September 2025 | Product releases

September brings platform improvements across infrastructure, templates, and developer experience. Faster workloads, more templates, and cleaner UI across the board.

Northflank now runs Kubernetes v1.33 on all major clouds, ships new AI model templates (DeepSeek, GPT OSS, Llama 4, Qwen 3, and more), and adds SolarWinds integration for better log management.

🏗 Infrastructure

Enhancements

• Kubernetes Version Updates: Bumped to v1.33 across all major cloud providers (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, Oracle OKE).
• AWS Infrastructure: Updated default AMI for AWS node pools for improved security and performance.
• Signal Handling: Improved signal forwarding to child processes, honoring Dockerfile STOPSIGNAL definitions for better container lifecycle management.
• PostgreSQL Improvements: Enhanced addon forking capabilities for better database management and backup workflows.
• Addon Restart Behavior: Improved predictability of addon restarts for better reliability.
• Startup speed: Reduced startup speed by 2 seconds for workload containers. 3-4 seconds without the sidecar service mesh. More next month!
• Enhanced Database Support: New Northflank-built MySQL versions with improved performance and compatibility.
• MinIO Updates: Added version 2025.9.7 for MinIO object storage addon.
• Docker Registry Migration: Moved all current deployments dependent on Bitnami Docker images to Northflank's platform registry.

Fixed

• Addon Management: Fixed addon stuck deletion issues in certain situations, particularly for addons with TLS & external access disabled.
• OCI Integration: Resolved UI issues with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) BYOC
• Performance Optimization: Northflank resources are applied to worker clusters at least a second faster than before
• Database Lifecycle: Deprecated old MongoDB versions as part of ongoing security and maintenance improvements.

🧩 Templates

Added

• New AI/ML Stack Templates

  • GPT OSS models
  • DeepSeek (including v3.1)
  • Llama 4
  • Qwen 3 4B (thinking and instruct variants)
  • Kimi models

• New Guides

  • https://northflank.com/guides/deploy-langflow-with-northflank
  • https://northflank.com/guides/deploy-anythingllm-with-northflank
  • https://northflank.com/guides/deploy-flowiseai-with-northflank
  • https://northflank.com/guides/deploy-listmonk-with-northflank
  • https://northflank.com/guides/deploy-calcom-with-northflank

• OpenTofu Enhancements: Support for idempotent template runs with empty OpenTofu nodes and improved resource deletion workflows with better UX and error handling.

• Advanced Template Functions: Expanded template function capabilities for more flexible infrastructure-as-code workflows.

• Repository Integration: Added VCS link ID option for repository clone nodes enabling more flexible Git integration.

• Backup Scheduling: Added compose reference schema support for addon backup schedules.

Enhancements

• Visual Editor Improvements: Enhanced support for passing entire environment variable objects as arguments in visual editor, similar to other template UI components.
• Template Organization: Custom addon types now organized in separate collapsible sections, defaulting to expanded when there are 6 or fewer custom types or if the currently selected type is within the section.

Fixed

• Template Management: Fixed Organization API templates not saving directory groups on creation and resolved intermittent template decryption issues.

👩‍💻 Developer experience

Added

• SolarWinds Integration: Added SolarWinds as a new log sink destination for improved log management.
• Deploy Safety: Added confirmation step when clicking "Deploy" button in Build/Commit lists to prevent accidental deployments.
• BYOC Docker Registries: Replaced BYOC docker registries with custom docker credentials for improved flexibility.

Enhancements

• Build Experience: Updated rebuild button text to say "Build" instead of "Rebuild" when there are no previous builds, and resolved branch names vanishing in branch selector.
• User Interface Polish: Updated permission toggle styling to make active/inactive states more obvious at a glance, improved service dashboard spacing with proper gaps between buttons and timestamps, and enhanced action button layouts with better column widths to avoid clipping.
• Log Management: Enhanced log sink handling with better multiple URL support (fixed mis-rendering of log lines with multiple http(s):// URLs), improved type filter labels with custom label support, and added pause failure messages to log-sink schema.
• Template UI: Hidden progress/errors and unsaved changes when template setup modal is visible for less distractions, and restored editable description fields in page headers.
• Domain Management: Improved wildcard subdomain support for top-level domains and enhanced domain search to include domains with no subdomains in search results.

See you next month!