# Release 2024.09.01

Saturn Cloud release notes for 2024.09.01

## Authentication

- Security improvements for backend infrastructure for authentication, tokens, and token refreshing
- Converted authentication tokens to JWTs
- Implemented explicit scopes for API tokens
- Implemented expirations for API tokens
- Switched from per-resource kubernetes service accounts to explicit service accounts defined in the UI

## Images

- Added NGC images to Saturn Cloud deployments
- Added capability of importing arbitrary external images into Saturn Cloud

## Notifications

- Added email notifications for resource status

## Clouds

- Added support for GCP, Azure, OCI and Nebius clouds

## Hardware Metrics

- Added support for multiple time frames in hardware metrics UI

## Tagging

- Added support for tagging of AWS resources with information about users/groups utilizing the resource