Changelog
New features and improvements to Namespace.
Fast Git LFS checkout
Starting with v6,
nscloud-checkout-action supports fast checkouts for Git LFS files.
February 3, 2025
Preview
VPC support
Instances of the same workspace can now interconnect in a virtual private network.
Reach out to
support@namespace.so to try it out.Remote cache for Pantsbuild
Accelerate your Pants build invocations from any platform using remote caching.
January 13, 2025
Preview
External sink for audit logs
Automatically export audit log data for your workspace to an external sink.
Reach out to
support@namespace.so to try it out.Job view for GitHub Runners
The dedicated job view allows correlating job steps with performance metrics and comparing a jobs performance to previous runs.
Systemd-based image for GitHub Runners
A base image for GitHub runners including systemd is available on request.
Reach out to
support@namespace.so to try it out.Global job deployment
You can now inspect which regions your workspace has access to. To change regions, contact support@namespace.so.
Access to macOS instances
Any workspace may now use macOS instances (including developer plan and trial customers).
Released Xcode 16.2 final
New images containing Xcode 16.2 final final were released.
macOS instances on latest Apple Silicon
Your macOS instances can now run on M4 Pro machines with up to 56 GB of RAM.
Reach out to
support@namespace.so to try it out.Transparent network egress
You can now look up the expected egress IPs/CIDRs for your workspace.
Concurrency Limits for Runner Profiles
You can now set the maximum number of concurrent instances per Runner Profile.
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support@namespace.so to try it out.Kubernetes version selection for nscloud-cluster-action
You can now select which Kubernetes cluster version to deploy within your GitHub workflows.
Released Xcode 16.1 final
New images containing Xcode 16.1 final, Xcode 16.2 beta 1, iOS 18.1 and 18.2 beta runtimes are released.
Compare performance to last runs
When looking at a single run in the dashboard, you can now understand quickly if it was a performance outlier.
Container overview with image references
At a quick glance, you can now map containers that ran to their image reference.
Sequoia macOS base image for GitHub Runners
The latest macOS Sequoia version is available as a base runner image through profiles and runner labels.
Cache Volumes for macOS GitHub Runners
Performant cross-invocation caching based on locally attached volumes has delivered the biggest speedup to our customers’ workflows.
Now caching is also available for our macOS runners. It can be configured via GitHub Runner Profiles and is compatible with nscloud-cache-action.
SOC2 & Trust center
You can now find our SOC2 report, controls and list of sub-processors, in our trust center.
Released Xcode 16 final
New images containing Xcode 16 final and iOS 18 final were released.
Wildcard TLS passthrough
Ingress rules can now be configured per instance, to enable the TLS passthrough of an arbitrary set of subdomains, wildcards included, into a workload running in the instance.
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support@namespace.so to try it out.Remote Display access for Macs
Pop in via Remote Display to any Mac run, right from our dashboard. Great for debugging or testing purposes.
Or use our CLI: nsc vnc {instanceid}.
Create an Ephemeral Mac instance from the Web
Want to quickly try something on Mac? Head over to our dashboard and create an ephemeral mac instance directly from the app.
Introducing Job Insights
Understand performance patterns over time by exploring tens of thousands of past runs, and plot their duration and queue times.
Improved network performance
Instances can now burst download and upload speeds up to 10Gbps. Higher capacities are coming soon to larger instance shapes.
Mac Silicon compute is now cheaper
We are committed to making testing iOS and macOS applications more accessible. We found efficiencies in our infrastructure and we want to forward those to you.
MacOS M2 Pro 6 vCPU / 14 GB RAM instances are now $0.06/minute (down from $0.078/minute, a 23% reduction).
The same reliability you can expect from Namespace, now cheaper. More details on the pricing page.
Usage breakdowns and exploration
You can now breakdown usage per purpose, platform, repository, and more. And you can also filter down your usage to particular workflows, and even github users.
Added compute shards in the US and Europe
We've brought up additional compute shards in Europe and the US. Reach out at support@namespace.so to explore if your workloads could benefit from optimized placement.
