Release Notes

Release notes track incremental improvements and major releases for the DigitalOcean cloud platform.

September 2018

September 13

• New One-Click Application Droplets that you create with the Cloud UI will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For the next 60 days (through November 12, 2018 11:59pm EST), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS-based One-Clicks will continue to be available alongside the 18.04 version through the API.

• Removed deprecated Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence and MEAN One-Clicks from the control panel.

September 11

• Began incremental release of invoice aggregation for users with more than 3000 invoice line items.

• Removed the list of environments (Production, Staging, Development) from the list of project purposes when creating projects. Added them as a separate dropdown on the Project Settings page.

• Fixed a bug where a project containing only domains displayed an empty state that required users to scroll to access their domains.

• Fixed a bug where domains with capital letters were not displaying the project on the Domain page.

September 10

• Ubuntu 18.04 is now the default image when creating new Droplets from the control panel.

• Spaces are now available in the SFO2 region.

August 2018

August 14

• The Droplet console now supports pasting information into the console.

• Customers with multiple credit cards on file can now choose which one is billed by default on the billing page.

• Discontinued the CPU optimized Droplet 2GB/1vCPU plan.

August 9

• The GitLab One-Click application has been updated with the following changes:

  Updated	From	To
  GitLab Community Edition	11.0.0	11.1.4

August 1

• The 192GB Standard Droplet plan has been enabled in AMS3, BLR1, FRA1, LON1, NYC3, NYC1, SGP1, SFO2, and TOR1.

• Updated all product documentation to reflect the release of DigitalOcean Projects, control panel side navigation, and the restructuring of the Accounts section.

July 2018

July 27

• The default Ubuntu base image for Droplets has been updated from 16.04.4 to 18.04.1. For details about 18.04.1, see Ubuntu’s release notes.

July 25

Released the following control panel updates:

• Users can organize their resources into projects to fit the way they work. Projects allow users to group their Droplets, Spaces, Load Balancers, domains, and Floating IPs to align with the applications, environments, clients, and projects that they host on DigitalOcean
• The main navigation of the control panel moved from top navigation to left navigation with updated styles.
  

The changes are scheduled to reach all users by July 28.

July 24

• You can now edit the card holder name, expiration date, CVC code, and billing address for existing credit card on the Account Billing page.

July 19

• Ubuntu 17.10 reached end of life today and was removed from the control panel and API.

• The WordPress One-Click application has been updated:

  Updated	From	To
  Wordpress	4.9.1	4.9.7
  MySQL	5.7.2	5.7.22

• The Ghost One-Click application has been updated:

  Updated	From	To
  Ghost	1.21.1	1.24.9
  Ghost-CLI	1.5.2	1.8.1

July 18

• With the release of private networking isolation in NYC3, private networks are restricted to each user account in all regions.

July 17

• Private networking isolation was released in the NYC2 datacenter.

July 16

• The Debian 9 base image was updated from 9.4 to 9.5. The image is available in the control panel and via the API using the slug debian-9-x64.

• Private networking isolation was released in the NYC1 datacenter.

July 12

• Private networking isolation was released in the SFO1 and SGP1 datacenters.

July 11

• Local disk size for the 1vCPU Optimized Droplet plan (c-1vcpu-2gb) increased from 20GB to 25GB.

• Private networking isolation continued with releases in the LON1, AMS3, FRA1, and SFO2 datacenters.

July 10

• Private networking isolation was released in the AMS2, BLR1, and TOR1 datacenters. Communication over the private network in those datacenters is now restricted to other resources within an account or team.

July 3

• FreeBSD 11.2 is now available through the Cloud UI and through the API using the slug freebsd-11-2-x64-zfs.

July 1

• The changes to Droplet bandwidth billing announced on April 24 were put into effect.

June 2018

June 25

• 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.

June 22

• Spaces will send billing data for active users within 2 hours of usage, down from a 4-5 day processing time. Previously, some users who were not billed for overages because of the processing delay may see their bill go up based on their actual usage.

• GitLab One-Click application has been updated with the following changes:

  Updated	From	To
  Kernel	4.4.0-119-generic	4.4.0-128-generic
  GitLab Community Edition	10.6.4 dee2c87	11.0.0 b84bfb5

June 19

• Debian 7 reached end of life and has been removed from the control panel.

• Ruby on Rails One-Click application has been updated with the following changes:

  Updated	From	To
  Kernel	4.4.0-72-generic	4.4.0-128-generic
  Ruby	2.4.0	2.4.1
  Rails	5.0.2	5.2.0
  Nginx	1.10.0	1.10.3

June 13

• Updated RancherOS container image from 12.0 to 14.0. Customers can learn more about the new version on Rancher’s release page.

