September 2026 - urBackend

FeatureImprovementFix

Week of 2026-09-22–2026-09-28

New features

More features on the Free plan — Free projects now include BYOK (your own Resend, OAuth, and AI keys), bring-your-own storage (S3 / R2), custom HTML email templates, and Analytics Pro. See Limits & Quotas. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)
Webhooks on the Free plan — Free projects can now create up to 3 webhooks, with automatic delivery retries. Pro stays unlimited. See Webhooks and Webhook limits. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)
Broadcasts on the Free plan — Marketing broadcasts now only require a configured BYOK Resend key. A Pro plan is no longer needed. See Mail Platform. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)

Higher Free mail quota — The Free plan now includes 50 emails per month, up from 25. Broadcast sends now count toward the same monthly quota as transactional mail. Failed broadcast sends don’t use up quota. See Mail limits. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)
Clearer ub status output — The CLI now shows your webhook count against your plan limit. Unlimited resources display as Unlimited. See CLI overview. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)
Updated pricing and upgrade screens — The pricing page and the dashboard upgrade modal now reflect the new Free and Pro plans. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)
New urbackend.in domains — The public API now lives at https://api.urbackend.in and the dashboard at https://app.urbackend.in. The previous bitbros.in hosts stop working after 30 October 2026. Please update your apps before then. See API overview. (by @mintlify in #412)

Webhook limit enforced reliably — Creating several webhooks at once can no longer exceed your plan’s limit. At the limit, creation returns 403 with Webhook limit reached. Editing, deleting, and testing existing webhooks still work. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)
Self-hosted Docker Compose starts cleanly — The bundled MongoDB now runs as a replica set. The APIs wait until the database is ready before starting. (by @yash-pouranik in #409)

FeatureImprovementFix

Week of 2026-09-15–2026-09-21

Expanded marketing site — The urBackend site now includes dedicated /features, /use-cases, /developers, and /mongodb pages so you can explore what urBackend does before signing up. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)
Comparison pages — New side-by-side comparison pages at /compare/firebase and /compare/supabase, plus a /compare index, help you see how urBackend stacks up against other BaaS providers. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)
Blog — A new /blog section launches with three posts: Getting started with urBackend in 5 minutes, MongoDB BaaS vs traditional backend, and Why we built urBackend. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)
Public changelog page — A /changelog page on the marketing site surfaces recent product updates in a timeline view, alongside the full changelog here in the docs. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)

SEO metadata and trust badges — Marketing pages now ship with full SEO metadata (Open Graph, Twitter cards, canonical URLs) and a trust-badges strip on the homepage highlighting the technologies urBackend is built on. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)
Refreshed navbar and footer — The site navigation has been rebuilt with dropdown menus grouping product, developer, and company links; the footer has been reorganized to match. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)
Updated pricing page — The /pricing page has been reworked with clearer plan comparisons. (by @yash-pouranik in #408)

Sitemap points to the right file — Requests to /sitemap.xml now redirect straight to /sitemap-0.xml, which contains the full list of marketing pages, so search engines can index every page. (by @yash-pouranik in 94c78f4)
urBackend favicon on the marketing site — The browser tab favicon on the marketing site is now the urBackend logo instead of the default Astro icon. (by @yash-pouranik in 96e96a3)
Accessibility and date fixes on landing pages — Addressed review feedback covering landing-page accessibility, date formatting, and other polish items. (by @yash-pouranik in c342601)

FeatureFix

Week of 2026-09-08–2026-09-14

replyTo on transactional mail — POST /mail/send and POST /mail/send/batch now accept an optional replyTo field (a single address or an array of addresses). When set, replies from recipients route to those addresses instead of your verified from sender. Available in the REST API, TypeScript SDK (mail.send() / mail.sendBatch()), and Python SDK. See Send mail and Mail SDK. (by @yash-pouranik in #402)

Empty mail bodies are now rejected up-front — Mail requests without any content (both html and text empty or whitespace) now fail validation with a 400 before hitting the mail queue, instead of enqueuing an empty message. Whitespace-only subjects are also rejected. See Send mail. (by @yash-pouranik in #402)