{ "days": 90, "generated": "2026-07-30T23:41:33Z", "html": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/recent/", "notes": [ { "date": "2026-07-27", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Moonshot AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nKimi K3 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-kimi-k3-model/" }, { "date": "2026-07-24", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nClaude Opus 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-claude-opus-5-model/" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "products": [ "app-platform" ], "text": "We have updated the following buildpack for App Platform:\nNode.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", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/app-platform-buildpacks-2026-07-23/" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "products": [ "doctl", "api" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/doctl-1-164-0/" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "We now support prompt caching for Gemma 4 for serverless inference.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-gemma-4-prompt-caching/" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-fusion/" }, { "date": "2026-07-23", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following OpenAI model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 23 July 2026:\nGPT-5.1-Codex-Max 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/gradientai-deprecate-gpt-5.1-codex-max/" }, { "date": "2026-07-15", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The Gradient AI TypeScript SDK is deprecated. Use the official DigitalOcean TypeScript SDK (DoTs) or the DigitalOcean API directly. For installation and quickstart examples, see SDK and Client Libraries.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/gradientai-deprecate-typescript-sdk/" }, { "date": "2026-07-15", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The Gradient AI Python SDK is deprecated. Use the official DigitalOcean Python SDK (PyDo) or the DigitalOcean API directly. For installation and quickstart examples, see SDK and Client Libraries.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/gradientai-deprecate-python-sdk/" }, { "date": "2026-07-15", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The Gradient AI Go Library is deprecated. Use the official DigitalOcean Go SDK (Godo) or the DigitalOcean API directly. For installation and quickstart examples, see SDK and Client Libraries.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/gradientai-deprecate-go-sdk/" }, { "date": "2026-07-10", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference:\nGPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-5.6 Luna For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-gpt-5-6-models/" }, { "date": "2026-07-09", "products": [ "droplets" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/july-eol-ubuntu-25-10/" }, { "date": "2026-07-08", "products": [ "kubernetes" ], "text": "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.\nThe 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/kubernetes-automatic-node-remediation-public-preview/" }, { "date": "2026-07-02", "products": [ "kubernetes" ], "text": "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.\nFor GPU node pools, you can also customize which GPU health metrics gate scheduling, without redeploying any components.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/kubernetes-node-readiness-controller-public-preview/" }, { "date": "2026-07-01", "products": [ "billing" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/invoice-csv-tags/" }, { "date": "2026-07-01", "products": [ "droplets" ], "text": "The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (ubuntu-26-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/ubuntu-26-04/" }, { "date": "2026-07-01", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.\nPrompt caching is available for the following open-source models:\nDeepSeek 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-open-source-models-prompt-caching/" }, { "date": "2026-07-01", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-claude-fable-5-readd/" }, { "date": "2026-07-01", "products": [ "vector-databases", "weaviate" ], "text": "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.\nCreate 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/weaviate-public-preview/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "Model Evaluations is now renamed to DigitalOcean Evaluations.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-models-evals-rename/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-models-evals-presets/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "DigitalOcean Evaluations is now generally available. Use Evaluations to create test cases, run evaluation datasets, and measure model performance against selected metrics.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-models-evals-ga/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-models-evals-custom-metrics/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The Agent Evaluations MCP server tool has been renamed to Evaluations.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-mcp-agent-evals-rename/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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).\nTo monitor deployed agent behavior, use Agent Metrics and Runtime Logs instead.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-insights-agent-traces-deprecation/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "Agent evaluations support for the Agent Development Kit (ADK), previously in preview, is now removed.\nTo 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-eval-adk-support-deprecation/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nClaude Sonnet 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-claude-sonnet-5-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following agent evaluation metrics are deprecated and should no longer be used:\nTone 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-agent-eval-metrics-deprecation/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "droplets", "networking" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/private-droplets-ga/" }, { "date": "2026-06-30", "products": [ "valkey" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/dbaas-custom-cnames-valkey/" }, { "date": "2026-06-29", "products": [ "accounts" ], "text": "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\u0026rsquo;s appearance setting.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/control-panel-dark-mode/" }, { "date": "2026-06-29", "products": [ "inference", "billing" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/serverless-inference-prepayment/" }, { "date": "2026-06-25", "products": [ "doctl", "api" ], "text": "Released v1.163.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds a vector-databases command group for managing vector databases.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/doctl-1-163-0/" }, { "date": "2026-06-25", "products": [ "nfs" ], "text": "You can now attach Network File Storage shares to multiple VPC networks, and expose specific subdirectories to single VPC networks by creating access points.