Release Notes

Vultr release notes provide a transparent view into the ongoing improvements, feature releases, and platform enhancements across our cloud ecosystem. These notes are designed to keep customers, developers, and partners informed about both major releases and incremental updates to Vultr products and services. You’ll find details about new features, performance improvements, bug fixes, API updates, and infrastructure changes.

August 2026

• Granular IAM Compliance Permissions: Added a new IAM action ( account.compliance.* ) to control visibility of sensitive account compliance artifacts like DPAs and BAAs. This enables customers to delegate access to compliance documentation more precisely within their organizations.
• Trust & Compliance Relocated: Relocated the Compliance page to Trust & Compliance in the customer portal. This provides a more intuitive location for customers to access security and compliance documentation.
• Billing Warning on Server Stop: Added a warning to the instance stop confirmation modal to clarify that charges continue until a server is destroyed. This provides better transparency and helps customers manage their cloud spend.
• Destructive Action Warnings: We added clearer visual warnings when customers are about to perform high-impact or irreversible actions.
• Plan Link Speed in API: Added the link_speed field to the /v2/plans API response. This provides customers with programmatic access to the network throughput specifications for each VPS plan.

July 2026

• Single-Card A100 GPU Passthrough Plans: Launched 1x and 8x single-card A100 GPU passthrough plans as on-demand instances, replacing deprecated fractional vGPU plans.
• Slack Integration for Ticket Management: Launched a Slack-to-Vultr integration that lets customers manage support tickets directly from Slack via OAuth, using the existing Vultr API. Contact Vultr support if you're interested in participating in this pilot program.
• VKE Instant Labels & Taints: New VKE nodes now arrive with labels and taints applied immediately, eliminating a startup delay.
• VKE Workers Upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04: Upgraded VKE worker nodes to Ubuntu 24.04 for a newer supported OS baseline.
• "Created By" on IAM Groups: Added created_by_id and created_by_name fields to IAM groups, visible on the group management page (shows linked user or "SCIM" for IdP-managed groups).
• Cockpit Disabled on Rocky 10: Removed Cockpit from Rocky 10 images to align with standard server expectations.
• Debian 13 Serial/TTY Crash Fix: Fixed a serial/TTY crash affecting some Debian 13 VPS instances.
• Stop Instance Warning Modal: Added a modal warning that charges continue when an instance is stopped (not destroyed), clarifying billing for users.
• Bare Metal in Reserved IPs List: Added bare metal servers to the Reserved IPs attach list, with additional pagination for larger accounts.

June 2026

• OIDC Refresh Token Support: Added support for OIDC refresh tokens, enabling longer-lived authenticated sessions with secure token rotation.
• Monaco VAT Notification: Customers in Monaco received advance notifications about upcoming French VAT requirements, providing time to update VAT registration details before the effective date.
• Faster Bare Metal Provisioning: Bare Metal deployments now provision faster by optimizing the operating system boot process.
• VKE v1.36 Available: Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) now supports Kubernetes v1.36, providing access to the latest upstream features, improvements, and security updates.
• OpenBSD Image Updates: OpenBSD 7.9 is now available for deployment. OpenBSD 7.7 has been removed following its end of life.
• Fedora 42 End of Life: Fedora 42 has reached end of life and is no longer available for new deployments. Customers are encouraged to migrate to a supported Fedora release.

May 2026

• GPU Usage Graphs in Customer Portal: GPU customers can now view GPU utilization, memory usage, temperature, and power metrics directly from the VPS Usage tab in the Vultr customer portal. This enhancement provides real-time visibility into GPU performance without requiring support access or command-line tools such as NVIDIA System Management Interface (nvidia-smi).
• Expanded IAM Managed Policy Coverage: Added IAM managed-policy support for Account BGP, Compute ISO, and Inference endpoints (/v2/inference/*). This enables customers to apply more granular access controls and delegate permissions more precisely across these products and services.
• DNS & Anycast Routing Improvements: Reduced overall Vultr DNS latency for faster query resolution globally. Additionally, Anycast customers can now use a single BGP community (20473:7002) to simplify and optimize inbound traffic routing.
• Security & API Access Control Improvements: Applied a critical fix for CVE-2026-31341 (Copy-Fail) to mitigate the underlying vulnerability and help prevent future regressions in API access control behavior.
• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Operating System Support: Customers can now deploy instances using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, providing access to the latest Ubuntu release with updated packages, features, and platform improvements.
• openSUSE Leap 15.6 End of Life: openSUSE Leap 15.6 has reached end of life and is no longer offered for new deployments. Customers are encouraged to migrate to a supported openSUSE release to continue receiving updates and security fixes.
• AMD VM XML Compatibility Improvement: Removed the unnecessary spec-ctrl CPU feature requirement from AMD VM instance libvirt XML configurations. Previously included for all AMD VMs regardless of guest OS requirements, this change improves VM compatibility and simplifies instance configuration.

