App Platform
App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to publish code directly to DigitalOcean servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
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Latest Updates
11 July 2024
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We have deprecated the following buildpack versions for App Platform:
- Python v1 buildpack. If your app uses this buildpack, we recommend upgrading to v4.
- JVM v0 buildpack. If your app uses this buildpack, we recommend upgrading to v1.
20 June 2024
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You can now forward logs from your App Platform app to your DigitalOcean Managed OpenSearch Cluster.
18 June 2024
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We have updated the following buildpacks:
- Ruby buildpack: Updates to the Ruby v2 buildpack are listed below. If you have an existing Ruby app that uses v1, we recommend upgrading to v2.
- Default Ruby version is now 3.1.4
- Adds Ruby versions 3.2.4, 3.2.3, 3.1.5
- Adds Ruby versions 3.0.7, 3.3.0, 3.3.1
- Go buildpack: Additional Go versions have been added and default versions of Go have been updated for Go v1. If you have an existing Go app that uses v0, we recommend upgrading to v1.
- Adds go1.21.8, go1.22.0, go1.22.1
- Adds go1.20.14, go1.21.7
- Defaults to go1.20.14 when Go version is not specified
- PHP buildpack: Updates to the PHP v2 buildpack are listed below. If you have an existing PHP app that uses v1, we recommend upgrading to v2.
- Adds PHP/8.2.18 - PHP/8.2.15
- Adds PHP/8.3.5 - PHP/8.3.2
- Python buildpack: Updates to the Python v4 buildpack are listed below. If you are on Ubuntu-22 and have an existing Python app that is on v3, v2, v1 or v0, we recommend upgrading to v4.
- Python buildpack v4:
- Default Python version for new apps is now 3.12.3
- Adds support for Python 3.11.9 and 3.12.3
- Adds support for Python 3.12 and 3.11.6
- Adds support for Python 3.8.19, 3.9.19 and 3.10.14
- Python buildpack v4:
- Ruby buildpack: Updates to the Ruby v2 buildpack are listed below. If you have an existing Ruby app that uses v1, we recommend upgrading to v2.
For more information, see all App Platform release notes.