Roadie Local is coming, State of Backstage launches, and Announcements lands

The latest features and updates from Roadie.

💈 Roadie Local [coming soon]

We’re going on-prem.

We’ve been toying with this idea for a long-time and we’ve decided to go all-in on enabling Roadie to be run on customer infrastructure.

We call it Roadie Local.

More soon - we’re aiming for a beta launch in March, moving to general availability in Q2 2025.

💈 State of Backstage launches

We’re also launching a survey.

When a community reaches a certain level of maturity getting a good lay of the land each year becomes a good idea. Backstage has hit that point - maybe we’re even a little late to realise it - so we thought it was time to launch an annual State of Backstage survey.

This is a non-commercial activity for us. It’s solely to foster a greater sense of community and information sharing.

We’ll publish the report from this survey in Spring 2025 for free (of course).

Check it out on the state of backstage.io site.

🔌 Plugins & Integrations roundup

• Announcements plugin: we pulled in the Announcements plugin to give customers the ability to post updates and requests to their userbase within Roadie. It’s a plugin that’s been around for some time, but it’s developed markedly in the last year or so so we thought it was time. Enjoy!