July 14, 2024
Preview
Introducing native Bazel caching
Namespace now has first-class support for Bazel caching. And it is now in preview, allowing you to accelerate your Bazel build from any platform.
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support@namespace.so to try it out.Native SSH and SFTP
Namespace now supports native SSH, allowing you to dial into your instance simply with
ssh <instanceid>@ssh.<region>.namespace.so. You can also either download or upload files with SFTP.New Actions base image: Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 24.04 based runner images are now available through profiles and runner labels.
Fast submodule checkout
Starting with v4,
nscloud-checkout-action supports fast checkouts for git submodules.Detailed filtering in Web UI
When browsing instances, you can now filter by platform, shape, repository and GitHub Actions workflow.
Create instances with Cache Volumes via CLI
You can now create instances with Cache Volumes through our
nsc CLI. Check out a practical example where you run containers with cross-invocation caching.Exposed reader role in UI
Reader roles allow you to grant readonly access to your workspace to other users. They can inspect instances, metrics and logs but cannot perform any mutating actions.
SAML-based SSO Login
Enterprise users can now use SSO login to access their Namespace workspace.
Reach out to
support@namespace.so to try it out.Refreshed usage reports
We've refreshed the usage page to provide you with more detailed information across longer periods of time, including multiple dimensions.
Email invites for new workspace members
By providing a list of email addresses, you can now invite new workspace members in bulk.
Protect Cache Access per Job
When sharing your cache amongst multiple jobs, you can now select which job may update the cache. This can be useful when fighting cache pollution or when sharing your cache with untrusted jobs.
Workspace Access Control
You can now promote workspace members to admins to grant them full access to your workspace. Multiple members can have admin rights at the same time.
Drilldown in GitHub integration
The GitHub integration page now allows you to filter which jobs to display. You can select repositories, workflows and only failed jobs.
Reliable and fast Artifacts Storage
Namespace provides reliable and fast artifacts storage for GitHub Actions. And provides new upload and download actions 100% compatible with GitHub original versions.
Cache Docker Builds in GitHub Runners
Your GitHub Actions can now benefit from cross-invocation caching without relying on Remote Builders. Namespace configures the Runner's Docker context to cache builds with runner's Cache Volumes.
Event timeline per instance
Every instance now reports an event timeline allowing you to understand how much time is allocated by each phase.
macOS support released for preview
Support for macOS instances on Apple Silicon (M2) is released for preview. You can configure macOS GitHub runners on Apple Silicon using the profile editor.
Aggregate Cache Volume Usage
You can now check your cache volume usage over the last 45 days from the storage tab. It includes both your daily cache at rest use, as well as the total active-cache use and finally your cache hit ratio.
More robust Cache volumes
We've deployed a number of changes that have improved the user experience of using Cache Volumes. The biggest change being that we guarantee every run now has enough disk space to generate a complete cache. This addresses the biggest piece of feedback: not being in a situation where you run out of disk space before you've stored all of the requested cache size.
No more team seat limits
We've removed team seat limits from plans. It was an arbitrary limit which was preventing collaboration. Add as many team members to your workspace as you need. Feature billing follows a usage based model. Check our Pricing information for more.
Multiple Builders per Workspace
For users with high loads of concurrent Docker Builds, Namespace Workspaces can now have multiple Builder instances per architecture. This feature enables load balancing of build requests across available Builder instances, ensuring predictable performance and reliable builds. Reach out at support@namespace.so if you'd like to have this enabled for your Workspace.
Auto-growing caches
Automatically grow your cache volumes to have a minimum configurable amount of disk space at start. This helps you strike a balance between effective cache sizes, and ensuring that your workloads have enough disk space to do what they have to do.
Protected Branches for Cache Volumes
With Protected Branches, you can designate a set of branches as primary branches (e.g. your main branch would be a primary branch); only pushes to primary branches perform updates to the cache contents, protecting caches from being poisoned with changes that are part of PRs. With Protected Branches, your PRs still get up-to-date caching, which is cloned from the last cache commit.
