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DigitalOcean, August 2026 new features

22 releases · 1 product · 1 GA · 2 Preview · 2 Deprecation

DateRelease
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
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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 12Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) paid plans support Managed Rules, which let you enable or disable...unverified
Aug 12The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent...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
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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

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