Reserved IPs Release Notes

Validated on 18 Sep 2025 • Last edited on 27 Sep 2023

September 2025

18 September

• Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is now in general availability. BYOIP enables bringing your own block of IPv4 addresses to DigitalOcean. Once provisioned, assign your addresses to Droplets using the same interface and APIs as Reserved IPs.

June 2025

25 June

• Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is now in public preview. BYOIP allows you to bring your own block of IPv4 addresses to DigitalOcean. Once provisioned, assign your addresses to Droplets using the same interface and APIs as Reserved IPs.

17 June

• Reserved IPv6 addresses are now in general availability. Reserved IPv6 addresses are publicly-accessible static IPv6 addresses that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter. See How to Create Reserved IPs to get started.

February 2025

28 February

• Reserved IPv6 addresses are now available in public preview. Reserved IPv6 addresses are publicly-accessible static IPv6 addresses that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter. You must opt-in to the public preview to create reserved IPv6 addresses.

September 2022

23 September

• We have added the project_id field to the Reserved IP service’s API. The project_id field allows you to create and associate Reserved IPs with a DigitalOcean Project.

  Use the project_id and region fields in a Create a new Reserved IP request to create a Reserved IP within a project. You can assign the IP address to a Droplet later using a Reserved IP action request.

  We have added the project_id field to the following Reserved IP API responses:

  • Create a new Reserved IP (POST)
  • List Reserved IPs (GET)
  • Retrieve an existing Reserved IP (GET)
  • Initiate a Reserved IP action (POST)

July 2022

1 July

• The following pricing changes are now in effect:

  • A new $4 Droplet with 512 MB of memory, 10 GB of storage, 1 vCPU, and 500 GB of outbound data transfer is now available in NYC1, FRA1, SFO3, SGP1, and AMS3. The slug is s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb.

  • We have simplified pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some managed databases for better accuracy and predictibility.

  • The prices of Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Reserved IPs, and Custom Images have increased.

  There is no change to pricing for Spaces, backups, volumes, DigitalOcean Container Registry, or App Platform. There are also no changes to inbound data transfer or bandwidth pricing.

  This is our first major price change in 10 years, and we believe the new model better fits our understanding of our customers and the expanded breadth of our offerings. For a more detailed breakdown of the changes, see our blog post on our new pricing.

June 2022

27 June

• To improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

16 June

• We have renamed the Floating IP product to Reserved IPs. The Reserved IP service retains the same functionality as the prior service.

  We have added new API endpoints and fields (reserved_ips) to reflect the name change, but the service’s original Floating IP endpoints and fields (floating_ips) will remain available until the fall of 2023. Please update any automation, scripts, or services that use these endpoints to reflect these changes.

  If you are using the Projects API to query Reserved IP resources, the endpoint still returns reserved IP addresses in the floating_ips field.

August 2021

31 August

• You can now assign floating IP addresses to Droplets that use custom images.

May 2021

5 May

• We have updated the Floating IP API responses to better align with our newer API models. The droplet and region fields now use the same response models used in the /v2/droplets and /v2/regions endpoints. Specifically:

  • The private_networking feature is now displayed under the features field under droplet instead of the features field under region.
  • The vpc_uuid field now populates with the correct values.
  • The Droplet’s type displays base when the Droplet uses a base image (i.e. Ubuntu, CentOS).
  • The Droplet’s networks field now includes private and floating IP addresses, if applicable.

May 2020

15 May

• Unassigned floating IP charges will now appear on invoices. The first charge will appear on July 2020 invoices for all floating IPs that were not assigned to Droplets during the month of June.

August 2019

19 August

• Floating IP Address rate limit information was added to the DigitalOcean API Documentation.

June 2018

11 June

• Expanded Droplet View allows customers using the Dashboard to click a Droplet and quickly view additional information about the Droplet without having to go to the Droplet Page. It also updates the list of Droplets to display at a glance whether Backups are on/off and if a Floating IP is attached.