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date: 2025-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
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description: >-
  August changelog featuring deployment strategies, approval policies, UI
  improvements, smarter log management for AWS CloudWatch, and CLI updates for
  nullplatform.
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  - deployment strategies
  - blue-green deployments
  - approval policies
  - permissions
  - UI improvements
  - logging
  - AWS CloudWatch
  - CLI 2.1.0
  - automation
  - nullplatform
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title: August 2025
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August changelog featuring deployment strategies, approval policies, UI improvements, smarter log management for AWS CloudWatch, and CLI updates for nullplatform.

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## ✨ Take control with deployment strategies  

You can now **customize and craft your own deployment strategies**, giving you more flexibility and safety in your
deployments.

What you can do:  

- **Create all-in strategies** to move all traffic at once
- Set your own traffic switch **step size** and **interval**
- Enable **automatic rollbacks** when metrics fall outside your configured range
- Apply strategies to specific **environments** (e.g., `development` or `US`)
- Craft your **own strategy from scratch**.

Common use cases:

- **Blue-Green with rollback:** gradually shifts traffic and rolls back if HTTP error rates spike.  
- **All-In:** sends 100% of traffic to the new version in a single step.  

👉 Check out the [Deployment strategies docs](/docs/deployments/strategies) for full details and ready-to-use examples.  

## ✨ We listened to your feedback!

Thanks to your input in last month’s survey, we’ve shipped a series of UI improvements designed to reduce friction and
enhance user experience:  

- **Log experience revamped** – The logs view now is faster and less prone to end up in an *empty data* state. This has
  been a longstanding pain point, and we expect the experience to feel much smoother 💪.
- **Persistent filters and shareable URLs** – Tables now remember applied filters even after refreshing or navigating
  back. Filters also sync with the URL, so you can share specific views with teammates and keep search states intact.
- **Configurable lists** – You can now sort, pin, and toggle columns.

These updates are a direct response to your thoughtful feedback, so we thank you again for helping us improve.

👉 See our [Catalog docs](/docs/catalog/getting-started) for more info.


## ✨ Approval policies for permissions  

You now have more control over how permissions are granted in your organization with **approval-based policies**.  

When a user tries to assign a role or permission, you can require the request to go through an approval workflow. A
notification will be sent to the configured channel so the action can be reviewed before it’s applied.  

**Example:**

If someone tries to assign the `admin` role to a member, you can enforce a policy like this:  


```json
{
"name": "Admin role requires approval",
  "grant.role_slug": {
    "$ne": "admin"
  }
},
```

This way, the action will trigger a notification, giving you the chance to review and approve (or reject) the request
before it goes live.

<img alt="approval-admin-role" src="/img/changelogs/2025/august/approval-admin-role.png" width="60%" className="helper-image" />

👉 Learn more in the [Approvals docs](/docs/approvals/).


## ✨ Smarter log management for AWS CloudWatch  

We’ve expanded provider support with a **new configuration option for AWS CloudWatch**.  

You can now set **retention policies** for your CloudWatch logs directly in nullplatform. This means you can decide how
long logs should be kept, balancing compliance, observability, and cost.  

What’s new: 

- New `retention_in_days` setting to control log retention  
- Defaults to 7 days, but you can adjust it (including indefinite storage)  
- Works seamlessly with your existing CloudWatch setup  

👉 See the full [AWS CloudWatch docs](/docs/providers/supported-integrations/logging/aws-cloudwatch-logs-configuration)
for setup instructions and examples.  

## AI comes to our support experience

We’re doubling-down on being there whenever you need our team by **integrating AI with our communication channels and
our ticketing system**.

Now, **every interaction on our channels is evaluated by AI models and tickets are automatically created whenever is
needed**. We’re rolling out this feature for Slack during September and we’ll continue with Microsoft Teams, Google
Chat and other channels in the coming months.


## ✨ CLI updates  

We’ve released version `2.1.0` of the nullplatform CLI, bringing improvements and new features.  

What's new:

- Added commands to **manage approval policies** (`np approval`), allowing you to create, edit, read, and delete them.
- Fixed a bug in the `np service workflow exec` command related to error handling when using the `--build-context`
  option.


👉 See the [CLI docs](/docs/cli) for more info.


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Wishing you a fantastic month ahead – from the **nullplatform** team! ❤️