Build cross references
Namespace now surfaces cross references between builds, CI runs, and instances. Easily and quickly navigate from a CI run to any builds it triggered to check their logs and traces, and vice-versa.
New Actions base image: Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04 based runner images are now available through profiles and runner labels.
January 4, 2024
Preview
Start instances from private ECR images
Using workload federation with AWS, you can now create instances from private ECR images.
Bigger machines: instances with 512GB of RAM
You can now run instances with up to 512GB of memory. Reach out to support@namespace.so if you want to try it out.
Cache Action Modes
Select languages and frameworks to cache with
nscloud-cache-action, or continue to cache any file you want.Reserved concurrent capacity
With reserved capacity, Namespace guarantees your concurrent capacity is always available to you and provides an even higher level of isolation. Reach out to support@namespace.so to give it a spin.
Cache Volume lineage
Understand which volumes are attached to your instances. And hover a volume to reveal its lineage.
Storage utilization graphs per instance
You can now quickly check the storage utilization of an instance by visiting its summary page.
Custom Runner Images
Reduce GitHub Workflow time by creating your own custom runner image with pre-installed Ubuntu packages.
Cache Volumes are now in GA
Drastically speed up your workflows by caching arbitrary artifacts on local, high-performance storage.
Introduced Runner Profiles: Simpler GitHub Configuration
Simplify GitHub Runner configurations with Runner Profiles: Create custom profiles, assign labels, and configure caching, all with a single label reference in your GitHub workflows.
Homebrew Service for Remote Docker Builder
If you are a Homebrew user, you can now start our Namespace Remote Builder service to speed up your local Docker builds.
November 22, 2023
Preview
Long-lived sessions for nsc login
nsc now supports long-lived sessions, removing the need for daily logins.Volume fullness surfaces in the Dashboard
You can now get a quick overview over the fullness of your Cache Volumes from the dashboard.
Cache Action emits utilization
nscloud-cache-action now informs you about the fullness of your Cache Volumes.Build Trace Viewer is now in GA
Every Docker build handled by Namespace's Remote Builders gets its own trace view. You can intuitively debug why a particular build didn't perform as you expected.
Build errors now also surface in build logs
For quicker debugging, build errors are now also added to the logs view.
Caching for Git Repositories in GitHub Runners
You can speed up the checkout step of large repositories.
Introduced nsc volume commands
You can now list and release volumes used by your workspace from the CLI.
Introduced namespacelabs/nscloud-expose-kubernetes-action
Exposing a Kubernetes application for browser testing just became much simpler.
Ingresses are now listed in the instance dashboard
The instance dashboard now highlights with app is exposed with a public ingress and allows you to directly jump into the preview.
nsc: added a ingress generate-access-token command
Generate tokens and access your previews programmatically (e.g. for browser testing from CI).
namespacelabs/nscloud-cluster-action now outputs instance-id
You can now access the identifier of the Namespace instance hosting the created cluster programmatically within your GitHub workflows.
Utilization graphs per instance
You can now quickly check the CPU and Memory utilization of an instance by visiting the instance's summary page.
Significantly faster usage calculations
The workspace usage dashboard has been sped up drastically.
Simpler onboarding
Buildkite, GitHub and Federation integrations can now be modified by all users of a workspace.
Emit Namespace Runner Details in GitHub UI
Inside GitHub's
Set up job step, you'll now find a summary of the runner being used.nsc: added a top command
Quickly observe resource utilization by your application.
September 8, 2023
Limited Preview
Custom domain support for Namespace Previews
Namespace can now expose your previews on a domain of your choice - with TLS termination and automatic certificate management.
Simpler Git Checkouts with Buildkite
Integrated GitHub short-term credentials as a seamless checkout story that doesn't require SSH keys.
Usage Service API
Added a Usage Service API to our public Compute Service API. This allows you to query you usage data programatically.
GitHub Status integration
Namespace automatically checks GitHub's status and warns you when an outage may affect your runs.
