Secure and control the traffic to your applications with private networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.
Network load balancers are now in general availability. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. Read How to Create Regional Load Balancers to get started.
The 10.229.0.0/16
VPC IP address range is now reserved in all regions for DigitalOcean internal use. You may not create new VPC networks with subnets that overlap this range.
Network load balancers are now in public preview. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. You must opt-in to the public preview to create network load balancers.
IPv6 support for regional external load balancers is now in general availability. You may now choose between IPv4-only or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 networking when you create standalone load balancers. All DOKS load balancers created after 28 February 2025 are dual-stack.
Reserved IPv6 addresses are now available in public preview. Reserved IPv6 addresses are publicly-accessible static IPv6 addresses that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter. You must opt-in to the public preview to create reserved IPv6 addresses.
For more information, see the full release notes.