Monthly Community Update -- October 2025

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Hi everyone,

This is October’s monthly community update. You can read last month’s update here.

We’re just two weeks away from Bubble Tour! Emmanuel is headed to Paris and London to meet the community in person, and we’re planning to unveil some exciting new AI updates. Get your tickets for Paris here (there are only about five left) and London here.

Addressing recent platform stability issues

Before I get into the rest of the updates, I want to acknowledge the recent outages and give you some context for how the team is addressing stability going forward.

For context, our team is upgrading the systems that route traffic from users to Bubble’s servers to improve performance and reliability. Instead of depending on custom servers we call “Balancer,” we have been working on re-routing traffic directly to AWS infrastructure. This work has led to a few outages:

  • During the weeks of September 15 and September 22, we ran into issues as we were ramping up the requests we route through AWS, instead of the balancer. You can read more here.

  • We successfully deployed the new load-balancing system last week. However, an issue occurred during what should have been a routine update, which resulted in 16 minutes of downtime on Monday, September 29. You can read more context from the team here.

I want our users to know they can rely on Bubble, so here’s what we’re doing to address these recent outages:

  1. Immediately pausing deployments related to the balancer until we solve the bug responsible for Monday’s outage.

  2. Sharing a more detailed post-mortem on the forum in the coming days.

  3. Prioritizing future deployments of this type during off-peak hours to reduce overall user impact in the case of any issues.

We’ve also heard you want more detailed information from us when issues do occur. This month, we’re migrating the platform that powers our status page from Atlassian to incident.io. While our engineers are always alerted immediately to platform issues, we want you to have the clarity you need when something goes wrong. The new status page plugs directly into our incident response system and will make it easier for us to update you in real time. We also continue to be committed to sharing public postmortems for major incidents, including explanations of what happened, how we fixed it, and how we’re preventing similar issues in the future.

I recognize just how frustrating these issues can be, especially when they happen close together, and want to apologize for the disruption.

Here’s what else happened this month:

What shipped last month

We shipped several improvements to the native mobile beta. You can now build a password reset flow for your users natively, rather than redirecting them to a web app. This gives your users a more seamless experience on mobile, and it gives you more flexibility when building by giving you the option to stick to mobile only. We’re working on shipping an update that will let you test this on BubbleGo. Read more on the forum here.

Native mobile plugins created after September 8 are free of charge for the remainder of the mobile plugin editor alpha. For context, we initially planned on opening the mobile plugin editor up for public beta access this summer, but adjusted our plans to focus more resources on platform robustness. Since the native mobile plugin editor will be in private alpha for a longer period than we anticipated, we established this new guideline to help more mobile app builders access plugins while they’re unable to build their own. You can access the native mobile plugins via the editor or in the plugins marketplace.

You can now use repeating groups on web apps to create reverse scroll repeating groups. Like the name suggests, this new setting allows you to build a chat interface that scrolls bottom-up. It’s ideal for social media or apps with AI agents. Read more on the forum here.

Our updated Ideaboard is live! On your end, we’ve added new fields to get a better sense of your idea/the problem you’re running into. On our side, we’re using these updated fields to better spot themes and tackle the updates that impact the most users. Read the forum post about it here. Looking forward to your submissions.

We also shipped a number of smaller boosts and bug fixes to improve your building experience.

Boosts:

  • The blueprint step of AI app generation is more responsive on mobile devices.

  • The tab bar of a mobile app is now hidden when a view is presented as a modal.

  • The data tab got some minor UI improvements to make it look more like the rest of the editor and make it easier to start generating data types with Bubble AI.

  • We shipped some optimizations to improve query and database efficiency.

  • We established clearer limits on API Connector response types.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug in how pricing plans were displayed if you had both web and mobile apps in a project.

  • Fixed a bug where collaborators couldn’t access branches on BubbleGo.

  • Fixed a bug where you had to tap a sheet reusable element twice in preview mode to get it to work.

What we’re working on

  • AI: The team is hard at work on more AI functionality, including AI Agent mode and mobile app generation. We’ll have lots more to share (and demo) at Bubble Tour, so I’ll hold off on updates for now. Attendees will get a first look (and first access), but watch for big announcements on October 16.

  • Mobile: We’re still prioritizing in-app purchases. This is mission critical as we head in to October. If you’re attending Bubble Tour, we’ll have @nick.carroll, our mobile PM, on site demoing that functionality. Make sure to stop by the booth! We’re also working on some changes to the mobile deploy flow to help you make sure you’re deploy-ready. That includes an extra validation step for App Store developer keys. If you’re building a project with both a mobile and a web app, you’ll be able to toggle between web and mobile app workload usage in your project’s logs tab, which will make it easier for you to understand WU usage and debug your live apps. That should be out by mid-October.Lastly, we’re making progress on magic login link functionality and mobile plugin editor, both of which are slated for beta release in Q4.

  • Release Notes: We’re finalizing work on a brand-new releases page. We’ll update this page with bug fixes and feature updates on a more frequent basis so you can get more consistent product updates. I’ll still be sharing this longer monthly update.

