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November 2026 digestKimi K3.1 Pro model available on DigitalOcean Inference
The Kimi K3.1 Pro model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for both serverless and dedicated inference.
Persistent workspaces for DigitalOcean Harness Runtime are in public preview and are enabled per team
Persistent workspaces for DigitalOcean Harness Runtime are in public preview and are enabled per team. A persistent workspace keeps the files in /workspace after you remove the session or take a checkpoint, so a later session can start from …
GPT-6.1 Terra available on DigitalOcean Inference
The OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra model is now available for serverless inference on DigitalOcean.
Cuttlefish iOS app for DigitalOcean Harness Runtime in public preview
Cuttlefish, an iOS app for DigitalOcean Harness Runtime, is now in public preview, allowing users to manage sessions and tool calls from their iPhone.
DigitalOcean deprecates several OpenAI models
DigitalOcean has deprecated the o1, o3-mini, and GPT Image 1 models, recommending migration to GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT Image 2.
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime platform templates rebuilt for security
DigitalOcean has rebuilt Harness Runtime platform templates to address a remote code execution vulnerability in the Brotli decoder.
MiniMax M3.1-Flash model is available in public preview on DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean has added the MiniMax M3.1-Flash model to its serverless inference platform in public preview.
DigitalOcean App Platform PHP buildpack update
DigitalOcean updated the PHP buildpack to version 298, adding support for multiple PHP versions including 8.5, 8.4, 8.3, and 8.2 releases.
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: DeepSeek...
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Reflection AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: Beam...
The following Reflection AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: Beam For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: NVIDIA...
The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL For more information, see the Available Models page.
In public preview, you can now create spend alerts for Serverless Inference model access keys
In public preview, you can now create spend alerts for Serverless Inference model access keys. Each key’s spend is tracked against its own monthly budget, and you receive email alerts as it crosses the thresholds you choose. You can also …
Simulation is now available in public preview
Simulation is now available in public preview. Simulation tests agent behavior through generated, multi-turn conversations using scenario sets, user simulator models, judge models, and conversational metrics.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs are available in public preview in MKC1
DigitalOcean MicroVMs are available in public preview in MKC1. MicroVMs are lightweight virtual machines that run a container image in its own kernel, pause automatically when idle, and resume on the next request with memory, files, and …
DigitalOcean Signals is now available in public preview for Harness Runtime agents and Serverless Inference
DigitalOcean Signals is now available in public preview for Harness Runtime agents and Serverless Inference. Signals detects behavioral signals in conversations, such as a user asking for a human, a failed tool call, or an execution loop, …
The Cost Analysis tab of the Billing page now includes Serverless Inference Live Usage, which lists the...
The Cost Analysis tab of the Billing page now includes Serverless Inference Live Usage, which lists the estimated cost and token counts of your Serverless Inference requests by model and model access key, for both teams and organizations. …
Harness Runtime Bring-Your-Own-Template (BYOT) registration now requires a recommended base template...
Harness Runtime Bring-Your-Own-Template (BYOT) registration now requires a recommended base template (codex-base, opencode-base, claude-code-base, hermes-base, or langgraph-base). Recommended bases provide stronger isolation for custom …
The DigitalOcean API now supports querying Insights metrics and logs and managing alert rules and...
The DigitalOcean API now supports querying Insights metrics and logs and managing alert rules and notification channels in public preview. For available operations and endpoint details, see the DigitalOcean Insights API Reference.
Beginning 15 October 2026 for accounts that have never created a PostgreSQL or MySQL database cluster and 30...
Beginning 15 October 2026 for accounts that have never created a PostgreSQL or MySQL database cluster and 30 November 2026 for all accounts, PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition no longer offer plans with more than 4 GiB of RAM or support …
Isolated Worker Nodes for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) are now in general availability
Isolated Worker Nodes for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) are now in general availability. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather …
Valkey 9 is now available for database clusters
Valkey 9 is now available for database clusters. New clusters use Valkey 9 by default. Valkey 8 remains available for new and existing clusters. For version support, see Valkey Limits.
The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference and Agent...
The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit: Nemotron 3 Diarization For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following TypeSafe AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for inference: Jev For more...
The following TypeSafe AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for inference: Jev For more information, see the Available Models page.
