March 2020 Summaries

As a remote-first company, we're minimally affected by recent events and are supporting our teams and families with virtual activities. We recognize an opportunity to help our communities in any way possible, highlighting projects from developers in our Next.js and Vercel community who have built over 2,500 COVID-19 related sites generating critical information and awareness. The preparedness of hospitals is not enough to navigate emergencies like this, and as developers, we must support doctors and nurses with timely access to actionable information and advice. Our developer community has risen to the challenge, leveraging the internet to connect, inform, and share, inspiring us with their efforts, which we're proud to have enabled. We encourage our community to contribute to charities globally and are here to assist those working on COVID-19 related projects.

Ana JovanovaIgor KlopovJoe CohenLeo LamprechtSometimes you might find yourself having created a deployment that you don't need anymore, or that is causing other deployments to get queued behind it.Previously, it was necessary to wait for such deployments to complete, and then delete them. As of today, however, you can immediately cancel deployments if they are no longer required.A New Cancel ButtonIn order to prevent a deployment from continuing to build, you can now click on the newly added "Cancel" button that shows up on the dashboard while your deployment is building:Canceling an ongoing deployment from the dashboard.Once you've canceled the deployment, any deployments queued behind it will start building.Preventing Deployments from Getting QueuedIf you're creating new deployments very quickly, the most recently created ones may get queued until the oldest ones have completed building.Canceling some of them will allow the others to start building. A better way to get them to start building, however, is to increase the amount of Concurrent Builds on your team's "Billing" settings page:Increasing the amount of Concurrent Builds.Please note that the Concurrent Builds feature is only available to teams.ConclusionPreventing ongoing deployments from building is now simply a matter of clicking a button.For teams that would like to increase the amount of deployments they can build at the same time, however, we recommend increasing the amount of Concurrent Builds.Let us know what you think about this change.`` This new feature allows users to immediately cancel ongoing deployments if they are no longer required, preventing them from queuing other deployments behind them. A "Cancel" button has been added to the dashboard, and once a deployment is canceled, any queued deployments can start building again. To further improve performance, teams can increase their Concurrent Builds limit on the Billing settings page, which is currently only available to teams.

Vercel has improved its project management features by making it easier to edit the Git connection of a project, which can be done using the new "Git Integration" setting in the Project Settings. The company has also refined the "Git Integrations" page for personal accounts and teams, providing a clear overview of the status of the Git connection and how to edit it. Additionally, Vercel now allows users to manage existing connections to Git providers with equal ease as importing a new repository, making deployment processes more streamlined.

We've made it easy to pipe invocation logs of Serverless Functions or Static Files to log inspection tools like LogDNA or Datadog, allowing us to focus on our core plug-and-play real-time logs feature. We're introducing a new look for build logs, enabling quick glances at detailed logs and refined serverless function logs, including real-time requests and errors, making it easier to understand deployment behavior. For more complex needs, we recommend installing a Log Drain integration to store logs.

Vercel, a platform for frontend developers, has made several updates to its features and functionality in March 2020. The company introduced changes to improve the user experience, such as a buffer period for deleted teams and personal accounts, allowing them to be recovered before their usernames and slugs are no longer available. Additionally, Vercel updated its support system, making it easier for users to access help when needed. The platform also made changes to its domains feature, allowing users to move domains between personal accounts or teams without any issues. Furthermore, Vercel improved its GitHub integration, adding new features such as a "Preview Deployment Suffix" fieldset and detailed instructions on how to disconnect integrations. Other updates include improvements to the Developer Tools Console, the removal of examples with no provided options in Project Settings, and changes to the .yt TLD availability. Overall, these updates aim to provide a better experience for frontend developers, innovators, and businesses using Vercel's platform.