# December 29, 2025

## Deepgram Self-Hosted December 2025 Release (251229)

### Container Images (release 251229)

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:release-251229`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:1.173.4`

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:release-251229`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:3.107.0`

  - Minimum required NVIDIA driver version: `>=570.172.08`

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-license-proxy:release-251229`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-license-proxy:1.9.2`

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-billing:release-251229`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-billing:1.12.1`

### This Release Contains The Following Changes

- **Expands Aura-2 TTS language support** - Adds TTS support for Dutch, German, French, Italian, and Japanese. See the [relevant changelog entry](/guides/self-hosted-deployments-changelog#aura-2-tts-language-expansion). Reach out to your Deepgram representative to obtain the new Aura-2 models.

- **Adds Engine metrics for Flux** - Adds `flux_max_streams`, `flux_used_streams`, `flux_fraction_streams`, and `flux_cursor_latency` metrics to the Engine container for Flux monitoring and auto-scaling.

- **Adds PHI redaction category** - Enables the use of `redact=phi` to redact six applicable sub-categories of PHI entities. See the [related changelog entry](/guides/self-hosted-deployments-changelog#phi-redaction-now-available-for-batch-and-streaming-speech-to-text) for details.

- **Allows optional blocking on model pre-loading before Engine becomes ready** - By default, [models pre-load](https://support.deepgram.com/en-US/deepgram/article/ART-528-how-can-i-preload-models-to-reduce-cold-start-latency) in the background, which can cause a delay on the first request. Setting `blocking = true` under `[preload_models]` in engine.toml makes the Engine wait until model pre-loading completes before accepting traffic. The tradeoff is longer startup time (potentially minutes), so orchestration and health checks should allow for a delayed readiness signal.

- **Includes General Improvements** — Keeps our software up-to-date.

## Related pages

- [Amazon SageMaker](./amazon-sagemaker-index.md)
- [Aura](./aura-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Custom Vocabulary](./custom-vocabulary-index.md)
- [Deepgram's Docs](../index.md)
- [Deployment](./deployment-index.md)
- [Docker/Podman](./docker-podman-index.md)
- [Features](./features-index.md)
- [Flux TTS](./flux-tts-index.md)
- [Formatting](./formatting-index.md)

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