April 2026

• Introducing Clusters: Clusters are now available on Vultr, providing a streamlined way to deploy and manage groups of compute resources as a single unit. With automated fabric networking, clusters benefit from simplified connectivity, improved scalability, and more efficient management of distributed workloads across multiple instances. See the documentation.

• Milan Region Now Available: A new Milan location is now available on Vultr, expanding our global footprint in Europe. This new data center provides improved latency, regional redundancy, and additional capacity for deploying workloads closer to users in Southern Europe. Product availability includes:

  • Vultr VX1
  • Vultr Optimized Compute
  • Vultr High Performance Compute
  • Vultr Kubernetes Engine
  • Vultr Bare Metal – AMD EPYC 9255 only
  • Vultr NVMe and HDD Block Storage
  • Vultr Performance, Accelerated Object Storage
  • Vultr File System Storage
  • Snapshots and backups

  Coming soon:

  • Vultr Standard, Premium Object Storage
  • Vultr Bare Metal – AMD EPYC 4345P
  • Vultr Container Registry

• Introducing console.vultr.com: The new Vultr customer portal is now available at console.vultr.com, providing a modern, enterprise-grade platform for managing infrastructure. With a new design and built-in enterprise IAM capabilities (policies, roles, groups, service accounts, and organization management), Vultr's console delivers improved usability, scalability, and control for teams of all sizes.

• Archival Object Storage Tier Released: Vultr now offers a new, low-cost storage tier ($0.006/GB-month) designed for infrequently accessed data. This includes automatic lifecycle management and on-demand retrieval, helping optimize storage costs without sacrificing accessibility. See the documentation.

• Vultr Serverless Inference Improvements: Vultr's Serverless Inference has been upgraded to support the latest generation of models with enhanced performance. Improvements include KV caching, expanded tool-calling support, and overall throughput gains. In addition, billing has transitioned to a usage-based model, with per-model input and output token pricing for greater flexibility and cost efficiency.

• NVIDIA Build Partnership: Vultr has partnered with NVIDIA through the NVIDIA Build program. Vultr's serverless inference models are now accessible via the NVIDIA portal (build.nvidia.com), allowing customers to use a centralized NVIDIA Developer Program account linked to their Vultr account with a Serverless Inference subscription.

• Load Balancer Scaling Fix: We have resolved an issue where load balancers could scale down to zero nodes, improving reliability and ensuring consistent availability.

• UDP Support for Load Balancers: Load Balancers now support UDP traffic, enabling use cases such as real-time applications, gaming, streaming, and DNS services alongside existing TCP support.

February/March 2026

• OpenClaw One-Click App: Introducing the OpenClaw One-Click App, providing an easy way to consume our Serverless Inference offering through a popular agentic workflow. This enables faster setup and streamlined deployment for AI-driven applications. How to guide

• Public API for Support Tickets: Introduced a new public API for support tickets, enabling customers to create, view, and manage tickets programmatically. This update removes the dependency on the UI for ticket workflows and allows support operations to be fully integrated into automated systems and tooling.

• NAT Gateways Open-Source Tooling Support: NAT Gateways now include expanded open-source tooling support, adding key libraries such as Terraform. This enables customers to provision, manage, and automate NAT Gateway resources using infrastructure-as-code workflows and existing open-source ecosystems. Documentation

• Bootable Block Storage Updates: Expanded support for bootable block storage, enabling greater flexibility and automation across below workflows. Documentation

  • Take snapshots of bootable block volumes
  • Clone existing block volumes
  • Create new bootable volumes from snapshots

  These updates improve portability, disaster recovery options, and infrastructure-as-code support for block storage–backed deployments.

• Location-Specific Pricing in List Plans API: The List Plans API response now includes location-specific pricing, allowing customers to query and compare plan costs on a per-location basis. This enhancement provides greater pricing transparency and enables more precise deployment and cost-optimization decisions.

• VPS Plan Deprecation ("-sc1"): VPS plans ending in "-sc1" have been deprecated. No action is required for existing customers currently using these plans. New orders placed with "-sc1" plans will automatically be converted to the corresponding standard plan with location-specific pricing.

