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.

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Aug 26, 10:40 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue impacting our Droplet-based services in the NYC1 region has been completely mitigated. Users should no longer see issues with their Droplets and Droplet-related services.

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

Aug 26, 09:36 UTC
Monitoring - As of 09:30 UTC, our Engineering team has identified the cause of the issue impacting our Droplet-based services in the NYC1 region and applied a fix. The impact has started to mitigate and users should be able to connect to their Droplets and also start to see events getting processed successfully.

We're now monitoring the fix for stability and will post an update once we are confident it is successful.

Aug 26, 08:13 UTC
Investigating - As of 01:00 UTC, our Engineering team is currently investigating reports of an issue with our Droplet-based services in the NYC1 region.

At this time, users may experience issues reaching their Droplet via network requests and also see errors or stuck events when attempting Droplet actions such as power cycles, resizes, rebuilds, etc. Our team is working to mitigate the issue.

We realize how impacting this is and will provide an update as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.

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• Milestone

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 1.25.x series.

A few highlights ✨:

• New global option to automatically add articles to favourites
• New option to share articles from the article title line
• Add core extensions, shipped by default: UserCSS and UserJS
• Security: Force log out of users when they are disabled
• Many bug and regression fixes

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @ColonelMoutarde, @den13501, @hkcomori, @math-GH
and newcomers @dservian, @crisukbot, @TomW1605

Full changelog:

• Features
  • New global option to automatically add articles to favourites #6648
  • New possibility to share a user query in JSON GReader format #6655
  • New fields image and description for user query share #6541
  • Show article first words when an article title is empty #6240
  • New option to share articles from the article title line #6395
  • Improve JSON Dot Notation module to access more string-friendly types #6631
  • Improve detection of image types for enclosures not providing a type #6653
  • Add sharing to archive.is #6650
• Security
  • Force log out of users when they are disabled #6612
  • Increase default values for OpenID Connect OIDCSessionMaxDuration and OIDCSessionInactivityTimeout #6642
  • Add default API CORS HTTP headers to shareable user queries #6659
• Bug fixing
  • Fix parentheses for complex OR Boolean search expressions #6672
  • Fix keep max unread #6632
  • Fix regression in mark as read upon gone #6663
  • Fix regression on mark duplicate titles as read for modified articles #6664
  • Fix regression for Fever API, remove dependency to Exif extension #6624
  • Fix muted feeds for WebSub #6671
  • Fix performance / deadlock of PostgreSQL and MySQL / MariaDB during schema updates #6692
  • Fix HTTP cache of main page (regression since 1.18.0) #6719
  • Fix HTTP cache of shareable user queries #6718
  • Fix HTTP cache for feeds with modified Last-Modified when content is not modified #6723
• Extensions
  • Add core extensions, shipped by default: UserCSS and UserJS #6267
    • Replaces CustomCSS and CustomCS extensions
  • Strong type array parameter helper #6661
• CLI
  • Add quiet option to cli/db-backup.php #6593
• Compatibility
  • Initial support for PHP 8.4+ #6615
    • With upstream contributions php/php-src#14873, PhpGt/CssXPath#227
  • Fix SQLite on FreeBSD due to DQS #6701, #6702
• Deployment
  • Docker default image (Debian 12 Bookworm) updated to PHP 8.2.20 and Apache 2.4.61
  • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.20 with PHP 8.3.10 and Apache 2.4.62 #5383
  • Docker: Alpine dev image freshrss/freshrss:newest updated to PHP 8.4.0beta3 and Apache 2.4.62 #5764
• UI
  • Default dark mode to auto #5582
  • New option to control action icons position in reading view #6297
  • Sticky buttons at the bottom of settings #6304
  • Various UI and style improvements #6446, #6485,
    #6651
• I18n
  • Czech: use correct ISO 639-1 code cs (and not cz, which is the country) #6514
  • Improve Japanese #6564
  • Improve Spanish #6634
  • Improve Traditional Chinese #6691
• Misc.
  • Pass PHPStan Level 9 #6544
  • Migrate to ESLint 9 #6685
  • Minor update of PHPCS whitespace / formatting rules #6666
  • Markdownlint no-trailing-spaces #6668
  • Removed sharing with Blogotext #6225
  • Code improvements #6043
  • Update dev dependencies #6606, #6614,
    #6679, #6681, #6682,
    #6683, #6684

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Aug 22, 22:43 UTC
Resolved - From 17:18 UTC until 17:58 UTC, users may have experienced issues when attempting to access Spaces in the NYC3 region.

Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue, and users should now be able to access Spaces normally.

Thank you for your patience. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket with our support team for further review.

Aug 22, 22:11 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has confirmed the mitigations put in place have resolved the impact to Spaces availability in NYC3. We are currently monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Aug 22, 18:13 UTC
Update - Our Engineering team is continuing to investigate this issue, but has taken action to mitigate the impact. Spaces API availability has returned to pre-incident levels and users' requests should succeed at this time.

We will post an update once we have further information.

Aug 22, 17:55 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with Spaces availability in the NYC3 region. During this time users may encounter errors when accessing Spaces objects or managing existing buckets in the NYC3 region.

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

Aug 22, 15:04 UTC
Resolved - From 10:30 to 11:35 UTC, our Engineering team observed an issue with Container Registry and App Platform builds in the AMS3 and FRA1 regions.

During this time, users may have experienced delays while building their Apps and could have potentially experienced timeout errors in builds as a result. Additionally, a subset of customers may have experienced latency while interacting with the Container Registries.

Our Engineering team found that a backing component of the Container Registry was experiencing high memory usage. They were able to remediate that component at 11:35 UTC, which resolved the issue.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have any questions or continue to experience issues, please reach out via a Support ticket on your account.

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