{"company":{"name":"Digitalocean","slug":"digitalocean","website":"https://digitalocean.com","category":"cloud-hosting"},"question":"What has Digitalocean shipped recently?","answer":"In the last 30 days, Digitalocean shipped 20 tracked updates. The most recent was \"Harness Runtime is now in Public Preview\" on 2026-09-22.","window":{"days":30,"updateCount":20,"returned":20},"generatedAt":"2026-09-22T17:05:03.828Z","updates":[{"title":"Harness Runtime is now in Public Preview","summary":"DigitalOcean launched Harness Runtime in public preview, running each agent session in an isolated Firecracker microVM with built-in pause, resume, checkpoint, and fork capabilities. Users can deploy agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, or custom containers.","date":"2026-09-22","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/harness-runtime-is-now-in-public-preview","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Action Gateway is now in Public Preview","summary":"DigitalOcean launched Action Gateway in Public Preview, providing a single managed MCP endpoint for agents to securely access over 16,000 tools. Credentials are brokered at execution time and never exposed to the model, enhancing governance and security.","date":"2026-09-22","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/action-gateway-is-now-in-public-preview","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Agents: One AI-native stack to power your intelligence","summary":"DigitalOcean introduced Managed Agents, a public preview service enabling teams to deploy AI agents (e.g., OpenCode, Codex CLI) with 16,000+ tool integrations, native Inference Engine integration, and per-second CPU billing. The service includes Harness Runtime for durable sessions and Action Gateway for governed tool access, with startup in 886ms and resume in 305ms.","date":"2026-09-22","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/managed-agents-public-preview","publisher":"digitalocean.com"},{"title":"21 September 2026 (managed-agents, agent-harness-runtime, action-gateway)","summary":"DigitalOcean introduced Managed Agents in public preview, providing each agent with a dedicated microVM execution environment and governed tool access to scale agentic workloads. The feature aims to enhance security and scalability for developers building AI-driven automation.","date":"2026-09-21","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/managed-agents-public-preview/","publisher":"docs.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Now Generally Available: Managed Databases Advanced Edition for PostgreSQL and MySQL","summary":"DigitalOcean announced the general availability of Managed Databases Advanced Edition for PostgreSQL and MySQL, featuring automated proxy-based failover, storage scaling up to 32 TB, and 46% lower storage costs. The edition also includes 4x more tunable parameters and deep console observability with seamless storage scaling in minutes.","date":"2026-09-18","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-generally-available-managed-databases-advanced-edition-for-postgresql-and-my","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"The Next Step for Mission-Critical Workloads: Managed Databases Advanced Edition","summary":"DigitalOcean announced general availability of Managed Databases Advanced Edition for MySQL and PostgreSQL, addressing high-growth workloads with up to 38% higher throughput and 50% lower p99 latency. The edition introduces rapid failover under 3 seconds, 46% cheaper storage at $0.115/GB/month, and deep observability for AI and high-concurrency workloads.","date":"2026-09-17","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-mysql-postgresql-advanced","publisher":"digitalocean.com"},{"title":"17 September 2026 (postgresql, mysql)","summary":"DigitalOcean announced the general availability of PostgreSQL Advanced Edition and MySQL Advanced Edition managed database clusters on September 17, 2026. These advanced editions provide enhanced features for managed database services.","date":"2026-09-17","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/dbaas-advanced-edition-ga/","publisher":"docs.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Now Available: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash","summary":"DigitalOcean now offers DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash via its Inference Engine, a lightweight model using a Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture with just 8B input and 16B output parameters. It reduces KV cache memory and storage by 75% and 87.5% respectively compared to the prior Flash generation while outperforming DeepSeek-V4-Pro on agentic and coding benchmarks under the MIT License.","date":"2026-09-15","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-deepseek-v41-flash","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Intelligence is yours. Let's keep it that way.","summary":"DigitalOcean CEO Paddy Srinivasan argues that closed AI systems risk concentrating intelligence in a few companies and calls for an 'Open Intelligence' movement. The company commits to open-source AI infrastructure, models, and tools, and announces the first Open Intelligence Summit on October 12-13 in San Francisco to rally the ecosystem.","date":"2026-09-14","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"content_marketing","signalTypeLabel":"Content","sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/intelligence-is-yours","publisher":"digitalocean.com"},{"title":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU Droplets","summary":"DigitalOcean added Spot GPU Droplets support to its managed Kubernetes service (DOKS), enabling automatic interruption handling via cordoning, draining, and PodDisruptionBudget enforcement. Cluster autoscaling dynamically adjusts GPU capacity based on demand, while labels, taints, and node affinity allow fallback to on-demand pools when Spot