Recent Release Notes

Last verified 30 Jul 2026

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Release notes from the last 90 days. Prefer this page (or its JSON twin) with AI tools over /release-notes/: some web fetch tools cache popular URLs and can return months-old snapshots without a staleness warning.

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Upcoming Changes

July 2026

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.

  • 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 Use Server-Side Tools.

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

  • 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.

2 July

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now runs a node readiness controller in public preview. The controller watches node conditions and holds NoSchedule taints on nodes until required components, including GPU drivers on GPU nodes, report healthy, which prevents pods from scheduling onto nodes that are not yet ready. DOKS deploys and manages the controller automatically.

    For GPU node pools, you can also customize which GPU health metrics gate scheduling, without redeploying any components.

1 July

  • DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is now in public preview and enabled for all users. Weaviate is a fully managed vector database for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search workloads.

    Create clusters from the Vector Databases page, the /v2/vector-databases API, or doctl vector-databases. Select Weaviate as the engine and review the public preview disclaimer and legal terms in the create flow. For setup, limits, and pricing, see Managed Weaviate.

  • Claude Fable 5 is available again on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents. For more information, see the Available Models page.

  • Prompt caching for open-source models in serverless inference chat completions and responses API is now in public preview. Open-source models cache context automatically, so you do not need to set the cache_control or prompt_cache_retention parameters.

    Prompt caching is available for the following open-source models:

    • DeepSeek V3.2
    • DeepSeek V4 Pro
    • DeepSeek V4 Flash
    • Kimi K2.5
    • Kimi K2.6
    • GLM 5
    • GLM-5.1
    • GLM-5.2
    • gpt-oss-120b
    • MiMo V2.5
    • MiMo V2.5 Pro
    • MiniMax M2.5
    • Qwen 3.5
    • Qwen3 Coder Flash

    For more information, see Use Prompt Caching.

  • The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (ubuntu-26-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

  • Invoice and Billing Insights CSV files now include a tag_name column that lists the tags applied to each resource. Tag information is included only for resource usage on or after 1 July 2026.

June 2026

30 June

  • DigitalOcean Managed Valkey database clusters now support custom CNAME records, allowing clients to connect through your own hostname instead of the default *.db.ondigitalocean.com address. Custom CNAMEs are available through the API when creating clusters or when updating an existing cluster, and apply to the public network connection only. For more information, see Configure Custom CNAMEs for Valkey.

  • Private Droplets are now generally available in all regions. Private Droplets have no public network interface and no public IP address, using VPC-only networking with automatic integration with VPC NAT gateway, VPC peering, and VPC private DNS. See the Private Droplets documentation for setup instructions and limitations.

  • The following agent evaluation metrics are deprecated and should no longer be used:

    • Tone
    • Retrieved Chunk Usage
    • Prompt Perplexity

    Use the currently supported metrics listed in Agent Evaluation Metrics instead. To monitor deployed agent behavior outside of evaluations, use Agent Metrics and Runtime Logs.

  • 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.

  • Agent evaluations support for the Agent Development Kit (ADK), previously in preview, is now removed.

    To evaluate agents, use agent evaluations via the DigitalOcean Control Panel for supported agent types. To monitor ADK agent behavior, use Agent Metrics and Runtime Logs.

  • Insights, agent tracing, and conversation logs are deprecated for all agents, including agents created through the Control Panel, CLI, API, and Agent Development Kit (ADK).

    To monitor deployed agent behavior, use Agent Metrics and Runtime Logs instead.

  • The Agent Evaluations MCP server tool has been renamed to Evaluations.

  • Custom metrics are now available for DigitalOcean Evaluations. You can define your own metrics to evaluate model behavior against criteria specific to your use case.

  • DigitalOcean Evaluations is now generally available. Use Evaluations to create test cases, run evaluation datasets, and measure model performance against selected metrics.

  • Presets are now available for DigitalOcean Evaluations. You can save and reuse evaluation configurations, including the candidate model, system prompt, hyperparameters, judge model, and metrics.

  • Model Evaluations is now renamed to DigitalOcean Evaluations.

29 June

  • Serverless Inference now requires a positive prepaid account balance before you can send inference requests. Usage charges are deducted from this balance, and access is suspended if it reaches $0. You can add a prepayment manually or enable auto-reload to replenish your balance automatically. For more information, see Manage Serverless Inference Prepayment.

  • The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports light and dark themes. From the profile menu in the top right corner of the control panel, you can set your theme to a light or dark appearance, or match your operating system’s appearance setting.

25 June

  • You can now attach Network File Storage shares to multiple VPC networks, and expose specific subdirectories to single VPC networks by creating access points.

    A share can connect to up to 10 VPC networks in the same region. Access points restrict clients to a specific path within the share, and are isolated from one another so that clients on one cannot see the directories governed by another. This lets you host multiple tenants on a single share, each scoped to their own directory. For details, see How to Create and Delete Network File Storage Access Points.

  • Released v1.163.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds a vector-databases command group for managing vector databases.

24 June

22 June

18 June

17 June

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

    For more information, see the Available Models page.

  • DigitalOcean Inference supports server-side tools on serverless inference, dedicated inference, and inference routers. You can add the following tools:

    • Web search, web fetch, knowledge base retrieval, and remote MCP server tools to your requests in the Chat Completions and Responses APIs.
    • Provider-native tools such as bash, text editor, computer use, and web fetch for Anthropic models with the Messages API.
    • Function calling and tool search for OpenAI models on the Responses API, and Anthropic models on the Messages API.

    Web search and web fetch are in public preview. For more information, see Use Server-Side Tools.

  • Updated CentOS Stream 9 and CentOS Stream 10 (centos-stream-9-x64, centos-stream-10-x64) Droplet base images require a minimum Droplet size of s-1vcpu-1gb. You cannot create Droplets with these images on the s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb plan because the image exceeds the available disk size for that plan. For more information, see Linux Images for Droplets.

16 June

  • Released v1.162.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds support for the PostgreSQL and MySQL Advanced Edition engines, advanced_pg and advanced_mysql, in the databases commands.

15 June

12 June

10 June

  • We support passthrough tool search on the Messages API for Anthropic models and the Responses API for OpenAI models, enabling deferred loading of tools in agentic workflows. There is no additional cost to using tool search. For more information, see Use Server-Side Tools.

  • Debian 12 reached end of life on 10 June 2026. 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.

9 June

4 June

3 June

  • The public endpoint when creating a dedicated inference deployment is now disabled by default. For more information on how to enable access, see Use Dedicated Inference Endpoint.

May 2026

28 May

27 May

20 May

  • Request-based autoscaling for App Platform is now in general availability. Service components can scale automatically based on HTTP traffic metrics, including requests per second and P95 request duration, in addition to or instead of CPU utilization. Request-based autoscaling works with both shared and dedicated CPU plans.

    Configure request-based autoscaling in the DigitalOcean Control Panel, with the API, or with doctl.

19 May

  • MySQL 8.4 is now available for database clusters. New clusters use MySQL 8.4 by default. For version support and MySQL 8.0 end of life, see MySQL Limits.

  • DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports single sign-on (SSO) with OIDC in public preview. You can authenticate users to your Kubernetes clusters through an identity provider like Auth0, JumpCloud, Keycloak, or Okta, instead of using token-based authentication.

    SSO is configured per cluster with an issuer URL and client ID from your identity provider. You can enable it using doctl.

12 May

  • Registered businesses in Tanzania may now be required to withhold 15% of the gross amount of payments for digital services from DigitalOcean under the Tanzania Income Tax Act. Learn more about taxes in Tanzania.

5 May

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