Hello Xano Developers!
We're halfway through 2026, and we want to share what we've been building and where we're headed.
Software development is changing faster than ever. AI can generate code, spin up backends, and automate work that used to take teams weeks.
As AI writes more code across APIs, edge functions, databases, and services, the same business rules end up scattered across more places than any team can realistically govern. Building is getting faster. Understanding what AI built to trust what’s actually running is getting harder.
Frontends are becoming increasingly disposable. They're generated, iterated on, and replaced faster than ever. The backend is becoming the durable layer where business logic, integrations, and security rules live over time.
Xano is the backend development platform where teams build, govern, and scale the APIs that run their business. It centralizes business logic so developers and AI agents can build at AI speed while teams still understand, validate, and trust what reaches production.
This quarter, we made significant progress toward that vision.
What We Shipped in Q2
Q2 was one of the biggest quarters in Xano's history. We released v2.3 and v2.4, along with eight patches that strengthened the platform between major releases. Together, these updates focused on three areas: AI-assisted development, visual validation and governance, and observability.
Want the highlight reel? Watch the v2.3 release overview covering the new Agent, navigation, CLI, and Sandbox all in one video.
AI-Assisted Development
Xano Agent
The Logic Assistant is now deprecated and replaced by the Xano Agent.
Instead of working within a single endpoint, the Agent can build, modify, and debug across your entire backend, including APIs, functions, tasks, triggers, middleware, and your database. It uses XanoScript and the Developer MCP under the hood, so every change maps directly to Xano's visual workflows. Before anything is published, you can review every step in the visual function stack your team already knows.
Every AI-generated change stays visible and reviewable before it reaches production.
Xano CLI: General Availability
The CLI first shipped to Xano Insiders in late February and became generally available in April.
Developers can push and pull an entire Xano workspace as XanoScript, work from their preferred IDE, and integrate directly with existing Git workflows. AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex can work directly with Xano while every deployment still goes through RBAC enforcement and a full dry-run preview.
Alongside the CLI, we introduced Sandbox environments, which adds ephemeral environments as a safety layer. Developers can push changes into an isolated sandbox, review them visually, and promote them into a workspace branch only after validation. It provides a structured workflow for AI-assisted and code-first development while reducing deployment risk.
Read the docs or watch the intro.
Developer MCP
The Developer MCP gives AI coding agents the context they need to build in your Xano workspace from your local development environment. Agents can read, write, and validate backend logic through XanoScript while routing every change through the sandbox and deployment pipeline before it reaches production.
A new initialization skill also generates a workspace-specific playbook, giving AI agents the context they need to work safely inside your environment from day one.
Read the docs
XanoScript: General Availability
XanoScript is now generally available.
When AI generates your backend via the Xano Agent or external AI coding agents with the Developer MCP, it uses XanoScript. XanoScript maps AI-generated backend logic to Xano's visual builder. Developers and AI agents can work in code while every change remains understandable inside visual workflows. We are constantly working to improve XanoScript’s stability, and making it GA reflects that progress.
New to XanoScript? Start with the key concepts.
Visual Validation and Governance
A Rebuilt Workspace Experience
v2.3 introduced the largest navigation update we've ever shipped.
Today, much of the building happens in IDEs and AI tools outside Xano. Our job is to make sure everything that comes back into your backend is understandable, governable, and ready for production.
The top navigation, sidebar, publishing flow, draft management, footer, and global search were redesigned around that workflow. Global search now lives in the header. Publishing operates at the workspace level. Connect Hub brings together everything you need to connect frontends and AI tools. Branch and datasource controls stay visible throughout the application, making it easier to understand exactly where you're working.
Read the docs
Live Agent Diff Review
Agent changes are now visible as they're generated.
Instead of waiting until the end of a session, developers can watch visual or XanoScript diffs update in real time. Database schema modifications receive explicit confirmation prompts, while live file trees and change counts make it easy to continue working with the Agent without losing visibility into what's changing.
Tenant Center Improvements
Enterprise customers received several infrastructure improvements during the quarter, including tenant snapshots, dramatically faster deployments, a no-transaction deployment option for high-traffic environments, expanded Metadata API support, and tighter permission controls throughout Tenant Center.
Production Monitoring & Observability
Error Logs Dashboard
v2.4 introduced a new workspace-wide Error Logs Dashboard.
Rather than searching object by object, teams can now see failures across APIs, functions, tasks, triggers, and middleware in one place. Errors are grouped by signature to reduce noise and tracked through New, Regression, Ignored, and Fixed states. One click takes you directly to the source statement, and paid plans can automatically trigger workflows based on matching error patterns.
Request History Dashboard
Request History Dashboard has grown from a widget into a dedicated monitoring experience.
Six tabs now cover request history for every Xano primitive (APIs, Tasks, Triggers, etc), all in one place, with analytics for success rate, p95 duration, status distribution, HTTP methods, and traffic patterns. A 24-hour histogram helps isolate spikes, while cross-workspace user search makes it easier to trace activity across your backend.
Available on every plan.
Platform Reliability
Alongside these larger releases, we continued improving the platform itself.
Eight patches throughout the quarter improved XanoScript reliability, async execution, database stability, performance under load, and dozens of edge cases surfaced through error monitoring.
What We're Working On
We're continuing to invest in making Xano the platform where teams can confidently build, govern, and operate the systems that power their business.
Here are a few areas we're especially excited about:
A Better AI Development Experience
We're continuing to invest in making AI workflows faster, more reliable, and more connected to the tools developers already use. The gap between a prompt and a production-ready backend should continue to shrink.
A Faster XanoScript Runtime
Significant engine improvements are underway to improve function stack performance, especially for demanding workloads.
A Workspace Knowledge Layer for Build Agents
Specifications, documentation, and business rules are becoming first-class parts of the platform. If AI agents are going to build correctly, they need more than schemas. They need the context behind your business.
Next-Generation Observability
The monitoring capabilities released in Q2 are only the beginning. We're building deeper live insights, smarter alerting, and tighter connections between observability and AI-assisted testing.
Hosting and Runtime Flexibility
We're exploring new ways for teams to build, host, and serve more of their applications within Xano while keeping business logic governed and portable across environments.
Some of this work is already underway. Some of it is longer-term. All of it supports the same goal of helping teams move faster without giving up trust, governance, or control.
Thank You
Everything we shipped in Q2 was shaped by feedback from this developer hub. The bugs you reported, the features you requested, and the workflows you shared all influenced these releases.
AI is changing how software gets built. The next challenge is making sure the business logic behind that software stays centralized, understandable, and trustworthy as it evolves.
We believe teams should be able to build at AI speed without giving up governance or control. That's what we're building Xano to do, and we're grateful you're building it with us.
More soon.