passed without activity.</description>
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      <title>Your code is fetched inside the build</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#code-inside-the-build</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The repository is downloaded inside the build environment of the app itself.</description>
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      <title>Elapsed time on a running deployment</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#elapsed-time</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A deployment that is running shows how long it has been going.</description>
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      <title>Faster builds</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#faster-builds</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Each app keeps the packages it downloaded in a cache of its own between builds.</description>
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      <title>Restart and pause, explained</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#restart-and-pause</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The app menu says what Restart and Pause do before you choose one.</description>
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      <title>Cancelling stops the build at once</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#cancel-at-once</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Cancelling a deployment stops its build where it is.</description>
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      <title>Stuck deployments are ended</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A deployment whose work stopped without a result is ended within minutes, and the app is free for the next one.</description>
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      <title>Plans, a trial and usage by the second</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#plans-and-usage</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Three plans, a trial with usage credit and no card, and usage counted per second. The billing page shows what each app used in the current cycle and every line of each statement. See Pricing.</description>
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      <title>Variable values are revealed one at a time</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Owners and admins reveal the value of a variable one at a time, and each reveal is noted in the activity.</description>
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      <title>Reconnecting GitHub brings apps back</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>If the GitHub connection is removed, the apps stay. Reconnecting brings them back.</description>
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      <title>Signing in is quicker</title>
      <link>https://arrangic.com/changelog#sign-in-code</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The sign-in code has six boxes and is sent as soon as all six digits are in.</description>
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      <title>A sleeping app costs nothing to run</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>While an app sleeps, no compute is counted.</description>
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      <title>The first version</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Connect a GitHub repository, and every push to your branch builds the app and puts it online. Custom domains with automatic HTTPS, a primary domain that the others redirect to, and a platform URL that can be switched off. Instance sizes and regions, live runtime logs, and environment variables that can be edited one by one or as .env text.</description>
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