capacity is reclaimed.","date":"2026-09-10","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/digitalocean-kubernetes-doks-now-supports-spot-gpu-droplets","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Built for agents: Omarchy's pipeline moves to DigitalOcean","summary":"DigitalOcean now runs Omarchy’s production pipeline and has joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, serving as Omarchy’s agentic compute provider. A 1-click Omarchy Droplet for DigitalOcean Marketplace is planned.","date":"2026-09-09","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"partnership","signalTypeLabel":"Partnership","sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-joins-omacom-foundation","publisher":"digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Now Available: GPT-6 Astra","summary":"DigitalOcean now offers OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model through its Inference Engine, claiming the largest gains in agentic computer use and coding while reducing output tokens per task. The model is accessible without requiring a separate OpenAI account or contract.","date":"2026-09-08","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-gpt-6-astra","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Now Available: Memphis Data Center","summary":"DigitalOcean introduced its Memphis (MEM1) data center, expanding its global footprint to 21 data centers across 11 regions. MEM1 supports all core products, including Droplets, Kubernetes, Volumes, and networking tools, and is available immediately.","date":"2026-09-02","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"expansion","signalTypeLabel":"Expansion","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-memphis-data-center","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Now Available: Claude Fable 5.1","summary":"DigitalOcean now offers Claude Fable 5.1 across its Serverless Inference, Agent Platform, and ADK, delivering a 13.8-point jump on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and a 75% reduction in cache-read pricing. Anthropic positions it as a direct upgrade over Fable 5, with cost savings of 25-45% depending on workload.","date":"2026-09-02","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/now-available-claude-fable-51","publisher":"ideas.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813like812FollowDeepSeek145k","summary":"DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, an official update to its DeepSeek-V4-Pro model, featuring significantly improved agentic capabilities and performance in production environments. The model outperforms the preview version and competes with top proprietary models, with DSpark speculative decoding and three reasoning effort levels.","date":"2026-08-31","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813","publisher":"huggingface.co"},{"title":"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731like3.92kFollowDeepSeek145k","summary":"DeepSeek launched DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, an official release superseding the preview version with significantly improved agentic capabilities. Despite a smaller activated parameter count, it outperforms DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Preview) and rivals top proprietary models. The model includes a speculative decoding module and supports three reasoning effort levels (low, high, max).","date":"2026-08-31","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731","publisher":"huggingface.co"},{"title":"Introducing v5 Droplets: next-generation performance, sized to your workload","summary":"DigitalOcean introduced v5 Droplets powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance per core for compute-intensive workloads like AI/ML, transcoding, and high-traffic apps. For the first time, users can independently select vCPU, memory, and storage with transparent hourly pricing, while existing Droplet plans remain unchanged.","date":"2026-08-26","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/introducing-v5-droplets","publisher":"digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Private Preview: DigitalOcean Managed Agents Runtime Services","summary":"DigitalOcean introduced Managed Agents Runtime Services (M.A.R.S.), a fully managed cloud service enabling durable, scalable AI agent sessions with isolated execution, session persistence, and governed tool access. The service integrates Harness Runtime for execution and Action Gateway for secure API/SaaS integrations, supporting frameworks like Claude Code and LangGraph.","date":"2026-08-25","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"product_launch","signalTypeLabel":"Launch","sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/managed-agents-runtime-services-private-preview","publisher":"digitalocean.com"},{"title":"25 August 2026 (droplets, kubernetes)","summary":"","date":"2026-08-25","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/notes/2026/v5-droplet-configurations/","publisher":"docs.digitalocean.com"},{"title":"Patching at Fleet Scale, Twice: How DigitalOcean Closed Januscape and the AMD Safe RET Issue Without Customer Impact","summary":"DigitalOcean disclosed and patched two critical hypervisor vulnerabilities—Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) and AMD Safe RET—within weeks of discovery, with zero customer impact. The first was addressed via livepatching in 8 days, while the second required kernel updates and reboots for 1,600 AMD hypervisors.","date":"2026-08-24","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"security_incident","signalTypeLabel":"Security","sourceUrl":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/patching-januscape-amd-safe-ret","publisher":"digitalocean.com"}],"attribution":{"source":"Spyingbee","url":"https://spyingbee.com/updates/digitalocean","citation":"Spyingbee, \"Digitalocean updates\", https://spyingbee.com/updates/digitalocean (retrieved 2026-09-22)"}}