Images Release Notes

January 2024

20 January

• Ubuntu 23.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 23.04 image from our platform in 30 days.

December 2023

5 December

• Fedora 37 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 37 image from our platform in 30 days.

November 2023

27 November

• The Fedora 39 (fedora-39-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

October 2023

25 October

• Ubuntu 23.10 (ubuntu-23-10-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

September 2023

25 September

• Password-based authentication for newly created Alma 9 Droplets will be disabled 30 days from today, on October 25, 2023, due to an incompatibility between Alma 9’s password authentication mechanism and DigitalOcean’s provisioning system. SSH-based login will remain available.

  Previously created Alma 9 Droplets will not be affected.

• Password-based authentication for newly created Rocky 8 Droplets will be disabled 30 days from today, on October 25, 2023, due to an incompatibility between Rocky 8’s password authentication mechanism and DigitalOcean’s provisioning system. SSH-based login will remain available.

  Previously created Rocky 8 Droplets will not be affected.

• Ubuntu 23.04 (ubuntu-23-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

July 2023

20 July

• The Ubuntu 22.10 distribution has reached end of life and is deprecated as of 20 July 2023:

  The image will be removed from the control panel starting on 20 July 2023 but will remain accessible for Droplet creation via the API for 30 days after the initial deprecation. If you need to use Ubuntu 22.10 after the image has been fully deprecated, you can create Droplets from a snapshot of a Droplet with that version or from a custom image.

17 July

• Ubuntu 18.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 18.04 image from our platform in 30 days.

6 July

• Fedora 36 reached end of life on 18 May 2023. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 36 image from our platform in 30 days.

June 2023

27 June

• Debian 12 (debian-12-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

• Rocky 8.4 and 8.5 have reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, these images are now only available via the API. We will remove the Rocky 8.4 and 8.5 images from our platform in 30 days.

May 2023

4 May

• Fedora 38 (fedora-38-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

January 2023

5 January

• Fedora 35 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 35 image from our platform in 30 days.

December 2022

15 December

• RancherOS is now fully deprecated on our platform and is no longer available in the control panel or API.

November 2022

16 November

• The Fedora 37 (fedora-37-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

October 2022

24 October

• Ubuntu 22.10 (ubuntu-22-10-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

September 2022

9 September

• Rocky 9 (rockylinux-9-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

August 2022

10 August

• Debian 9 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Debian 9 image from our platform in 30 days.

• Ubuntu 21.10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 21.10 image from our platform in 30 days.

8 August

• Rocky 8.6 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

July 2022

7 July

• Fedora 34 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 34 image from our platform in 30 days.

June 2022

27 June

• In order to improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

April 2022

25 April

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (ubuntu-22-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

March 2022

22 March

• Centos Stream 9 (centos-stream-9-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

January 2022

18 January

• FreeBSD 11.4 (zfs and ufs), Fedora 33, CentOS 8, and Ubuntu 21.04 have reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, these images are now only available via the API. We will remove these images from our platform in 30 days.

December 2021

8 December

• Rocky Linux 8.5 x64 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

November 2021

9 November

• Fedora 35 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

October 2021

25 October

• Ubuntu 20.10 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, you can now only deploy the Ubuntu 20.10 image via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 20.10 image from the platform on 25 November 2021.

• Ubuntu 21.10 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

September 2021

27 September

• Debian 11.0 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

August 2021

31 August

• You can now assign floating IP addresses to Droplets that use custom images.

May 2021

26 May

• Fedora 32 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 32 image from our platform in 30 days.

• Ubuntu 16.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 16.04 image from our platform in 30 days.

April 2021

27 April

• Fedora 34 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

26 April

• Ubuntu 21.04 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

February 2021

11 February

• FreeBSD 12.1 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the FreeBSD 12.1 image from our platform in 30 days.

December 2020

7 December

• CentOS 6 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the CentOS 6 image from our platform in 30 days.

