DigitalOcean Release Notes

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.

Configure request-based autoscaling in the DigitalOcean Control Panel, with the API, or with doctl.

Bandwidth detail CSV files are now in beta. The bandwidth detail CSV file includes information on bandwidth usage for your team’s Droplets, load balancers, and Kubernetes clusters.

Project spend CSV files are now in beta. The project spend CSV file contains estimates of your team spend by project. Share your feedback so we can continue to improve this feature.

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)

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.

SSO is configured per cluster with an issuer URL and client ID from your identity provider. You can enable it using doctl.

You can disable an app’s CDN cache, allowing you to use your own CDN instead.

Additionally, you can now enable enhanced threat control for Layer 7 DDoS protection and disable email obfuscation by updating the app spec.

When you sign up for DigitalOcean, you no longer need to add a payment method to your default team before accessing the control panel. You do need to add a payment method to create resources, invite team members, and create additional teams.

Fedora 40 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.

Now in public preview, if your app’s health check fails on App Platform, a liveness probe automatically restarts the app. Additionally, worker services now support health checks.

To set up health checks for your app, see How to Set Up and Manage Health Checks.

Released v1.94.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release updates the doctl auth init prompt and deprecates the --algorithm flag for load balancer sub-commands.

The following Moonshot AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:

• Kimi K2.6

For more information, see the Available Models page.

• A remote MCP server is now available for Functions, providing API-based access for AI tools to manage DigitalOcean resources.

Kimi K2.6 is now live through DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud, bringing frontier-scale intelligence optimized for autonomous workflows, long-running tasks, and multi-agent orchestration. Designed with a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture, K2.6 delivers the reasoning power of the largest models with significantly improved efficiency—making it practical for production use at scale.

Access the model now ->

To comply with the tax code of Republic of Moldova, we now charge a 20% VAT for customers in Moldova.

To comply with the South African Parliament’s 2025 fiscal policies, the VAT rate for customers in South Africa has increased from 15% to 15.5%.

DeepSeek’s latest frontier model, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, is now live on DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud, bringing planning-first intelligence, massive context handling, and cost-efficient performance to complex, multi-step AI workflows. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, it is optimized for agentic reasoning, long-context processing, and autonomous execution, making it easier to run production-grade AI systems at scale.

Access the model now ->

The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:

• DeepSeek V4 Pro

For more information, see the Available Models page.

The DOKS Cluster Autoscaler is now in general availability. See Scaling to Zero for recommendations to follow for scaling a node pool down to zero.

NVIDIA B300 GPUs are now available as multi-node GPU worker nodes in DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS), by contract only.

To add single- or multi-node B300 GPU worker nodes to your cluster, contact sales. See GPU Worker Nodes for all available GPU types and node pool slugs.