Release Notes

Last verified 30 Jul 2026

Copy page as Markdown View page as Markdown

Release notes track incremental improvements and major releases for the DigitalOcean cloud platform.

This page lists notes from the last 90 days. For AI tools, prefer Recent Release Notes (/release-notes/recent/ or JSON). For the full history, see the release notes archive.

You can subscribe to the release notes RSS feed.

Due to the high frequency of its updates, we keep a separate changelog for Kubernetes version updates

September 2026

29 September

  • Isolated Worker Nodes for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) are now in general availability. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather than only protected by a firewall.

    Outbound traffic, including node provisioning and container image pulls, routes through a VPC NAT Gateway, and other resources in the same VPC reach the nodes over private addresses. The Kubernetes API server stays publicly reachable so you can still manage the cluster. You can enable isolation only when you create a cluster running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.

28 September

25 September

23 September

  • The following TypeSafe AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for inference:

    For more information, see the Available Models page.

22 September

21 September

  • Managed Agents is now available in public preview for all users. Managed Agents is a set of services that gives every agent its own microVM execution environment and governed tool access so that developers can scale agentic work without having to build and maintain infrastructure themselves. Developers can pick from agent harnesses that they already use (like Claude Code or agents built with frameworks like LangGraph and Hermes), securely connect it to more than 16,000 tools and have their agents do meaningful work in seconds, from the Control Panel or the DigitalOcean CLI. Teams can also register custom OCI images as sandbox templates with Bring-Your-Own-Template (BYOT).

    DigitalOcean Harness Runtime combines the functionality of a lightweight microVM, built-in tools like chromium and a coding sandbox needed by agents to do work. The product also offers rich lifecycle APIs that persist conversational history and working state across sessions, along with pause/resume/fork semantics so that developers can control costs and adapt workflows to the nonlinear quirks of agentic work.

    Action Gateway gives agents governed access to 16,000+ tools through a single managed MCP endpoint. This includes DigitalOcean-maintained tools such as Web Search, Web Fetch, Browser Automation, and DigitalOcean infrastructure management APIs, along with connectors for platforms like GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Snowflake, and more. Teams can also extend the catalog with their own MCP servers and internal tools.

17 September

14 September

10 September

  • The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports adding and removing allow and deny rules based on IP addresses and CIDR ranges when you create or manage regional load balancers that use HTTP or Network traffic management. See How to Create Regional Load Balancers and How to Manage Regional Load Balancers. Global load balancers do not support firewall rules, and DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)-managed load balancers continue to use Kubernetes service configuration.

9 September

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU node pools in public preview. You can run worker nodes on interruptible Spot GPU capacity for AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X and NVIDIA B300 GPUs, at a lower, variable rate than on-demand GPU nodes.

    Spot GPU node pools work with the cluster autoscaler, and you can pair them with an on-demand GPU node pool as a configurable fallback. For supported GPU shapes, regions, pricing, and behavior, see Spot GPU node pools.

8 September

4 September

1 September

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public preview. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather than only protected by a firewall.

    Outbound traffic, including node provisioning and container image pulls, routes through a VPC NAT Gateway, and other resources in the same VPC reach the nodes over private addresses. The Kubernetes API server stays publicly reachable so you can still manage the cluster. You enable isolation when you create a cluster running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.

  • The peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is now in general availability. The plugin uses Spegel to mirror container image layers across cluster nodes, so a node can pull layers from a peer that already has them instead of the origin registry. This reduces the number of pulls that leave the cluster, lowers your exposure to external registries’ rate limits, and speeds up image pulls on clusters that reuse the same images across many nodes.

    The plugin is disabled by default and is available on clusters running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.

  • The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:

    For more information, see the Available Models page.

August 2026

28 August

27 August

25 August

  • v5 Droplet configurations are now available in the atl1, ric1, mkc1, and mem1 datacenters. They run on 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors for higher per-core performance and let you size compute, memory, storage, and networking independently. Choose Shared for shared vCPUs or General Purpose for dedicated vCPUs. v5 Droplets are billed per second at an hourly rate without a monthly usage cap.

    DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) supports a subset of v5 configurations in these datacenters, with 50 GiB or 80 GiB boot disks. For details, see How to Create a Droplet, Choosing the Right CPU Droplet Plan, and Choosing the Right Kubernetes Plan.