\nA 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/nfs-access-points-ga/" }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "products": [ "droplets" ], "text": "A Fedora 44 (fedora-44-x64) Droplet base image is now available in the Control Panel and through the API.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/fedora-44/" }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nGLM-5.1 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-glm-5-1-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-24", "products": [ "kubernetes" ], "text": "Single sign-on (SSO) with OIDC for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters is now in general availability. You can authenticate users to your Kubernetes clusters through an identity provider like Auth0, authentik, JumpCloud, Keycloak, or Okta, instead of using token-based authentication.\nSSO is configured per cluster with an issuer URL and client ID from your identity provider. You can enable it using doctl, the DigitalOcean API, or Terraform.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/kubernetes-sso-oidc-ga/" }, { "date": "2026-06-22", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nGLM-5.2 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-glm-5-2-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-18", "products": [ "taxes" ], "text": "To comply with Peru\u0026rsquo;s tax regulation for digital services, DigitalOcean charges Value Added Tax (VAT) for customers with a tax location in Peru, beginning on 1 June 2026. These charges appear on invoices issued on and after 1 July 2026. Learn more about taxes in Peru.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/billing-taxes-peru/" }, { "date": "2026-06-17", "products": [ "droplets" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/centos-stream-minimum-droplet-size/" }, { "date": "2026-06-17", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "DigitalOcean Inference supports server-side tools on serverless inference, dedicated inference, and inference routers. You can add the following tools:\nWeb 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-server-side-tools/" }, { "date": "2026-06-17", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Xiaomi model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nMiMo-V2.5-Pro For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-mimo-v2-5-pro-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-16", "products": [ "doctl", "api" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/doctl-1-162-0/" }, { "date": "2026-06-15", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Anthropic models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 15 June 2026:\nClaude Opus 4 Claude Sonnet 4 Migrate to Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic-claude-opus-4.8) and Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic-claude-4.6-sonnet), respectively, to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/gradientai-deprecate-opus-4-sonnet-4/" }, { "date": "2026-06-12", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "Claude Fable 5 is no longer available on DigitalOcean Inference. Access to all other Anthropic models remains available. For more information, see the Anthropic statement on Claude Fable 5.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-remove-claude-fable-5/" }, { "date": "2026-06-12", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Xiaomi model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nMiMo-V2.5 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-mimo-v2-5-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "products": [ "droplets" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/debian-12-eol/" }, { "date": "2026-06-10", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-tool-search/" }, { "date": "2026-06-09", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nClaude Fable 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-claude-fable-5-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-05", "products": [ "mysql", "upcoming" ], "text": "Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026 during each cluster\u0026rsquo;s maintenance window.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/mysql-8-eol/" }, { "date": "2026-06-04", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nNemotron 3 Ultra For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-nemotron-3-ultra-model/" }, { "date": "2026-06-03", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-dedicated-inference-public-endpoint/" }, { "date": "2026-05-28", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nClaude Opus 4.8 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-opus-4-8-model/" }, { "date": "2026-05-28", "products": [ "vector-databases", "weaviate" ], "text": "You can now use the DigitalOcean Control Panel to create, connect to, tag, resize, and restore Managed Weaviate clusters (in private preview). See the Managed Weaviate docs for more information.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/weaviate-control-panel-support/" }, { "date": "2026-05-27", "products": [ "droplets" ], "text": "Fedora 42 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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/fedora-42-eol/" }, { "date": "2026-05-27", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:\nDeepSeek V4 Flash For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-deepseek-v4-flash-model/" }, { "date": "2026-05-20", "products": [ "app-platform" ], "text": "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.\nConfigure request-based autoscaling in the DigitalOcean Control Panel, with the API, or with doctl.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/app-platform-request-based-autoscaling-ga/" }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "products": [ "kubernetes" ], "text": "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.\nSSO is configured per cluster with an issuer URL and client ID from your identity provider. You can enable it using doctl.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/kubernetes-sso-oidc-public-preview/" }, { "date": "2026-05-19", "products": [ "mysql" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/dbaas-mysql-8-4/" }, { "date": "2026-05-12", "products": [ "taxes" ], "text": "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.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/billing-taxes-tanzania-wht/" }, { "date": "2026-05-05", "products": [ "functions" ], "text": "A remote MCP server is now available for Functions, providing API-based access for AI tools to manage DigitalOcean resources.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/functions-mcp-server/" }, { "date": "2026-05-05", "products": [ "inference" ], "text": "The following Moonshot AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit and agents:\nKimi K2.6 For more information, see the Available Models page.", "url": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/inference-kimi-k2-6-model/" } ], "rss": "https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/index.xml", "title": "DigitalOcean Release Notes (last 90 days)" }