DigitalOcean Insights is now enabled by default when you create a new DigitalOcean Managed Agents resource
DigitalOcean Insights is now enabled by default when you create a new DigitalOcean Managed Agents resource. Insights is in private preview.
Managed Agents is now available in public preview for all users
Managed Agents is now available in public preview for all users. Managed Agents is a set of services that gives every agent its own microVM execution environment and governed tool access so that developers can scale agentic work without …
PostgreSQL Advanced Edition and MySQL Advanced Edition managed database clusters are now generally available
PostgreSQL Advanced Edition and MySQL Advanced Edition managed database clusters are now generally available. To create an Advanced Edition cluster, see How to Create PostgreSQL Database Clusters or How to Create MySQL Database Clusters.
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash For more information, see the Available Models page.
The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports adding and removing allow and deny rules based on IP addresses...
The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports adding and removing allow and deny rules based on IP addresses and CIDR ranges when you create or manage regional load balancers that use HTTP or Network traffic management. See How to Create …
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU node pools in public preview
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU node pools in public preview. You can run worker nodes on interruptible Spot GPU capacity for AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X and NVIDIA B300 GPUs, at a lower, variable rate than on-demand …
The following models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 8 September 2026: Kimi K2.5 GLM 5...
The following models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 8 September 2026: Kimi K2.5 GLM 5 GLM-5.1 Nemotron-3-Super-120B (Public Preview) Migrate Kimi K2.5 to Kimi K3 (kimi-k3), GLM 5 and GLM-5.1 to GLM-5.3 (glm-5.3), and …
The following OpenAI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
The following OpenAI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GPT-6 Astra For more information, see the Available Models page.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public preview
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public preview. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather than …
- DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public previewPreview
- The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
- The peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is now in general availabilityGA
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.3 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.3 Flash For more information, see the Available Models page.
v5 Droplet configurations are now available in the atl1, ric1, mkc1, and mem1 datacenters
v5 Droplet configurations are now available in the atl1, ric1, mkc1, and mem1 datacenters. They run on 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors for higher per-core performance and let you size compute, memory, storage, and networking …
Updated NVIDIA AI/ML Ready (gpu-h100x1-base, gpu-h100x8-base) Droplet base images are now available in the...
Updated NVIDIA AI/ML Ready (gpu-h100x1-base, gpu-h100x8-base) Droplet base images are now available in the Control Panel and through the API. The images are based on Ubuntu 24.04 (upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04) and include NVIDIA driver …
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model available on DigitalOcean Inference has been upgraded to Qwen3.8-Max
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model available on DigitalOcean Inference has been upgraded to Qwen3.8-Max. Qwen3.8-Max supports vision and video input and a 1M-token context window. For more information, see the Available Models page.
Inference Router now uses cache-aware routing to maximize prompt cache reuse and automatically applies prompt...
Inference Router now uses cache-aware routing to maximize prompt cache reuse and automatically applies prompt caching to eligible Anthropic requests. You can opt out of prompt caching for supported models with X-Model-Affinity: none and …
The following open-source models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 18 August 2026: Llama 3.3...
The following open-source models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 18 August 2026: Llama 3.3 Instruct-70B DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Qwen3-32B Qwen3 Coder Flash Migrate Llama 3.3 Instruct-70B to Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E …
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 For more information, see the Available Models page.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU...
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU node pools in public preview, starting with DOKS 1.36.3-do.0. DRA is an opt-in alternative to the managed GPU device plugins. …
The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...
The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B For more information, see the Available Models page.
Spot GPU Droplets are now available in public preview for supported GPUs in single-GPU and 8-GPU...
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
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.
Spend alerts are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alerts
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
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 …
PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verification
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.
Kafka versions 3.9 and 4.1 are now available for database clusters
Kafka versions 3.9 and 4.1 are now available for database clusters. New clusters use Kafka 4.1 by default. For version support and Kafka 3.8 end of availability, see Kafka Limits.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now includes an optional peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin in public preview
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...
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...
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.
The following OpenAI model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 23 July 2026: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max...
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 …
The Gradient AI Go Library is deprecated
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 following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: GPT-5.6 Sol...
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.
Ubuntu 25.10 has reached end of life
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
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
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 …
DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is now in public preview and enabled for all users
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, …
Agent evaluations support for the Agent Development Kit (ADK), previously in preview, is now removed
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 …
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