Load balancer health checks now support the HTTPS protocol. You can now configure load balancers to verify the health of your Droplets’ HTTPS endpoints.
The SFO3 datacenter region is now available.
v1.18.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release includes support for the backend keepalive option for the load balancer resource and data source.
Load balancers now allow you to set a keepalive option for target Droplets.
The DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service is now available for all customers. VPC replaces the private networking service. Existing private networks will continue to function as normal but with the enhanced security and features of the VPC service. See the description of VPC features for more information.
We began the incremental release of the DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. It will be available for all customers soon. VPC replaces the private networking service.
DigitalOcean Load Balancers no longer support downgrading TLS connections to TLS 1.1.
DigitalOcean Load Balancers no longer support downgrading TLS connections to TLS 1.0. We will stop supporting TLS 1.1 later this year.
DigitalOcean Load Balancers now support PROXY protocol version 1.
Pricing for load balancers has decreased from $20/month to $10/month.
Load Balancers v1.5 is released to general availability in all regions, including backend upgrades, Let's Encrypt Integration, and HTTP/2 Support.