Platform Release Notes

Validated on 28 Apr 2026

April 2026

28 April

• You can now use DigitalOcean personal access tokens for authenticating serverless inference requests. You can use a personal access token as an alternative to a model access key when sending requests to the serverless inference API. Model access keys remain recommended when you need per-application scoping, VPC restriction, or credentials dedicated to inference workloads. For more information, see Serverless Inference Overview.

March 2026

16 March

• We have launched the Richmond, Virginia, USA (ric1) datacenter, which supports GPU Droplets, Kubernetes, and many other products. Learn more in the regional availability matrix.

December 2025

22 December

• The Ask Docs AI assistant is now available in public preview in the DigitalOcean Control Panel. Ask Docs lets you ask questions in natural language about any DigitalOcean product covered in the official documentation.

June 2025

2 June

• We have launched the Atlanta, Georgia (atl1) datacenter, which supports Droplets, Spaces, and many other products. Learn more in the regional availability matrix.

May 2025

13 May

• 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.

April 2025

17 April

• We’ve made some major visual and technical improvements to the product docs site.

January 2025

10 January

• We have updated our product lifecycle stages to private preview, public preview, and general availability. The new stages are consolidated and slightly modified versions of our original stages, which were beta, early access, and general availability.

September 2024

26 September

• We have reenabled the NYC2 datacenter. See the regional availability page for information on product availability in NYC2.

March 2024

15 March

• We’ve released feature preview, a way to opt into beta offerings from DigitalOcean.

October 2023

3 October

• Our DDoS Protection service is now available and active for all DigitalOcean customers at no additional cost.

  DDoS Protection covers Droplets, Kubernetes clusters, managed databases, load balancers, and assigned reserved IPs.

July 2023

26 July

• We have reenabled the creation of new resources in SFO2 for all customers.

November 2022

15 November

• We have launched the Sydney, Australia (syd1) datacenter region, which supports most Droplet types, managed databases, and other products. Learn more in the regional availability matrix.

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.

January 2021

31 January

• Due to capacity limits in the region, we have disabled the creation of new resources in SFO2 for new customers. Existing customers with resources in SFO2 are unaffected and can still create and destroy resources in SFO2.

May 2020

12 May

• The SFO3 datacenter region is now available.

February 2020

12 February

• We have renamed the Limited Availability (LA) product lifecycle stage to Early Availability (EA) to better represent the status of products in that stage. Products in Early Availability are fully functional but not yet production-ready, and may be enabled only for specific user groups as part of an incremental roll-out strategy.

4 February

• We have made several improvements for seeking support, including a new support starting page that allows you to search DigitalOcean’s product documentation, Marketplace, and community tutorials from a single location.

October 2018

5 October

• The DigitalOcean feature request portal has been migrated to https://ideas.digitalocean.com.

June 2018

25 June

• Released new documentation site for the DigitalOcean Control Panel with updated content and product-specific navigation and search to help readers more readily learn how to use DigitalOcean.