• cPanel on AlmaLinux Added to Marketplace: A new cPanel Marketplace application based on AlmaLinux is now available. This new offering provides a stable, RHEL-compatible OS option for cPanel deployments, giving customers more flexibility and long-term support for hosting and management workloads.

• Ubuntu 25.04 End of Life: Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) will reach End of Life on January 15, 2026. After this date, it will no longer receive security updates or maintenance. Customers are encouraged to plan upgrades to a supported Ubuntu LTS or interim release before the EOL date to maintain security and stability.

• Fedora 44 Beta Available: Fedora 44 Beta is now available, giving customers early access to the latest features and updates.

• FreeBSD 14.x Updated to 14.4 and Debian 13.x Updated to 13.4: These images have been updated to the latest point release with improvements and fixes.

• Ubuntu NVIDIA Driver Compatibility Update: Ubuntu GPU offerings have been updated to use NVIDIA driver pinning packages, ensuring compatibility with NVIDIA's reworked driver packaging. This change improves driver stability and prevents unintended upgrades or mismatches across CUDA and GPU-enabled workloads.

• NVIDIA GPU ECC Memory Enabled by Default: NVIDIA GPU ECC memory is now enabled by default across supported GPU offerings, following NVIDIA's recommended best practices. This change improves reliability and data integrity for compute-intensive and long-running GPU workloads without requiring manual configuration.

• AppRepo GPG Key Reissued (SHA-256): The AppRepo GPG key expired on February 1 and has been reissued using SHA-256. Customers running images that rely on the previous key will need to update to the new GPG key to continue receiving AppRepo updates without interruption.

• Maintenance Notifications Now Include Calendar Invites: Maintenance notification emails now include an .ics calendar attachment, allowing customers to easily add maintenance windows to their calendars. If the schedule changes, the event updates automatically without creating duplicates.

January 2026

• Increased Vultr File System (VFS) File Size Limit: The maximum supported file size for VFS has been increased from 1 TB to 16 TB, enabling support for significantly larger datasets and storage-intensive workloads.
• Floating/Reserved IP / BGP Announcement Improvements: Prefix list updates have been re-architected, resulting in faster IP announcements, reduced update latency, and more reliable, consistent BGP routing behavior for customers using BGP across all supported environments.
• NVIDIA DCGM Added to GPU Images: NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) is now included in our NVIDIA GPU Enabled Images. DCGM provides powerful monitoring and diagnostics for GPU health, performance, and telemetry, making it easier to operate, scale, and troubleshoot GPU workloads out of the box.
• GitLab Marketplace App OS Upgrade: The GitLab Marketplace application has been updated to run on Ubuntu 24.04, upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04. This update provides a newer LTS base with improved security, performance, and long-term support for new GitLab deployments.
• VKE Cluster Autoscaler Fix: Applied a patch to the Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) Cluster Autoscaler that resolves a permissions issue preventing worker nodes from scaling when autoscaling was enabled. The Cluster Autoscaler can now reliably add and remove nodes as expected.
• VKE OIDC Deployment Fix: Fixed an issue where OIDC deployments were not properly supported on VKE v1.34. Support has been updated so that all VKE versions 1.34 and later are now automatically compatible with OIDC, ensuring consistent authentication behavior across supported cluster versions.
• RIR IRR Routing Update: Updated RIR IRR route objects for Vultr IP prefixes to ensure accurate routing information is kept up-to-date to prevent suboptimal routing and improve overall network reachability and performance.
• Ubuntu 24.04 Added to Plesk Marketplace Apps: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS versions are now available for all Plesk Marketplace App tiers. This update provides a newer long-term support base with improved security, stability, and performance for new Plesk deployments.

December 2025

• Improved Invoice Credit & Prepayment Visibility: Invoices now provide a clearer and more consistent view of your billing details. Credits display your total positive balance regardless of source—including account credits, overpayments, and reversals—and dedicated sections for prepayments and credits have been added. These improvements ensure a transparent, consistent presentation across all billing documents.

