What we shipped
New features, improvements, and fixes across all Norcube products.
August 2026
Backup Cleaner restore tests for Supabase and managed Postgres
Restore tests now recognise provider-managed extensions (like Supabase's vault) as expected instead of flagging them as warnings, and the managed verify engine bundles more common extensions (pgvector, pg_graphql) so more databases restore clean. Backing up a Supabase database to your own storage now restore-tests green.
Backup Download backups and run restore tests from the CLI
The norcube CLI (v0.14.0) now proves you can restore without us: nrc backup download streams any backup straight from storage into pg_restore or mongorestore, nrc backup health shows restore-test pass rates per datasource, and nrc backup restore-test run drills one backup on demand. The command group is now nrc backup (snapdb still works as an alias).
Backup Failure alerts, missed-backup detection, and a notifications page
Backup now alerts you when a backup fails, when a restore test cannot confirm your data, and, via a dead-man’s switch, when a scheduled backup silently doesn’t run at all. Email, Slack, and signed webhooks; deduplicated with a single Recovered notice; on by default in every plan.
July 2026
Backup Honest verdicts: passed with warnings
A restore test that recovers your data but skips an object, say an index too large for the engine to rebuild, is now an amber passed-with-warnings instead of a bare pass or a misleading failure. The amber state flows through the restore-health charts, and a newly protected database has its first backup tested automatically.
Backup Automated restore testing
Backup now proves your backups restore. Restore drills recover a real backup into a disposable database, one Norcube spins up for the test or a scratch server you nominate, confirm the data came back, and tear it down. Run them on a schedule, on a sample of backups, or on demand; a Passed badge sits next to each backup and a restore-health score tracks every database.
Backup In-product restore
Restore any backup without leaving the dashboard: into a new database, over the existing one, or onto a fresh server you provision. A pre-flight probe proves the target is writable before anything runs, every restore keeps a full log, and target credentials are encrypted, used once, and scrubbed. Protecting a new database became a single guided step at the same time.
Backup Engine-version matching ends the pg_dump mismatch problem
The backup worker now carries pg_dump 15 through 18 and picks the one matching your server, detected automatically at connection time. A server newer than the bundled tools is caught when you connect, not at 2 a.m. in a failed run. MongoDB tooling was brought current the same way.
May 2026
DomainRadar CSV export for bulk-check results
Bulk-check results now stream out as CSV, so million-domain jobs land in your spreadsheet or pipeline without pagination gymnastics.
Backup A full audit log for Backup
Every sensitive action is recorded: datasource changes, credential updates, backup runs, downloads, deletions. Filter by action, target, actor, and time; system actions are attributed as first-class actors, and download-link generation is audited because a minted link is access to your data.
Members, roles, and invitations across every product
Invite teammates into your organization and control exactly what they can touch, per product, down to per-language translator roles in LangSync. Every permission check runs through one policy engine, and IAM changes are audit-logged.
Backup Bring your own bucket
Store backups in your own S3-compatible storage: Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, MinIO, or AWS S3 in your account. Every destination is verified end-to-end with a real write before it can be saved, so a typo never surfaces as a failed backup later.
Backup Download any backup, test connections, run backups on demand
Every successful backup is downloadable as a gzip archive straight from the dashboard. A one-click connection test catches broken credentials before the 2 a.m. run does, and Run backup now takes a snapshot the moment you need one.
Usage-based billing with real free tiers, credits, and spending caps
Every metric shows its free quota against current and projected usage, credits are granted per organization and consumed oldest-first, and spending caps let you set a hard monthly ceiling with alert thresholds along the way. A mid-month reminder warns you before the invoice does.
Self-service account control: export, deletion, close-down
Export everything we hold about you, delete your account, or close a sole-member organization entirely, all self-service and GDPR-grade: deletion cascades through every product, storage included, and a final invoice is issued on the way out. Email and password changes went self-service too.
LangSync Sync your whole project from the CLI
The nrc CLI can now authenticate against your organization and sync an entire project in one command, with new source strings picked up and auto-translated along the way.
Backup Retention policies, enforced automatically
Every backup policy now has two retention dials working together: how many days to keep a snapshot and a minimum number of recent snapshots to always keep. Older archives are cleaned up automatically, including their storage.
April 2026
DomainRadar Brand Monitor: certificate-transparency alerts for your keywords
DomainRadar now watches public certificate-transparency logs for domains matching your brand keywords. Every hit is scored, analyzed by AI for impersonation risk, and lands in your inbox minutes after the certificate is issued.
DomainRadar Bulk domain checks, saved domains, and a name generator
Check availability for thousands of domains in one request, keep the interesting ones in saved lists, and generate brandable name ideas when nothing is free. Multiple check modes balance speed against certainty.