Release Notes: 2025.11.4

This update includes significant Spark server provisioning enhancements, general security updates, and a redesigned UI for better navigation and usability. We've brought provisioning times down from 3-5 minutes to about 30 seconds, launched our USC2 data center with GPU infrastructure, and added granular permission controls. We also cover the Nov 25 outage and how we've improved failover to minimize downtime. Plus, get a preview of upcoming features like team management, WordPress hosting, object storage, and managed databases.

User Interface

Web Servers

We renamed the "Web Servers" page to "Networking" and improved the copy. This page is the primary area to configure web traffic and internet routing to make your VMs accessible from the internet.

Publications

Authors have been added to the publications page. This is in preparation for guest posting articles and forum creation (though users can still post and discuss the platform on our General Subreddit and Carpathian Cloud Subreddit).

Footer Links

We updated the layout and added more helpful links so users can more easily access resources.

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Infrastructure Improvements

Spark Servers

Testers told us provisioning was taking too long, so we completely overhauled the flow and brought the time down to about 30 seconds. Based on a user's Spark allocations, CynosEngine will pre-provision an instance so it's ready to go as soon as you provision. There are still a few pre-flight checks it needs to do, but overall, there's a significant improvement.

If a standby instance still isn't available, it will fall back to the normal provision flow and take 3-5 minutes. Upgrades may also increase the time even if a standby unit is available. We'll continue testing and looking for ways to speed up the provisioning flow.

USC2 Data Center

USC2 is now online! We're still working on getting the final integrations set up, but this will soon allow users to access our GPU infrastructure as well as more options for CPU types and larger core count upgrades.

Load Balancing

With USC2 coming online, we'll be working to implement load balancing on the backend and automatic traffic handoff.

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General Security

This update contains general security fixes across the backend. We added additional permissions for more granular control over what members are and aren't allowed to do.