April 2025

Storj shipped Object Lock through its S3 gateway during the first half of 2025, closing the gap that had kept it out of ransomware-resistant backup evaluations. Combined with the versioning added the year before, it made Storj a credible target for backup software.

Browserbase's SDK moves from an experiment to the default way people write agent browsing in TypeScript, mixing model-driven act/extract calls with ordinary Playwright in the same script.

Supabase announced a round reported at around US$200m at a multi-billion-dollar valuation, cementing it as the default managed-Postgres platform for application developers. The practical effect for buyers: the Postgres-native option on this list is the least likely to disappear.

Codex CLI shipped as an Apache-2.0 local agent, later rewritten in Rust with OS-level sandboxing — Seatbelt on macOS, Landlock on Linux. It remains the strongest containment story of any local harness on this page.

Cloudflare added a managed Apache Iceberg catalogue on top of R2 buckets, letting query engines read tables directly out of R2. It matters here because it makes zero-egress storage viable as an analytics substrate rather than just an asset bucket.

Browser Rendering gains a Playwright fork alongside the existing Puppeteer binding, plus REST endpoints for screenshots, PDFs and markdown — making it the cheapest credible option for non-adversarial rendering.