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11 September 2024 at 05:00
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President of Alibaba Kuo Zhang in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday September 5th 2024.

New Customer Sign Ups

10 September 2024 at 16:06

Sep 10, 21:06 UTC
Resolved - From 18:23 to 19:21 UTC, users were unable to complete registration of new cloud.digitalocean.com accounts, due to an upstream outage.

This issue is now fully resolved and users should be able to sign up normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and invite users to retry any failed attempts. If you continue to experience issues or have any questions, please reach out to Support from within your account.

Sep 10, 20:48 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has confirmed there was an upstream outage that affected a component of the sign up flow for cloud.digitalocean.com accounts. The outage has been resolved by the provider.

We are monitoring the situation and will post an update shortly.

Sep 10, 19:50 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the issue impacting new account sign-ups. Users should no longer encounter errors and should be able to sign up again.

Our Engineering team continues to monitor the situation and we will post an update as soon as additional information is available.

Sep 10, 19:18 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with users attempting to sign up for new cloud.digitalocean.com accounts. At this time, users attempting to sign up are unable to complete registration.

Existing users are unaffected and should be able to sign in normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Extension of Core Infrastructure Maintenance in NYC2

10 September 2024 at 16:04

Sep 10, 21:04 UTC
Completed - Our Engineering team has successfully completed this maintenance.

Thank you for your patience throughout the extended window. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to Support from within your account.

Sep 10, 17:55 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 10, 17:54 UTC
Scheduled - Our Engineering team has run into some operations taking longer than expected for the previous maintenance window here: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/vmtp7c19bq2l.

No user impact has occurred as a result of those operations and we do not expect any customer impact, but there is a possibility impact could occur.

Users could experience issues interacting with the control plane for services, via both the Cloud Control Panel and API. This would include operations such as creates, deletes, updates, Snapshots, etc.

Existing services will continue to run normally.

We will update this page if impact occurs.

DockerHub Reachability in SGP1

10 September 2024 at 00:11

Sep 10, 05:11 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team identified a networking issue with our upstream provider in the SGP1 region. From 00:25 to 04:00 UTC, users may have experienced connectivity issues to DockerHub from Droplets, App Platform and Managed Kubernetes in the SGP1 region.

Our Engineering team has confirmed there is no longer any impact and connectivity should be restored for all customers.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Resizing Droplet Attached Block Storage Volumes

9 September 2024 at 17:59

Sep 9, 22:59 UTC
Resolved - From 17:04 UTC to 21:43 UTC, users may not have seen the option to resize an attached Block Storage Volume via the Cloud Control Panel, or may have encountered errors when attempting to resize attached Volumes via the API.

Our Engineering team has confirmed the resolution of the issue and Volume resizes should now be functioning normally in all regions.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sep 9, 21:58 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team have implemented a fix for the issue of resizing Droplet-attached Block Storage Volumes in all regions and are monitoring the situation closely. We will post another update once we're confident that the issue is fully resolved.

Sep 9, 21:15 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with resizing Droplet-attached Block Storage Volumes in all regions. Beginning at 17:04 UTC, users may not see the option to resize the Volume via the Cloud Control Panel, as well as see errors when attempting to resize attached Volumes via the API.

At this time, unattached Volumes are able to be resized correctly.

We will post an update once further information is available.

Rescheduled: Core Infrastructure Maintenance in NYC2

10 September 2024 at 12:30

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

And

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

NYC2 Network Maintenance

9 September 2024 at 11:05

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

FreshRSS 1.24.3

6 September 2024 at 12:23

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 ✨:

  • Last version supporting PHP 7.4 before requiring PHP 8.1+
  • Last version supporting PostgreSQL 9.5 before requiring PostgreSQL 10+
  • Last version supporting MariaDB 5.5 before requiring MariaDB 10.0.5+
  • Last version supporting MySQL 5.5.3 before requiring MySQL 8+
  • Many bug and regression fixes

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @math-GH and newcomer @pando85

Full changelog:

  • Bug fixing
    • Fix mark-as-read from user query #6738
    • Fix regression for shortcut to move between categories #6741
    • Fix feed title option #6771
    • Fix XPath for HTML documents with broken root (used by CSS selectors to fetch full content) #6774
    • Fix UI regression in Mapco/Ansum themes #6740
    • Fix minor style bug with some themes #6746
    • Fix export of OPML information for date format of JSON and HTML+XPath feeds #6779
  • Security
    • OpenID Connect better definition of session parameters #6730
  • Compatibility
    • Last version supporting PHP 7.4
  • Misc.
    • Use charset for JSON requests from the UI #6710
    • Use .html extension for the local cache of full content pages instead of .spc #6724
    • Update dev dependencies #6739, #6758,
      #6759, #6760

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5 September 2024 at 05:00
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Core Infrastructure Maintenance

3 September 2024 at 13:00

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

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