# What's new!

## Recent updates

### Q3 2025

1. **Bare metal**: web console access to the host for O/S and driver boot issues.
2. **Bare metal**: management UI and APIs to see reserved instances and perform power cycle and O/S redeploy actions.
3. **Account types:** ability to auto-reload balance using stored VISA payment method
4. **Dark mode**: enhancements for support of light and dark mode preferences.

### Q2 2025

1. **Applications:** support for custom apps which are docker workloads dynamically pulled from Dockerhub, github and private container registeries.
2. **API:** we've released v0.1.0 of our [Terraform API](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/denvrdata/denvr/latest). This release supports creating and managing virtual machines.
3. **Inference endpoints:** Beta program available for interested partners to test shared community models as well as dedicated endpoints. 

### Q1 2025

1. **Applications**: 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x H100 apps are now available as part of the beta applications service.
2. **API**: we've released v0.1.0 of our Python SDK on [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/denvr/). Our goal is to keep the API minimal while providing a simple config and auth management. The code is available on [github](https://github.com/denvrdata/denvrpy) and feedback is welcome.

### Q4 2024 <a href="#release_notes_july_15_2023" id="release_notes_july_15_2023"></a>

1. **Account types:** we now support pre-paid accounts with VISA payments via Stripe.  Tenant resources will auto-stop at $0 balances along with notification alerts.
2. **Test drives:** new test drives can use either Test credits, or dedicated machines based on customer requirements.
3. **Applications**: early-access release for [Application Catalog](https://docs.denvrdata.com/docs/platform/applications).  These are focused on data scientists who prefer a fast-start environment like PyTorch, RAPIDS and JAX along with a JupyterLab interface.
4. **Support tickets**: we have integrated [web support tickets](https://docs.denvrdata.com/docs/overview/technical-support#contact-us-via-the-web) into the console.  This new system is easier to use than our previous ticketing platform. &#x20;
5. **Support Slack**: Denvr Support is available on Slack for tenants with reserved clusters.  We also support Teams and Discord if required.

## Past updates <a href="#release_notes_july_15_2023" id="release_notes_july_15_2023"></a>

### Q3 2024 <a href="#release_notes_july_15_2023" id="release_notes_july_15_2023"></a>

1. **Intel Gaudi 2**: general availability of [Intel Gaudi 2](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/ai-accelerators/gaudi2.html) accelerators in bare metal or VM configurations.  Gaudi2 provides superior TCO for both training and inferencing workloads.
2. **NVIDIA H100**: new availability of H100 nodes for on-demand and reserved use including 3,200G InfiniBand

### Q2 2024 <a href="#release_notes_july_15_2023" id="release_notes_july_15_2023"></a>

1. **Virtual machines:** simplified provisioning to optionally install GPU drivers, mount network-attached storage, and specify root disk size
2. **Bare metal:** test nodes available with [NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-hopper-superchip/)!
3. **Docs:** launched new documentation portal [Denvr Docs](https://docs.denvrdata.com/docs) including updated Quick Start guides, feature overviews, API Reference, and FAQs.

### Q1 2024 <a href="#release_notes_july_15_2023" id="release_notes_july_15_2023"></a>

1. **Virtual machines**: new configurations available including NVIDIA A40, AMD Mi250, AMD cpu-only as well as Windows operating system images.
2. **Slack**: launch of Slack Connect for direct access to Denvr ML support analysts for Bare Metal clusters.