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Sep 10, 17:30 UTC
Completed - Our Engineering team has run into some operations taking longer than expected within this maintenance. No user impact has occurred as a result of those operations.
We will be extending this maintenance window to 22:00 UTC via a new maintenance post.
Sep 9, 13:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 7, 13:50 UTC
Scheduled - The Infrastructure Maintenance in NYC2 which was previously scheduled to start on 2024-09-03 at 13:30 UTC has been rescheduled to the following window:
Start: 2024-09-09 13:30 UTC
End: 2024-09-09 17:30 UTC
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Start: 2024-09-10 13:30 UTC
End: 2024-09-10 17:30 UTC
During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing maintenance on principal infrastructure in the NYC2 region in order to improve the reliability of the services. The maintenance is divided into two phases and will be performed on consecutive days during the same time as mentioned above.
Expected Impact:
During the maintenance window users may experience issues interacting with their services including Droplets, Managed Kubernetes, Load Balancers, Container Registry, and App Platform. Users may also experience delays or failures with event processing on Droplets and Droplet-based services. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
If you have any questions related to this issue please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket
Thank you,
Team DigitalOcean
Sep 9, 16:05 UTC
Completed - Hello,
The NYC2 Network Maintenance which was previously scheduled to start today (2024-09-09) at 21:00 UTC has been rescheduled to the following window:
Start: 2024-09-18 21:00 UTC
End: 2024-09-18 23:00 UTC
We apologize for any inconvenience this short notice may have caused and thank you for your understanding.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account.
Thank you,
DigitalOcean Networking Team
Sep 7, 11:42 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-09-09 21:00 UTC
End: 2024-09-09 23:00 UTC
Hello,
During the above window, our Networking team will be performing maintenance on the management network firewalls in the NYC2 region.
Expected Impact:
During the maintenance period, users may experience delays of up to 10 minutes with Event Processing on Droplets and Droplet-based services in NYC2. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account via https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket/.
Thank you,
DigitalOcean Networking Team


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This is a quality-focussed release for the 1.24.x series meant to provide a good product to people blocked on PHP 7.4, while we will increase the requirements to PHP 8.1+ from the next release.
A few highlights ✨:
This release has been made by @Alkarex, @math-GH and newcomer @pando85
Full changelog:

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Sep 3, 18:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 3, 14:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 31, 14:21 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-09-03 14:00 UTC
End: 2024-09-03 18:00 UTC
During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing additional maintenance on core infrastructure in our production environment. This is the second part of the maintenance completed on 29th August (posted here https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/wb3g6x6q55ct) to resolve the root cause of an issue discovered in a previous incident, details of which can be found here:
https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jmj2wx0y78q3.
Expected Impact:
During the maintenance window, users may experience issues with management operations for services including but not limited to, Droplets, Managed Kubernetes, Load Balancers and Managed Databases. Connectivity to existing services should not be impacted. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the maintenance.
If you have any questions related to this issue, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket
Thank you,
Team DigitalOcean
Aug 30, 14:10 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has resolved the issue with Managed Kubernetes clusters in the SFO3 region. All services should now be operating normally. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Aug 30, 13:45 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix to resolve the issue affecting Managed Kubernetes clusters in the SFO3 region and is closely monitoring the situation. We will provide an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.
Aug 30, 13:37 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating issues with the accessibility of Managed Kubernetes clusters in the SFO3 region. During this time, some users may experience difficulties connecting to their Managed Kubernetes clusters. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide an update as soon as we have more information.
Aug 30, 12:19 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team identified and resolved an issue affecting the networking in our SFO3 region. There were multiple impacts between 08:48 and 08:52 UTC, 09:08 and 09:12 UTC, and 10:51 and 10:55 UTC. During these periods, users may have experienced timeouts with network connections to and from the SFO3 region.
Our Engineering team was able to take quick action to mitigate the impact and resolve the issue. All services are now functioning as expected. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a Support ticket for further analysis.

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Aug 29, 21:35 UTC
Completed - This maintenance window is now over and users should not experience any further interruptions with management operations.
An additional maintenance window will be scheduled for Tuesday, September 3, to fully complete this maintenance work. Further details will be available on our status page soon.
Thank you for your patience. If you have any questions or concerns about this or the upcoming maintenance, please reach out to Support from within your account.
Aug 29, 14:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 29, 04:34 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2024-08-29 14:00 UTC
End: 2024-08-29 22:00 UTC
During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing an emergency maintenance activity on core infrastructure in our production environment. This maintenance is essential to resolve the root cause of an issue discovered in a previous incident, details of which can be found here: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jmj2wx0y78q3.
Expected Impact:
During the maintenance window, users may experience issues with management operations for services including but not limited to, Droplets, Managed Kubernetes, Load Balancers and Managed Databases. Connectivity to existing services should not be impacted. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
If you have any questions related to this issue please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket
Thank you,
Team DigitalOcean

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Aug 28, 23:45 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has identified the root cause of the issue with creating and resizing Droplets and Droplet-based resources in our SGP1 and SYD1 regions.
No further user impact has occurred since our last update.
In order to fully remediate this issue, our Engineering team has scheduled emergency maintenance, which will take place from 14:00 - 22:00 UTC on August 29th.
Please visit the below maintenance link to know more :
link:https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/np0zw6m04jm1
If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Aug 28, 16:05 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team has now put mitigations in place for failing create and resize operations in SYD1 and SGP1 and we are seeing creates and resizes of Droplets and Droplet-based products succeeding.
Our Engineering team continues to investigate the root cause of the issue and work on a full fix, and users may still experience errors until a full fix is in place. We will post a further update when more information is available.
Aug 28, 15:21 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Aug 28, 15:17 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Aug 28, 15:06 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue impacting operations in our SGP1 and SYD1 regions.
During this time, users may experience errors when trying to create new Droplets and Droplet-based resources, or when resizing their existing resources via our Cloud Control Panel and API.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and we'll share more information as soon as it's available.