Images Release Notes

July 2023

July 20

• 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.

July 17

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

July 6

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

June 2023

June 27

• 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 via the API. We will remove the Rocky 8.4 and 8.5 images from our platform in 30 days.

May 2023

May 4

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

January 2023

January 5

• 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

December 15

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

November 2022

November 16

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

October 2022

October 24

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

September 2022

September 9

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

August 2022

August 10

• 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.

August 8

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

July 2022

July 7

• 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

June 27

• 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

April 25

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

March 2022

March 22

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

January 2022

January 18

• 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

December 8

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

November 2021

November 9

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

October 2021

October 25

• 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

September 27

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

August 2021

August 31

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

May 2021

May 26

• 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

April 27

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

April 26

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

February 2021

February 11

• 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

December 7

• 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

November 24

• 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.

November 4

• 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

October 27

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

October 22

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

September 2020

September 8

• 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

August 1

• 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

July 23

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

May 2020

May 26

• 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

April 28

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

April 23

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

March 2020

March 11

• 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

January 30

• 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.

January 24

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

January 22

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

December 2019

December 18

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

December 17

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

December 12

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

October 2019

October 21

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

August 2019

August 14

• 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

July 12

• 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.

July 8

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

June 2019

June 3

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

May 2019

May 22

• 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.

May 1

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

April 2019

April 30

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

April 18

• 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

March 30

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

January 2019

January 16

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

October 2018

October 18

• 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

September 10

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

July 2018

July 27

• 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.

July 19

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

July 16

• 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.

July 3

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

June 2018

June 19

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

June 13

• 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

May 1

• 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

April 27

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