  • Table element: The table element is coming out of beta early this month. We’re making some updates, like pagination, footer rows, and visual customization options based on your feedback.

  • Security dashboard: When we acquired Flusk last year, our goal was always to integrate the product fully into Bubble. Soon it will exist fully under the Bubble domain as the “security dashboard.” We’ll be adding more intuitive in-product access points to the security dashboard to make it easier to run security scans as part of the normal building process. As part of this work we’re addressing a few annoying bugs like issues not automatically being marked as resolved and giving the page a visual refresh. We’re also adding the secrets scanner, an additional security check that detects leaked API keys anywhere in a Bubble app and suggests remediation steps.

  • Property editor: We’re on track to kick off an invite-only alpha for the redesigned property editor by early November. As part of that work, we’re also aiming to deprecate a feature that would show snippets of the manual when you hover over them in the sidebar. More to come soon!

ICYMI

BuyTicket is Brazil’s #1 ticket resale site. This is an awesome story of a Bubble app that grew in popularity thanks to word-of-mouth marketing (and a great product).

The founders of the CreateWith conference, @jamesdevonport and @nocodelife, talked about how they built their conference app on native mobile.The latest sections of Matt Neary’s Getting Started With Mobile course are live! Jump right into those lessons here, or start at the beginning here.

How to get involved

  • The latest cohort of Immerse, our fully-funded pre-accelerator, is up and running. This group of founders is focused on AI for good. Read up on what they’re building and meet the product mentors (you might recognize some familiar faces!) helping them get ready for launch.

  • Our About and Careers pages got a refresh. Relatedly, we’re also hiring for a number of new roles right now, which you can check out here.

  • If you’re in Sydney, Australia, there’s a community meetup on October 16. Register here.

New hires

We had three new hires join the team this month! Big welcome to Allison, a technical success specialist; Victor, a software engineer II (platform); and LD, a Bubble Developer.

That’s all for this month. Look out for a special mid-month edition after Bubble Tour! (Don’t forget to get your tickets for Paris and London.)

— Josh and Emmanuel

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I’m Looking foward to see the table element come out of beta.
Nice work from bubble team

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Glad to hear this! Feels like Bubble always goes down right in peak US hours :sweat_smile: definitely looking forward to future deployments happening off-peak instead.

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What is the probability that some elements we are using in the mobile editor now won’t be available later? Same goes for plugins.
Is it me or the mobile (native) date picker does not work?

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There’s no point in making the plugins free if there aren’t many plugin there in the first place. Is it possible to get access to the mobile plugin editor alpha?

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Thanks for the updates @josh.

Btw, I think someone forgot an element overflowing off the page on the Careers page that is creating a horizontal scroll, at least on mobile devices.

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What about these features announced at last year’s BubbleCon? Especially the third one. It’s especially important considering there is a 5 minute cap on workflows.

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Thanks!

Prioritizing future deployments of this type during off-peak hours to reduce overall user impact in the case of any issues.

With bubble users and end users using our apps all around the world, what exactly are “off peak hours”? Because an off peak hour for the US may mean the opposite in Europe or Asia.

I know it’s hard to find something that will please everyone but maybe there is a common ground somewhere.

Thanks!

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Came to say this. There will never be a non peak period for Bubble.

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This is a very simple question. You look at the total “load” across all time zones and pick the peak hours based off the load. You can go check out the status page to get a good idea of this. Page load times increase and decrease predictably with load. Has nothing to do with US or Europe or Asia.

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It’s easier said than done. There’s also engineering working hours to consider. Bubble has enough global reach that there will always be a considerable amount of apps that will be affected.

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Correct. That’s called a trade-off. I’m tired of people pretending they don’t exist.

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The thing is the current situation is already a trade-off. A timing change will be another trade-off. It’s just a different group of upset users.

If I had to make a decision in this situation where I lose either way, I’d rather prioritize the welfare of my engineers. Which I assume Bubble is currently scheduling around.

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I’m saying we should prioritize the masses of users vs a subset of them (which is what they’ll be doing). The arguments about “but Europe” are moot.

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I agree that determining a peak time isn’t all that easy.

I think a good way to handle updates is to always schedule them at the same time each week.

Say something like on Sundays between xxxx and xxxx we will be pushing updates.

At least that way, you know every week when the updates are coming, and you can keep an eye out for problems.

I have wondered sometimes if it’s: Let’s push this update and keep an eye on the forum to see if people start complaining :grinning_face:

That’s ok, I guess, but you get app owners who have no idea updates were coming and get blindsided by irate users who can’t use their app. Then you have irate app owners :upside_down_face:

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This is not fully.

It belongs in the editor (a tab called “security”), not as a slow webpage on another domain name build on bubble. Sorry. That’s a re-try.

But good updates otherwise. Especially the boosts and data tab improvements. Keep em coming. These are small in nature but really useful for the millions of builders using most of the expiation functions.

Now we just need data cell wrapping toggle and a refreshed time format not using legacy am / pm.