24 August

  • Updated NVIDIA AI/ML Ready (gpu-h100x1-base, gpu-h100x8-base) Droplet base images are now available in the Control Panel and through the API. The images are based on Ubuntu 24.04 (upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04) and include NVIDIA driver 580.173.02 and CUDA 13.1, providing the latest NVIDIA GPU support for AI/ML workloads.

    Despite their slug names, these images are compatible with all NVIDIA GPU Droplet types we offer. For more information, see Recommended Drivers and Software for GPU Droplets.

20 August

  • Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model available on DigitalOcean Inference has been upgraded to Qwen3.8-Max. Qwen3.8-Max supports vision and video input and a 1M-token context window. For more information, see the Available Models page.

19 August

  • Inference Router now uses cache-aware routing to maximize prompt cache reuse and automatically applies prompt caching to eligible Anthropic requests. You can opt out of prompt caching for supported models with X-Model-Affinity: none and control cache-aware model switching with the x-routing-max-switch-spend-pct header. For more information, see Use Prompt Caching.

18 August

14 August

13 August

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU node pools in public preview, starting with DOKS 1.36.3-do.0.

    DRA is an opt-in alternative to the managed GPU device plugins. Workloads that already request GPUs with extended resources such as nvidia.com/gpu or amd.com/gpu continue to work without changes after switching to DRA.

12 August

10 August

6 August

5 August

  • Spend alerts are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alerts. You can create multiple alerts with incremental percentage thresholds, scoped to total spend, specific products, or, for organizations, specific teams. Notifications arrive within an hour of your spend crossing a threshold.

    Existing billing alerts have been migrated to the Spend alerts page as an alert named Account Spend Alert.

  • The following Anthropic model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 5 August 2026:

    Migrate to Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic-claude-opus-4.8) to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.

4 August

  • We have launched the Kansas City, Missouri, USA (mkc1) datacenter, which supports GPU Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Spaces object storage, App Platform, Functions, and many other products. For the full list of supported products, see the regional availability matrix.

  • Cloud firewall rules now support an action of allow or deny. Deny rules let you block traffic from specific sources, such as known malicious IP addresses, while allowing broader access to your services. Deny rules take precedence over allow rules that match the same traffic. For rule actions and configuration steps, see How to Configure Firewall Rules.

3 August

July 2026

30 July

28 July

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now includes an optional peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin in public preview. The plugin uses Spegel to mirror container image layers across cluster nodes, so a node can pull layers from a peer that already has them instead of the origin registry. This reduces the number of pulls that leave the cluster, lowers your exposure to external registries’ rate limits, and speeds up image pulls on clusters that reuse the same images across many nodes.

    The plugin is disabled by default and is available on new clusters running Kubernetes 1.36 or later.

27 July

24 July

23 July

  • The following OpenAI model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 23 July 2026:

    Migrate to GPT-5.3-Codex (openai-gpt-5.3-codex) to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.

  • We now support prompt caching for Gemma 4 for serverless inference.

  • The server-side model synthesis tool is available in public preview on DigitalOcean Inference. The model synthesis tool is an API-only multi-model tool that runs up to eight analysis models in parallel on the same task, compares their results, and returns one synthesized answer. You can use the model synthesis tool with serverless inference, dedicated inference, and inference routers on the Chat Completions, Responses, and Messages APIs. Opt in from the Feature Preview page. For more information, see How to Use the Model Synthesis Tool.

  • Released v1.164.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds commands for managing Secrets Manager secrets and Network File Storage access points.

  • We have updated the following buildpack for App Platform:

    • Node.js buildpack: We added the following Node.js versions and updated the buildpack to version 342. Visit the Node.js buildpack to learn more about specifying a Node.js engine version.
      • Node.js 24.15.0

15 July

10 July

9 July

  • Ubuntu 25.10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

8 July

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports automatic node remediation in public preview. DOKS can automatically replace worker nodes that stay unhealthy, based on Kubernetes node conditions and rules you define.

    The Data Plane Operator runs in your cluster, watches node conditions, and replaces a worker when a condition matches your rules for a configured duration. You can act on standard kubelet conditions, such as Ready, and on custom conditions you publish from your own health checks. You configure remediation by deploying the DataPlaneOperatorConfig and NodeRemediationConfig custom resources to your cluster.

We can't find any results for your search.

Try using different keywords or simplifying your search terms.