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.

To learn more, check out our Gated Deployments documentation or the Gated Deployments: Addressing the complexity of schema deployments at scale blog post.

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.

We just released the new PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript.

This Fetch API-compatible driver allows you to use PlanetScale with serverless and edge compute platforms that require HTTP connections, such as Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions.

To use this driver, you must opt-in and accept beta terms to access the required PlanetScale connection strings. You can enroll your database by selecting the database in the PlanetScale dashboard, clicking "Settings", "Beta features", and clicking "Enroll" next to "PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript".

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.

Teams is available on all plans.

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.