Container Registry Release Notes

Validated on 27 Apr 2026 • Last edited on 27 Sep 2023

April 2026

27 April

• DigitalOcean Container Registry now supports container images up to 100 GB.

• DigitalOcean Container Registry now supports image layers up to 20 GB.

• A remote MCP server is now available for DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR), providing API-based access for AI tools to manage your container registries, repositories, and garbage collection.

March 2026

27 March

• Automatic garbage collection for DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) is now available in public preview. When enabled, DOCR automatically cleans up unreferenced image layers in the background, freeing storage without requiring manual garbage collection runs or read-only downtime. For more details, see Automatic Garbage Collection.

November 2025

17 November

• Support for multiple registries when using the Professional subscription plan is now in general availability. You can create the registries using the DigitalOcean Control Panel, CLI, or API.

September 2025

29 September

• We have increased the size limit of images from 5 GB to 20 GB with a maximum size of 5 GB per image layer.

June 2025

11 June

• If your container registry uses the Professional subscription plan, you can now create up to nine additional registries (for a total maximum of 10) per team using the DigitalOcean Control Panel or API. You can create these registries in different regions and the storage is shared among them. This feature is in public preview.

August 2024

1 August

• The API call to get Docker credentials for DOCR now requires the permission registry:update instead of registry:create.

November 2023

14 November

• You can now deploy container images to App Platform using digests. Digests are immutable references to container images. Unlike tags, digests permanently refer to a specific iteration of an image.

  You can only deploy an image using a digest by updating your app’s spec at this time.

October 2023

20 October

• DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) is now available in BLR1. You can view the availability of all of our products by datacenter in the regional availability page.

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.

March 2022

9 March

• When creating a Container Registry, you can now choose one of the following datacenter regions to host it in: NYC3, SFO3, AMS3, SGP1, and FRA1. However, you cannot change a registry’s datacenter after creation.

November 2021

30 November

• You can now optimize your storage space in Container Registry with garbage collection and more management options for images and tags.

January 2021

5 January

• You can now do the following on App Platform:

  • Deploy apps from a registry that has been uploaded to a DigitalOcean Container Registry.

  • Deploy apps from source code contained in a GitLab repository.

  • Edit CORS policies for your app.

November 2020

24 November

• Released v1.53.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds support for container registry garbage collection of untagged manifests.

2 November

• DigitalOcean Container Registry is now in General Availability. Highlights include:

  • Three subscription plans that offer different allowances for repositories, storage, and bandwidth
  • 1-click method to configure DigitalOcean Kubernetes Cluster to use the registry
  • Garbage collection using the command line or the API
  • Ability to see the current storage usage in the control panel

April 2020

28 April

• Released v1.43.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release updates container registry features from beta to early access.

23 April

• Released v1.42.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of small UI improvements and support for additional container registry beta features.

November 2019

19 November

• DigitalOcean Container Registry has been released in Beta. To request early access, visit the homepage for Container Registry.