---
title: "Newsletter October'25"
description: "From the launch of Cloud Self-Serve and Medusa Cache to product variant images, a new POS starter, lots of integrations and guides, and major user stories with Eight Sleep and Material Bank."
url: https://medusajs.com/blog/newsletter-oct25
last_updated: 2026-08-13T14:03:20Z
---

# Newsletter October'25

_Published 2025-10-31 by Sebastian Rindom, Oliver Juhl, Nicklas Gellner in Company_

## Announcing Medusa Cloud Self-Serve

Medusa Cloud is now available from only $29/mo, with pre-configured infrastructure packed with supporting features.

- [Read the announcement](https://medusajs.com/blog/announcing-cloud-self-serve/)
- [Learn about Self-Hosting vs. Medusa Cloud](https://medusajs.com/blog/medusa-cloud-or-self-host/)
- [Check the Cloud plans comparison](https://medusajs.com/blog/cloud-plans-comparison/)

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IIl0zmc14Q)

## Launching Medusa Cache: 2.2x Faster APIs

[Our new built-in caching layer](https://medusajs.com/blog/announcing-medusa-cache/) delivers 2.2x faster response times across all core commerce APIs. It’s fully integrated with Medusa Cloud and available on all plans at no additional cost.

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTONAAs9fu0)

## Version 2.11.2: Product Variant Images

[This release](https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/discussions/13924) adds Product Variant Image support, a Medusa Index management API, and various minor improvements.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/10/cmhepsjk2fuo51s0ihns4xhru-xzuwtr20.webp)

## New Integrations This Month

[Check out October’s latest Medusa integrations](https://medusajs.com/blog/integrations-oct25/), featuring admin analytics, [Avalara](https://medusajs.com/blog/avalara-integration/) for automated tax handling, new payment and notification providers, and more.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/10/cmhem2c4fe6wuzk0i8tu35ahw-8gcw434b.webp)

## Eight Sleep × Medusa: How a $1B B2C Brand Rebuilt Fulfillment with Medusa

Learn why one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing B2C tech brands turned to Medusa to streamline its complex fulfillment across 10+ 3PLs and 30+ markets. [Read their story](https://medusajs.com/blog/eight-sleep/).

## Materialbank.jp: Building a B2B Commerce Operating System

In just four months, Material Bank Japan consolidated multiple systems (including commerce, PIM, and routing) into a single Medusa-powered platform tailored for their local market. [Read the full story](https://medusajs.com/blog/materialbank/).

## New POS Starter

A [new open-source POS starter](https://medusajs.com/blog/agilo-starter-pos/) for in-store sales, built with React Native by Agilo. Includes features like barcode scanning, product search, full checkout, onboarding, inventory/reservations, and customer linking.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/10/cmhemtdi4egf2zz0jkh9cexm7-zi8ah8ku.webp)

## Sell through ChatGPT with Medusa

[Implement the Agentic Commerce flows](https://docs.medusajs.com/resources/how-to-tutorials/tutorials/agentic-commerce) to start selling your Medusa products directly through ChatGPT and other AI agents.

![](https://assets.medusajs.com/uploads/2025/10/cmhemmk5bev3e1e0imvid3jce-p4jf2wie.webp)

## Integrate Meilisearch with Medusa

[Power your search with Meilisearch](https://medusajs.com/blog/meilisearch-integration/) for fast full‑text product search and automated product sync with custom workflows.

## Add Images to Categories in Medusa

[Add Product Category Images](https://medusajs.com/blog/category-images-tutorial/) that can be managed directly from the Admin and displayed in your Next.js storefront.

## Current and Future Work

We are wrapping up the following features for the next release:

- Global product options
- Carrying promotions over from orders to edits and exchanges
- Dependency clean-up, incl. reducing bundle sizing and vulnerabilities

In addition to these, we have started working on:

- Multi-language support for module entities
- Priority queues in the events system

Bear in mind, our priorities are subject to change, so we cannot guarantee that all of these will ship in the near term.

[Take part in the discussion on GitHub](https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/discussions/13924).