June 11

• Expanded Droplet View allows customers using the Dashboard to click on 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 or not Backups are on/off and if a Floating IP is attached.

June 5

• Released new Droplet feature to allow customers to boot Droplets from a Recovery ISO. Learn more in How To Recover from File System Corruption Using Fsck and a Recovery ISO.

May 2018

May 22

• Block Storage Volumes for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian 8+, CentOS, and Fedora Atomic can be automatically formatted and mounted when they are created.

May 17

• Turned on Droplet Search in the top navigation for all users. Allows users to quickly search for Droplets by name or IP address and go directly to the Droplet Page.

May 16

• Enabled users to sign up and sign in with their Google accounts. DigitalOcean users can switch their accounts back and forth between password-based and Google-based authentication. 

May 11

• Fixed issue with 2FA QR code generation for authenticator applications. Users with usernames over 26 characters were unable to generate a QR code. We now render up to 65 characters of a user’s entire email address and truncate if it is longer. This prevents errors for users with long email addresses, and renders more information in authenticator applications to help users with multiple accounts have more context.

May 8

• Load Balancers v1.5 is released to general availability in all regions, including backend upgrades, Let’s Encrypt Integration, and HTTP/2 Support.

May 1

• Fedora 28 base image has been released using the slug fedora-28-x64 and fedora-28-x64-atomic. The images are now public to all users.

April 2018

April 30

• Burst support rolled out to all nine block storage regions.

  Performance Expectations

  Droplet Type	IOPS	Throughput
  Standard	5K	200 MB/s
  Std (Burst)	7.5K	300 MB/s
  Optimized	7.5K	300 MB/s
  Optimized (Burst)	10K	350 MB/s

April 27

• Ubuntu 18.04 is now available through the Cloud UI and via our API using the slug ubuntu-18-04-x64

April 24

• Changes to Droplet Bandwidth Billing announced. The new billing plan goes into effect June 1. Charges for June, if any, will appear on the July 1 bill. Customers can view usage and billing information on their billing page.
  

April 20

• Debit cards from any country can be used for payment once a temporary pre-authorization charge of $1 is successful.
  

April 17

• 1vCPU Optimized Droplet launched.

• Spaces users no longer need to cancel their Spaces subscription via the Spaces UI when they want to stop using Spaces. Now, any time a Spaces user destroys their last Space, their pro-rated $5/month billing (if not in the free trial period) stops. Overage charges still apply if they were incurred prior to deletion of the last Space.

March 2018

March 30

• Released the MEAN One-Click application on Ubuntu 16.04, configured to install using docker-compose.

March 20

• Launched the new Dashboard experience to the control panel. The Dashboard replaces the Droplets page as the new default home page of the control panel. It provides “at-a-glance” visibility into active resources, like Droplets, Spaces, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and Domains, month-to-date current billing usage, shortcuts to team management, and other common tasks without having to navigate to different, often hard-to-find, sections of the control panel.

March 14

• Improved notifications of when credits will be applied to an account.

February 2018

February 15

• Resolved an issue where some Spaces customers were being rate limited even though they were well below the rate limiting threshold.

February 12

• Number of days left in your 60 day Spaces free trial is now shown on trial opt-in page and on details modal.
• Added improvements to reduce timeouts on the Spaces API.

February 9

• The Ghost one-click was updated to Ghost version 1.21.1.

February 6

• Block storage cluster in Bangalore and London upgraded to Ceph Luminous, reducing median cluster latency by 50%

February 2

• Deletion of a Space via the Cloud UI is disallowed if there are 100,000 or more objects in the Space. Once the Space has less than 100,000 objects within, it can be deleted by the Cloud UI.

January 2018

January 29

• Spaces now support:
  
  • version 4 of pre-signed URLs, allowing for easier use of 3rd party S3 compatible libraries.
  • scheduled deletion of objects via bucket lifecycle methods in the Spaces API.
  • previews of image, audio, and video files that are moused over in the control panel file browser.

January 25

• Spaces are now available in the Singapore (SGP1) region.

January 17

• Static Site Hosting and Custom Domains for Spaces have been released in Private Beta. Email jgannon+static@do.co to participate.

January 16

• DigitalOcean upgrades Memory, SSD and vCPU across all Standard, Flexible and Optimized Droplet Plans.

January 9

• With the release in AMS3, we now have Block storage volumes in all regions.