Modal Changelog
Product updates and improvements to Modal.
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Sunsetting Modal Notebooks, effective today
As of October 23rd, Modal Notebooks are no longer available. Users have changed the ways they work with Modal, with many preferring the IDE or agent harness of their choice. Existing notebooks can be downloaded indefinitely as iPython notebook files. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact support@modal.com.
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New Logs Search Experience
App logs and audit logs have a new search bar experience. You type your query as plain text, so you can edit filters with the keyboard like any other text instead of clicking through dropdowns. New operators are also available within app logs.
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Reflection Beam is now available on Modal
Deploy Reflection’s Beam as a Dedicated Endpoint on Modal. Built for coding, reasoning, and agentic workloads, Beam has 501B total parameters, 23B active per token, and a 1M-token context window.
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Muse Spark Open is now available on Modal
Access Meta’s Muse Spark Open through a Shared Endpoint with per-token billing on Modal. Built for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, Muse Spark Open supports multimodal understanding and a 1M-token context window.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available on Modal
Deploy NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL as a Dedicated Endpoint on Modal. With 120B total parameters and 12B active per token, it supports visual reasoning across text, images, and video for document understanding and agentic workflows.
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Step 5 Preview is now available on Modal
Deploy StepFun’s Step 5 Preview as a Dedicated Endpoint on Modal. This multimodal model supports software engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks, with 600B total parameters, 27B active per token, and a 1M-token context window.
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Faster grep on Volumes v2 for Sandboxes
We've recently made grep faster on Volumes v2 (~10x on cold caches and ~6x on warm caches).
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Give agents a full computer with VM Sandboxes
VM Sandboxes give your agent access to a full Linux computer.
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Faster Containers and Storage pages
Filtering, sorting, and navigation are now faster on the Containers and Storage pages.
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Sandbox Sidecars, a new isolation primitive, are now in Beta
Sidecars are containers that run alongside your main Sandbox on the same host, but with the same isolation as separate sandboxes.
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Python SDK 1.6.0 and JavaScript and Go SDKs 0.11.0
We’ve released version 1.6.0 of the Python SDK and version 0.11.0 of the JavaScript and Go SDKs.
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Set expiration times for API and service-user tokens
You can now set a token lifetime when creating API tokens and service-user tokens in the dashboard. Workspace managers can also enforce maximum lifetimes for member tokens created in their workspace.
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Network egress usage broken down by app
The Usage page now shows network egress per app.
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New controls for unauthenticated web endpoints
Filter by authentication, audit unauthenticated deployments, and block them per environment.
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User groups for RBAC-enabled workspaces
Assign environment roles to groups of members, created manually or synced from your identity provider via SCIM.
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Upload IdP metadata as XML when configuring SSO
SSO setup now accepts an XML metadata file in addition to a metadata URL.
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Zoom into custom time ranges in Container Metrics
Container Metrics now support zooming into custom time ranges with finer granularity.
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Synchronized time cursor across charts
Hovering a timeseries chart now highlights the same moment in every other chart — across tabs and windows.
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Improved container inputs view
Filter inputs by date and status, zoom the chart, and share filtered views by URL.
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New per-Sandbox CPU, memory, and CPU pressure charts
Three new aggregate metrics charts for apps that run Sandboxes.