# DigitalOcean changelog > A cloud provider offering virtual machines, managed databases and app hosting. - Vendor: DigitalOcean - Category: Developer Tools - Official site: https://www.digitalocean.com - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean) - Harvested from: Blog (https://ideas.digitalocean.com/api/changelog/feed.rss) - Entries below: 10 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. ## Releases ### Now Available: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 - Date: 2026-08-07 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-deepseek-v4-flash-0731 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a766139fcc54fba3284ffe6 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DeepSeek's latest release optimized for agentic coding and autonomous workflows, is now available through DigitalOcean Inference Engine. A 284B-parameter mixture-of-experts mod… - **added** — DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 model now available through DigitalOcean Inference Engine ### Now Available: Kansas City Data Center - Date: 2026-08-04 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-kansas-city-data-center - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a725245b046066e88c9388d Kansas City (MKC1) is now available as our newest DigitalOcean data center region. MKC1 expands DigitalOcean's footprint to 20 data centers across 11 global regions. MKC1 is a fully liquid-cooled data… - **added** — Kansas City (MKC1) data center region is now available as a new DigitalOcean data center ### Now Available: Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI - Date: 2026-07-27 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-kimi-k3-from-moonshot-ai - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a677d5095b6f74b6d8b2583 Kimi K3 is the first open 3T-class model, with a 1M-token context window that ingests entire codebases and long documents without chunking. Its sparse expert architecture (2.8T parameters, 16 of 896 a… - **added** — Kimi K3 model now available, the first open 3T-class model with a 1M-token context window for processing entire codebases and long documents without chunking ### Now Available: Claude Opus 5 from Anthropic - Date: 2026-07-24 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-claude-opus-5-from-anthropic - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a63e627e7f8d76777e41cc1 Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's latest flagship model for coding, reasoning, and knowledge work, is now available through DigitalOcean Inference Engine. Designed for demanding agentic workflows, Opus 5 del… - **added** — Claude Opus 5 from Anthropic is now available through DigitalOcean Inference Engine ### Now Available: model synthesis, a new server-side tool for DigitalOcean Inference Engine (public preview) - Date: 2026-07-23 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-model-synthesis-a-new-server-side-tool-for-digitalocean-inference - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a629affd4a94e44f5519605 Model synthesis is a new opt-in server-side tool in DigitalOcean Inference Engine. Run multiple models on the same inference request and get a single synthesized response, no custom orchestration requ… - **added** — Model synthesis, a new server-side tool in DigitalOcean Inference Engine that allows running multiple models on the same inference request and receiving a single synthesized response without requiring custom orchestration ### Now Available: GPT-5.6 Sol, Luna, and Terra - Date: 2026-07-10 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-gpt-56-sol-luna-and-terra - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a5160347e8bb6ff8fe91258 OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced), and Luna (fast, cost-efficient), is now available through DigitalOcean Serverless Inference. Sol delivers state-of-the-art performance across… - **added** — OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) are now available through DigitalOcean Serverless Inference ### Now Available: Prompt Caching in Public Preview - Date: 2026-07-01 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-prompt-caching-in-public-preview - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a4598bd481fc5aff86eba7f With Prompt Caching, DigitalOcean automatically recognizes repeated token prefixes and currently offers an 80% discount on cached input tokens compared to standard input pricing across supported model… - **added** — Prompt Caching feature now available in public preview with automatic recognition of repeated token prefixes ### Now Generally Available: DigitalOcean Evaluations - Date: 2026-07-01 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-generally-available-digitalocean-evaluations - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a453592481fc5aff860fd2c Teams can now validate any model or inference router configuration on their own data before production. Run structured LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations across catalog models, fine-tuned models, BYOM imports… - **added** — Teams can now validate model or inference router configurations on their own data before production using structured LLM-as-a-Judge evaluations ### Now Available: Claude Sonnet 5 - Date: 2026-07-01 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-claude-sonnet-5 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a447aa66c867a540219ffdf Claude Sonnet 5, Anthropic’s latest model for coding, autonomous agents, and professional work at scale, is now available through DigitalOcean Serverless Inference. Designed for production AI applicat… - **added** — Claude Sonnet 5 model is now available through DigitalOcean Serverless Inference ### Now Available: OIDC Authentication for Managed Kubernetes - Date: 2026-06-30 - Original notes: https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-oidc-authentication-for-managed-kubernetes - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/digitalocean/releases/feed-6a4429d6429b48432786793c DOKS clusters can now authenticate users through an external OpenID Connect provider. Each cluster has its own independent configuration managed via doctl, so dev, staging, and production environments… - **added** — DOKS clusters can now authenticate users through an external OpenID Connect provider with independent configuration managed per cluster