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The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Public Preview) For more information, see the Available Models page.
We have launched the Memphis, Tennessee, USA (mem1) datacenter, which supports AMD Instinct MI355X Spot GPU Droplets and many other products. For the full list of supported products, see the regional availability matrix.
DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) now provides mirror registries: DigitalOcean-curated regional mirrors of popular AI container images, available in 11 datacenter regions. You can pull nvidia/pytorch and rocm/pytorch images from a …
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs are now available in MEM1 as Spot GPU Droplets in 1- and 8-GPU configurations. Spot prices vary daily based on available capacity. For pricing, see Spot GPU Droplet pricing.
Spot GPU Droplets are now available in public preview for supported GPUs in single-GPU and 8-GPU configurations. Pricing may change daily based on capacity. To compare the capacity tiers, see Spot GPU Droplets vs On-Demand GPU Droplets.
DigitalOcean has patched “Safe RET” across our AMD Droplet fleet. We applied the fix at the infrastructure level, and no customer action is required. For more information, see AMD’s security bulletin, AMD-SB-7061.
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Anthropic model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 5 August 2026: Claude Opus 4.1 Migrate to Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic-claude-opus-4.8) to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy …
Spend alerts are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alerts. You can create multiple alerts with incremental percentage thresholds, scoped to total spend, specific products, or, for organizations, specific …
Cloud firewall rules now support an action of allow or deny. Deny rules let you block traffic from specific sources, such as known malicious IP addresses, while allowing broader access to your services. Deny rules take precedence over allow …
We have launched the Kansas City, Missouri, USA (mkc1) datacenter, which supports GPU Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Spaces object storage, App Platform, Functions, and many other products. For the full list of supported products, …
PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verification. For setup, see How to Connect to PostgreSQL Database Clusters and Increase TLS Verification with sslmode.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now includes an optional peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin in public preview. The plugin uses Spegel to mirror container image layers across cluster nodes, so a node can pull layers from a peer that already has …
The following Moonshot AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Kimi K3 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Opus 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
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.
The following OpenAI model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 23 July 2026: GPT-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 …
We now support prompt caching for Gemma 4 for serverless inference.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-5.6 Luna For more information, see the Available Models page.
PostgreSQL Standard Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verification. For setup, see How to Connect to PostgreSQL Database Clusters and Increase TLS Verification with sslmode.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (ubuntu-26-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Model Evaluations is now renamed to DigitalOcean Evaluations.
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 …
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Sonnet 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The Agent Evaluations MCP server tool has been renamed to Evaluations.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Released v1.163.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds a vector-databases command group for managing vector databases.
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 …
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 …
A Fedora 44 (fedora-44-x64) Droplet base image is now available in the Control Panel and through the API.
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.1 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.2 For more information, see the Available Models page.
To comply with Peru’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. …
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 following Xiaomi model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: MiMo-V2.5-Pro 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 …
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.
The following Anthropic models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 15 June 2026: Claude 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), …
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.
The following Xiaomi model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: MiMo-V2.5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
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.
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 …
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Fable 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026 during each cluster’s maintenance window.