November 2025

• Introducing Preemptible Plans for AMD MI355X and MI325X: Preemptible instances are now available for both AMD MI355X and AMD MI325X GPUs, offering high-performance accelerated computing at significantly reduced cost. Ideal for interruptible workloads such as large-scale training, batch inference, CI/CD pipelines, and experimentation.
• AMD AINIC Network Plugin (ANP) for MI355X Deployments: Introduced a new plugin that enables images to boot with all required libraries and dependencies preconfigured to maximize performance on RoCE fabric. This ensures seamless scalability and optimal throughput for MI355X-based deployments.
• VKE Upgrades Improvements: Vultr Kubernetes Engine now supports in-place upgrades for bare metal and imageless nodes, enabling seamless cluster updates without reprovisioning. This release also includes stability fixes to the upgrade process, ensuring multiple nodes are brought online before draining and removing others—minimizing disruption to running workloads.
• Monthly OS & App Updates: All major operating system distributions on Vultr have been refreshed with the latest monthly updates, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Rocky Linux, CentOS, Arch Linux, and openSUSE. Popular applications such as cPanel, GitLab, and Plesk have also been updated to their latest supported versions, ensuring improved security, stability, and compatibility across new deployments
• New Operating Systems Available: You can now deploy instances using OpenBSD 7.8 and Fedora 43 across all Vultr compute plans. These additions expand our OS catalog, giving you more flexibility for security-focused or cutting-edge Linux environments.
• Fix for Restoring Marketplace Snapshots: Resolved an issue where restoring snapshots of Marketplace applications was sometimes ignored and resulted in a fresh installation. Snapshots now restore correctly with all Marketplace app configurations preserved.

October 2025

• Increased Performance for Vultr NVMe Block Storage: Performance limits for Vultr NVMe Block Storage have been increased to 10,000 IOPS and 400 MB/s sustained, with a new burst capability to 15,000 IOPS and 600 MB/s. The burst capability allows for additional performance for up to 60 seconds before falling back to the sustained rate limits.
• Block Storage Volumes Now Support Live Resize: This enhancement eliminates downtime during storage upgrades, making it easier to scale applications dynamically and maintain continuous availability for production workloads. Instead of needing to reboot your instance, you can simply resize your partition or filesystem using growpart and/or extend2fs.
• OS Catalog Expansion - Ubuntu 25.10, openSUSE Leap 16, and Alpine 3.22.2 These additions ensure customers can deploy with the latest Linux distributions, benefiting from enhanced security, performance, and compatibility across a broader range of applications and environments.
• Inference API Now Supports Tool Calls: The Inference API now supports Tool Call execution, enabling models to dynamically invoke external tools or functions during inference. Tool Call support allows developers to build richer, more interactive applications — such as function-enabled chatbots, retrieval-augmented systems, and agent-style workflows — directly through the Inference API. This capability is available with our latest model, kimi-k2-instruct.
• VCR Artifact List API Pagination Support: This update makes it easier to work with extensive artifact collections, improving performance, usability, and consistency across the Vultr API ecosystem.
• Partnership with EdgeUno As a Local Transit Provider Across Latin America (LATAM): This is part of our ongoing commitment to bring your applications closer to your customers, wherever they are. Customers in LATAM will experience faster connectivity, more reliable performance and benefit from localized traffic delivery that improves the overall end-user experience.
• Marketplace Update: Refreshed GitLab and cPanel apps: New deployments now ship with the latest builds, delivering improved features, security, and performance.
• Fix for Marketplace Images on Small VMs: Some Marketplace images deployed to VMs with less than 1 GB of memory could previously experience crashes or kernel panics during startup. We’ve updated the deployment logic to detect and prevent incompatible image configurations on small VM plans, ensuring stable and reliable deployments. All new Marketplace deployments now safely handle small-memory VM instances without risk of boot failure.
• Prepayments Now Displayed on Invoices: You can now see any prepayment amounts directly on your invoices. Both the standard invoice PDF and the summary view PDF clearly display prepayment details applied to your account. This update provides greater transparency by showing how your prepayments are applied toward invoice totals, making it easier to reconcile billing and track credit usage.

September 2025

• PostgreSQL 13 EOL: PostgreSQL 13 has reached End of Life (EOL) and is no longer receiving security patches or community support. Customers should begin planning to upgrade their PostgreSQL 13 databases to a supported release. Use the Vultr control panel or API to deploy a new managed database on PostgreSQL 14+ and migrate your data. For upgrade guidance, click here.

• Support for Additional API Keys: You can now generate additional API keys for your Vultr user. All API keys also now support an optional expiration date and name for convenient identification after they are generated. As always, API keys are displayed only once immediately after generation. Learn More.

• DBaaS CA Certificate API Customers can now retrieve their account’s CA certificate for Managed Databases directly through the Vultr API. This CA certificate enables applications and services to establish secure, trusted TLS connections to Vultr’s Managed Databases.

• Snapshot ID Display for VPS & Bare Metal Deploy: The Vultr API now retains and displays the snapshot ID used when deploying Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Bare Metal (BM) instances. This allows customers to confirm which snapshot was used to create an instance. In addition, snapshot IDs can be retrieved programmatically for auditing, monitoring, or orchestration workflows.

• Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ Now Available: The latest version of Debian has been added to the Vultr OS offering. Highlights include Linux 6.12 LTS with expanded hardware support,updated desktops (GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6, Xfce 4.20), new “Ceratopsian” theme, improved installer with HTTP Boot, tmpfs default for /tmp, and APT 3.0 with modernized dependency resolution. Wayland is now default for GNOME, offering better multimedia and NVIDIA support.

• We’re excited to announce that Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Organizations support is on the way! What to Expect:

  • Organizations: Structure your account to support teams, departments, or entire businesses under one umbrella.
  • Granular IAM Controls: Assign roles, manage permissions, and control access to resources with precision.
  • Stronger Security: Centralized identity management reduces risks and simplifies compliance.
  • Collaboration-Ready: Easily invite and manage team members for seamless project collaboration.

  These updates bring enterprise-grade controls to Vultr, making it easier for both individuals and businesses to securely scale their operations. Stay tuned — more details coming soon!

August 2025

• VKE Node Pools Now Support User Data: Vultr's Terraform provider now supports user_data on the vultr_kubernetes_node_pools resource. You can now specify user data per node pool, giving users more control and customization at launch. Learn More.

• Account Logs are Now Available: Logs provide detailed records of user actions across your account, capturing events such as logins, Vultr Console interactions, and API requests. Learn more.

• Ubuntu 25.04 BM Bug Fixes: Improved support for Ubuntu 25.04 across Bare Metal hardware, ensuring smoother deployment and stability.

• Global Load Balancer Experience Improvements: A redesigned, modernized interface for automatically routing traffic to the nearest server worldwide, making global traffic management easier and more intuitive. Check it Out.

• High Performance Block, Object, and Filesystem Storage in Seattle and Atlanta: Seattle and Atlanta are key hubs for current and future GPU deployments. High-performance storage located near customer GPU workloads ensures optimal performance for compute-intensive applications.

• NVIDIA HGX B200 or H100 GPU Plans Available: Deploy Cloud GPU plans featuring 8x NVIDIA HGX B200 or H100 GPUs. These full-system virtual machines combine bare-metal performance with cloud agility, featuring: 8x GPUs in passthrough mode for maximum performance and full GPU fabric networking for inference and training workloads. Deploy Now.

• Rapid AI deployment with Vultr Open Cluster Manager: Vultr Open Cluster Manager is now available as a one-click-deploy app on the Vultr Marketplace. Powered by open-source technologies, Vultr Open Cluster Manager simplifies the process for getting AI workloads running on Vultr Cloud GPU clusters. Learn more.

July 2025

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End-of-Life: We have removed Ubuntu 20.04 from the platform, as it reached the end of its support period and no longer receives security or software updates. We recommend upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 24.04 which are actively supported LTS releases.
• AlmaLinux Networking Fixes for Bare Metal: We have fixed bugs for greater compatibility between AlmaLinux and Vultr Bare Metal.
• Serverless Inference Auto-Chunking Fix: We have resolved an issue with the Vultr Serverless Inference Vector Store file and collection item processing.
• Added CLI and API Documentation for Vultr Managed Apache® Kafka: All new features implemented in the Vultr Console and API are now supported by our open source libraries.Learn more.
• VPC2 Is No Longer Available for Vultr Managed Databases: Users can no longer choose a VPC2 network for DBaaS deployments due to the upcoming VPC2 deprecation. You can learn more and view our VPC2 migration guide here.
• Vultr Service Account Users: Can Now Be Added
Service users on Vultr are dedicated, API-only users intended for secure, automated access to cloud resources.Learn more.

June 2025

• Vultr Managed Apache Kafka® Improvements: New Schema Registry features and configurable settings allow users to fine-tune their Kafka environments for improved consistency and performance. Learn more about Schema Registry.
• Vultr Block Storage Improvements: Attach multiple devices more reliably. Learn more about attaching devices to Block Storage.
• New OS releases:
  • Alpine Linux 3.22
  • Rocky Linux 10
  • AlmaLinux 10
• Other Updates:
  • GPU Price-to-Performance Calculator: Compare benchmarked inference performance across GPUs for popular open-source LLMs. Try it out
  • Canada Tax Info on Invoices: Invoices now reflect accurate regional tax calculations for Canadian customers.
  • API Performance Upgrades: List and get operations for Reserved IPs and VPS instances are now faster and more efficient.