August 31, 2023
Limited Preview
Namespace Secret Management
We've launched a limited preview of Secret Management with Namespace. Reach out tosupport@namespace.so to get enrolled and give it a spin.
Usage meters for included minutes
Map your current usage against what is included in your subscription.
Caching Docker images across GitHub Action invocations
Cache container image pulls (and unpacks, often the most expensive bit) across your GitHub Action invocations.
Instances with 32 vCPU and 128GB of RAM
You can now run instances with up to 32 vCPU and 128GB of memory. Reach out tosupport@namespace.so if you want to try it out.
Detailed Usage breakdown
You can now understand how your Namespace Compute usage is spread accross our various products.
Homebrew tap for nsc
You can use
brew install namespacelabs/namespace/nsc to install our CLI.Custom base images for Buildkit Agents
Provide Namespace with a custom base image to install additional tools or dependencies to run your Buildkite pipelines.
Cache Volume integration with Buildkite
Leverage our local, high-performance Cache Volumes to vastly speed up your CI runs.
Cache Volume integration with GitHub Runners
Significantly speed up your GitHub Action runs through Cache Volumes. Skip fetches from remote caches - your files are already available locally.
Introducing Cache Volumes
Cache volumes run on local, high-performance storage allowing them to vastly outperform remote caching solutions.
Custom shapes and architectures for Buildkite Agents
Shape your Buildkite Agents perfectly to your needs by selecting vCPU count, RAM size and architecture.
July 31, 2023
Preview
Automatic Kubernetes Previews
Namespace can automatically generate previews for your Kubernetes applications. Namespace’s ingress manager observes annotations on your services to expose previews automatically.
nsc: added a ingress list command
Quick access to all ingresses exposed by your application.
Custom localisation options for GitHub Runners
Instead of C.UTF-8, you can now switch your GitHub runners to use POSIX.
July 24, 2023
Preview
AWS Federation settings available in the Dashboard
You can now inspect your AWS Cognito federation configuration under Federation in the Dashboard.
Introducing Build Trace Viewer
Every Docker build handled by Namespace's Remote Builders now gets its own trace view. You can now more intuitively debug why a particular build didn't perform as you expected.
July 20, 2023
Preview
Initial Circle CI federation support
You can now call Namespace from your Circle CI workflows. For example, speed up your builds by relying on Namespace' Remote builders.
Remote builders: Larger default cache size
By default, Remote Builders now have 64GB of high-performance disk storage available for caching.
Labels can now be passed to new instances on creation
Labels are rendered in the Dashboard, and can be used to distinguish instances ("clusters") that have different purposes.
GitHub Actions Pricing Calculator: Check how much you'd save with Namespace-managed Runners
Check the different in spend based on number of minutes you spend in GitHub Actions.
Usage: builds now also surface in the accrued usage
In addition to compute unit minutes, builds are also available now under usage.
Builds: the summary now shows all active builders
Wondering if an arm64 builder is up and running as well? The summary page now shows all active builders per workspace.
32 vCPU instance shapes are now available
We've updated the maximum instance size from 16 vCPU to 32 vCPU for all your large parallel computation needs.
July 10, 2023
Preview
AWS: Introduced Workload Federation with AWS, both AWS to Namespace, and vice-versa
You can now seamlessly use your AWS resources from Namespace instances, and also create and manage Namespace resources from your AWS resources, by relying on Workload Identity Federation.
Notifications: you now receive a notification by email when a workspace hits its concurrency limits
Each instance you run concurrently, for example, by using GitHub Actions Runners, uses your concurrency limits. When these are hit, new instance are queued and not created immediately. Previously you'd have to monitor usage via the dashboard. But now you get notifications to your inbox when limits are hit. These notifications can be disabled as well.
nsc: added a workspace describe command
Useful when interacting with Namespace programatically, and you need to quickly check what is the id of your workspace.
Container failures now surface in the Dashboard
Errors of containers that fail are now surfaced automatically in the Dashboard, for quick debugging.
Review our Changelog Blog entries for updates prior to July 4th, 2023.