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Preview Deployments & Team Roles

October 15, 2024

v1.5.0 minor

This release introduces automatic preview deployments for pull requests and granular team role management.

New Features

Preview Deployments

Every pull request now gets its own preview URL automatically:

  • Unique URL for each PR
  • Automatic cleanup when PR is merged or closed
  • Comment on PR with preview link
  • No configuration required

Team Roles

Fine-grained control over who can do what:

  • Viewer — Read-only access to dashboards
  • Developer — Deploy to staging environments
  • Admin — Full access including production deployments
  • Custom roles available on Enterprise plan

Deployment Annotations

Add context to your deployments:

virex deploy --message "Fixed checkout bug"

Annotations appear in the deployment history for easy reference.

Improvements

  • Build times reduced by 15% on average
  • Dashboard loads 2x faster
  • Better error messages for common issues
  • Improved search in deployment logs

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed rare issue with environment variable interpolation
  • Resolved timeout on large file uploads
  • Fixed incorrect build cache invalidation