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image: true
author: nicholas-kissel
published: "2026-01-23"
category: changelog
keywords: ["weekly-update", "kv", "queues", "onboarding", "serverless", "skills"]
title: "Rivet Weekly Changelog 2026-04"
description: "- Low-level KV API for direct key-value operations - `getGatewayUrl()` from actor handle for raw HTTP/WebSocket connections - New onboarding experience in dashboard - Dashboard stability improvements - Actor queues for reliable message processing - Actor run handler for procedural actor logic - `c.keepAwake()` to keep actors alive while promises are running - Skill files for portable AI agent capabilities - Auto-detection of serverless upgrades to preemptively drain actors"
---

- Low-level KV API for direct key-value operations
- `getGatewayUrl()` from actor handle for raw HTTP/WebSocket connections
- New onboarding experience in dashboard
- Dashboard stability improvements
- Actor queues for reliable message processing
- Actor run handler for procedural actor logic
- `c.keepAwake()` to keep actors alive while promises are running
- Skill files for portable AI agent capabilities
- Auto-detection of serverless upgrades to preemptively drain actors

