Platform Release Notes

April 2025

17 April

• We’ve made some major visual and technical improvements to the product docs site.

January 2025

10 January

• We have updated our product lifecycle stages to private preview, public preview, and general availability. The new stages are consolidated and slightly modified versions of our original stages, which were beta, early access, and general availability.

September 2024

26 September

• We have reenabled the NYC2 datacenter. See the regional availability page for information on product availability in NYC2.

March 2024

15 March

• We’ve released feature preview, a way to opt into beta offerings from DigitalOcean.

October 2023

3 October

• Our DDoS Protection service is now available and active for all DigitalOcean customers at no additional cost.

  DDoS Protection covers Droplets, Kubernetes clusters, managed databases, load balancers, and assigned reserved IPs.

July 2023

26 July

• We have reenabled the creation of new resources in SFO2 for all customers.

November 2022

15 November

• We have launched the Sydney, Australia (syd1) datacenter region, which supports most Droplet types, managed databases, and other products. Learn more in the regional availability matrix.

June 2022

27 June

• 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.

January 2021

31 January

• Due to capacity limits in the region, we have disabled the creation of new resources in SFO2 for new customers. Existing customers with resources in SFO2 are unaffected and can still create and destroy resources in SFO2.

May 2020

12 May

• The SFO3 datacenter region is now available.

February 2020

12 February

• We have renamed the Limited Availability (LA) product lifecycle stage to Early Availability (EA) to better represent the status of products in that stage. Products in Early Availability are fully functional but not yet production-ready, and may be enabled only for specific user groups as part of an incremental roll-out strategy.

4 February

• We have made several improvements for seeking support, including a new support starting page that allows you to search DigitalOcean’s product documentation, Marketplace, and community tutorials from a single location.

October 2018

5 October

• The DigitalOcean feature request portal has been migrated to https://ideas.digitalocean.com.

June 2018

25 June

• Released new documentation site for the DigitalOcean Control Panel with updated content and product-specific navigation and search to help readers more readily learn how to use DigitalOcean.