November 2020

24 November

• Fedora 31 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 31 image from our platform in 30 days.

4 November

• FreeBSD 12.2 UFS and ZFS base images are now available in the control panel and via the API. The image slug for the UFS FreeBSD image freebsd-12-x64 has been replaced with freebsd-12-x64-ufs. We will support 12.1 for three months after the release date of 12.2, which is currently scheduled for January 31, 2021.

October 2020

27 October

• Fedora 33 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

22 October

• Ubuntu 20.10 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

September 2020

8 September

• Fedora 30 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 30 image from our platform in 30 days.

August 2020

1 August

• Ubuntu 19.10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Ubuntu 19.10 image from our platform in 30 days.

July 2020

23 July

• FreeBSD 11.4 UFS and ZFS base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

May 2020

26 May

• CoreOS Container Linux has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the CoreOS image from our platform in 30 days.

April 2020

28 April

• Fedora 32 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

23 April

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

March 2020

11 March

• Debian 10.3 and 9.12 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

• Users can now upload custom images using FTP URLs.

January 2020

30 January

• Ubuntu 19.04, FreeBSD 12.0, Fedora 28, Fedora 28 Atomic, and Feodra 29 have reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, these images are now only available via the API. We will remove the these images from our platform in 30 days.

24 January

• RancherOS 1.5.5 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

22 January

• CentOS 8.1 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

December 2019

18 December

• Fedora 31 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

17 December

• Debian 10.2 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

12 December

• FreeBSD 12.1 (ufs & zfs) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

October 2019

21 October

• Ubuntu 19.10 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

August 2019

14 August

• The default Ubuntu x64 base image has been updated from 18.04.1 to 18.04.3. For details about 18.04.3, see the Ubuntu release notes.

July 2019

12 July

• FreeBSD 12 (ufs & zfs) images have been updated to fix a bug related to private networking and SSH keys.

• FreeBSD 11.3 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

8 July

• Debian 10 (buster) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

June 2019

3 June

• RancherOS v1.5.2 base images have replaced RancherOS v1.5.1 base images in the control panel and API.

May 2019

22 May

• FreeBSD 12.0 (ufs & zfs) base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

• FreeBSD 10.4 (ufs & zfs) reached end of life and was removed from the control panel.

• Fedora 27 reached end of life and was removed from the control panel.

1 May

• Fedora 30 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API using the slug fedora-30-x64.

April 2019

30 April

• Ubuntu 14.04 reached end of life and was removed from the control panel.

18 April

• Ubuntu 19.04 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API using the slug ubuntu-19-04-x64.

March 2019

30 March

• Debian 8 has reached end of life and has been removed from the control panel and API.

January 2019

16 January

• The deprecated 16.04 One-Click LAMP slug, lamp-16-04, was removed from the API.

October 2018

18 October

• Ubuntu 18.10 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API using the slug ubuntu-18-10-x64.

September 2018

10 September

• Ubuntu 18.04 is now the default image when creating new Droplets from the control panel.

July 2018

27 July

• The default Ubuntu x64 base image has been updated from 16.04.4 to 18.04.1. For details about 18.04.1, see the Ubuntu release notes.

19 July

• Ubuntu 17.10 reached end of life today and was removed from the control panel and API.

16 July

• The Debian 9 base image was updated from 9.4 to 9.5. The image is available in the control panel and via the API using the slug debian-9-x64.

3 July

• FreeBSD 11.2 is now available through the control panel and through the API using the slug freebsd-11-2-x64-zfs.

June 2018

19 June

• Debian 7 reached end of life and has been removed from the control panel.

13 June

• Updated RancherOS container image from 12.0 to 14.0. Customers can learn more about the new version on Rancher’s release page.

May 2018

1 May

• Fedora 28 base image has been released using the slug fedora-28-x64 and fedora-28-x64-atomic. The images are now public to all users.

April 2018

27 April

• Ubuntu 18.04 is now available through the control panel and via our API using the slug ubuntu-18-04-x64