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September 2026 digest
DateRelease
Sep 23The following TypeSafe AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for inference: Jev For more...unverified
Sep 22VPC subnets and routes are now in public previewunverified
Sep 22The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Sep 22The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: GPT-6 Sol...unverified
Sep 21Managed Agents is now available in public preview for all usersunverified
Sep 17PostgreSQL Advanced Edition and MySQL Advanced Edition managed database clusters are now generally availableunverified
Sep 14The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Sep 10The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports adding and removing allow and deny rules based on IP addresses...unverified
Sep 9DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU node pools in public previewunverified
Sep 8The following models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 8 September 2026: Kimi K2.5 GLM 5...unverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Sep 4The following OpenAI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Sep 1DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public previewunverified
Sep 1The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Sep 1The peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is now in general availabilityunverified
Aug 28The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Aug 27The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Aug 25v5 Droplet configurations are now available in the atl1, ric1, mkc1, and mem1 datacentersunverified
Aug 24Updated NVIDIA AI/ML Ready (gpu-h100x1-base, gpu-h100x8-base) Droplet base images are now available in the...unverified
Aug 20Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model available on DigitalOcean Inference has been upgraded to Qwen3.8-Maxunverified
Aug 19Inference Router now uses cache-aware routing to maximize prompt cache reuse and automatically applies prompt...unverified
Aug 18The following open-source models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 18 August 2026: Llama 3.3...unverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Aug 14The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Aug 13DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU...unverified
Aug 12The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Aug 12Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) paid plans support Managed Rules, which let you enable or disable...unverified
Aug 10AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs are now available in MEM1 as Spot GPU Droplets in 1- and 8-GPU configurationsunverified
Aug 10DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) now provides mirror registries: DigitalOcean-curated regional mirrors...unverified
Aug 10Spot GPU Droplets are now available in public preview for supported GPUs in single-GPU and 8-GPU...unverified
Aug 10We have launched the Memphis, Tennessee, USA (mem1) datacenter, which supports AMD Instinct MI355X Spot GPU...unverified
Aug 6DigitalOcean has patched “Safe RET” across our AMD Droplet fleetunverified
Aug 6The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Aug 5Spend alerts are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alertsunverified
Aug 5The following Anthropic model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 5 August 2026: Claude Opus 4.1...unverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Aug 4Cloud firewall rules now support an action of allow or denyunverified
Aug 4We have launched the Kansas City, Missouri, USA (mkc1) datacenter, which supports GPU Droplets, Kubernetes...unverified
Aug 3PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verificationunverified
Jul 30Kafka versions 3.9 and 4.1 are now available for database clustersunverified
Jul 30OpenSearch 3.3 and 3.6 are now available for database clustersunverified
Jul 28DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now includes an optional peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin in public previewunverified
Jul 27The following Moonshot AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference...unverified
Jul 24The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...unverified
Jul 23Released v1.164.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLIunverified
Jul 23The following OpenAI model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 23 July 2026: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max...unverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Jul 23The server-side model synthesis tool is available in public preview on DigitalOcean Inferenceunverified
Jul 23We have updated the following buildpack for App Platform: Node.js buildpack: We added the following Node.js...unverified
Jul 23We now support prompt caching for Gemma 4 for serverless inferenceunverified
Jul 15Managed databases are available in Kansas City (mkc1) with limited plan availabilityunverified
Jul 15The Gradient AI Go Library is deprecatedunverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Jul 15The Gradient AI Python SDK is deprecatedunverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Jul 15The Gradient AI TypeScript SDK is deprecatedunverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Jul 10PostgreSQL Standard Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verificationunverified
Jul 10The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: GPT-5.6 Sol...unverified
Jul 9Ubuntu 25.10 has reached end of lifeunverified
DigitalOceanDeprecation
Jul 8DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports automatic node remediation in public previewunverified
Jul 2DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now runs a node readiness controller in public previewunverified
Jul 1Claude Fable 5 is available again on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit...unverified
Jul 1DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is now in public preview and enabled for all usersunverified
Jul 1Invoice and Billing Insights CSV files now include a tag_name column that lists the tags applied to each...unverified
Jul 1Prompt caching for open-source models in serverless inference chat completions and responses API is now in...unverified
Jul 1The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (ubuntu-26-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the APIunverified
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