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Feb 25, 18:28 UTC
Resolved - From 17:14 UTC to 17:34 UTC, users experienced issues accessing the Cloud Control Panel and API.

Our Engineering team has resolved the issue, and the Cloud Control Panel, API, and events should now be functioning normally.

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

Feb 25, 17:58 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix to resolve the issue impacting the Cloud Control Panel and API. Users should no longer experience issues with accessing the Cloud Control Panel and API.

We will continue to monitor the situation and post an update once this issue is fully resolved. Thank you for your patience.

Feb 25, 17:44 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the cause of the issue impacting our Cloud Control Panel and API and is actively working on implementing a fix. We are already seeing signs of recovery, and users should now have access to the Cloud Control Panel and API.

We will post an update as soon as additional information is available.

Feb 25, 17:32 UTC
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue.

Feb 25, 17:27 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting our Cloud Control Panel and API.

During this time, users will experience errors when trying to use the public API at api.digitalocean.com or while accessing our Cloud Control Panel at https://cloud.digitalocean.com. Users may also see issues with processing Droplet and Kubernetes cluster creations along with Droplet-based events.

We are now confirming the full impact. We regret any inconvenience and will let you know as soon as more information is available.

Feb 25, 20:16 UTC
Resolved - From 6:00 UTC to 17:45 UTC, users have experienced issues with Droplet creation and Droplet-based services in the NYC3 region.

Our Engineering team has fully resolved the issue impacting Droplet creation in the NYC3 region. Users can now create Droplets and Droplet-based services, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Load Balancers, and snapshots, without any issues.

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

Feb 25, 18:43 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix to resolve the issue impacting the creation of Droplets in the NYC3 region. Users should now be able to create Droplets and Droplet-based services including Managed Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Load Balancers, and snapshots without any issues.

We are actively monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Feb 25, 16:02 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the reason behind the failed and delayed Droplet creates in the NYC3 region and implemented a partial mitigation to address this issue. As of now, customers may be able to create Droplets and Droplet-based services including Managed Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Load Balancers, and snapshots, however, there might be still some delay in the creates.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue. Further updates will be shared as they become available.

Feb 25, 12:45 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with Droplet creation in the NYC3 region. During this time, users may see an elevated failure rate for the creation of Droplets and other Droplet-based products, such as Load Balancers, Managed Databases, or Kubernetes in the NYC3 region.

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

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• Milestone

In this release, we have restarted to focus on features. A long-awaited feature has been added, namely sorting articles by various criteria: received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random.

A few highlights ✨:

• Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random
• Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z
  • UI accessible from user-query view
• New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles
• Several improvements and bug fixes

This release has been made by @Alkarex, @b-reich, @hkcomori, @math-GH, @UserRoot-Luca
and newcomers @a6software, @aftix, @bl00dy1837, @brtmax, @Roan-V, @ShaddyDC, @UncleArya

Full changelog:

• Features
  • Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random #7149
  • Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z #7144
    • UI accessible from user-query view
  • Add search operator intext: #7228
  • New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles #7274
  • New About page with system information #7161
• Bug fixing
  • Fix regression denying access to app manifest #7158
  • Fix unwanted feed description updates #7269
  • Ensure no PHP buffer for SQLite download (some setups would first put the file in memory) #7230
  • Fix XML encoding regression in HTML+XPath mode #7345
  • Improve cURL proxy options and fix some constants #7231
  • Fix UI of global view unread articles counter #7247
  • Hide base theme in carrousel #7234
• Deployment
  • Reduce superfluous Docker builds #7137
  • Docker default image (Debian 12 Bookworm) updated to PHP 8.2.26 and Apache 2.4.62
  • Docker alternative image (Alpine 3.21) updated to PHP 8.3.16
• UI
  • Add footer icons to reader view #7133
  • Remove local reference to font Open Sans to avoid bugs with some local versions #7215
  • Improve stats page layout #7243
  • Smaller mark as read button in mobile view #5220
  • Add CSS class to various types of notifications to allow custom styling #7287
  • Various UI and style improvements: #7162, #7268
    Security
  • Better authorization label for OIDC in the UI #7264
  • Allow comments in force-https.txt #7259
• I18n:
  • Improve German #7177, #7275, #7278
  • Improve Japanese #7187, #7195, #7332
• Misc.
  • Improve PHP code #7191, #7204
    • Upgrade to PHPStan 2 #7131, #7164, #7224,
      #7270, #7281, #7282
  • Update to CssXPath 1.3.0 (no change) #7211
  • Update dev dependencies #7165, #7166, #7167,
    #7279, #7280, #7283,
    #7284, #7285, #7347
  • Update GitHub Actions to Ubuntu 24.04 #7207

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Feb 20, 00:20 UTC
Resolved - From February 6 21:28:35 UTC to February 19 23:14:00 UTC, users may have experienced issues receiving monitoring alerts for tagged resources.

Our Engineering team has resolved the issue, alerts for tagged resources are now working properly and users should now start receiving new alerts going forward.

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

Feb 19, 23:46 UTC
Monitoring - Our engineering team has implemented a fix for the issues that affect receiving monitoring alerts for tagged resources, and are currently monitoring the situation. Any alerts that should've been received beginning February 6th to today will not be received, but new alerts for tagged resources should work going forward.

We appreciate your patience, we will post an update once we've confirmed the issue is fully resolved.

Feb 19, 20:36 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating reports that alerts are not received when alerts are configured with tags. Users may not receive email notification of alerts when using tags, although resources specified by name are still monitored and receiving alerts properly.

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

El sector de la construcción sigue en vilo ante la incertidumbre por la indefinición de la reforma de la Ley de Intereses Preferenciales. Desde hace meses los créditos hipotecarios preferenciales no se están aprobando en la mayoría de los bancos y tampoco se están construyendo nuevos desarrollos inmobiliarios.

En una reunión en la Cámara Panameña de la Construcción, representantes de este sector, junto con desarrolladores de proyectos inmobiliarios residenciales y promotores, hicieron un llamado al Gobierno para que se acelere la aprobación de la reforma y se definan las reglas del juego para que se vuelvan a reactivar los préstamos subsidiados y la construcción.

El presidente de Capac, Alejandro Ferrer Solís, indicó que tanto la eliminación del Fondo Solidario de Vivienda que venció en junio de 2024, como la falta de pago del subsidio de las tasas de interés a los bancos, ha generado por una parte que se paralicen varias obras de construcción de viviendas de interés preferencial y que además, que la mayoría de los bancos no estén otorgando créditos subsidiados.

“Hay 75 proyectos retenidos que no van a arrancar hasta que no se apruebe esta ley de Intereses Preferenciales, entendemos que hay una situación fiscal y presupuestaria pero tenemos que tener esta ley con las reglas claras. Se calcula que el mercado inmobiliario en el último año pudo haber perdido 300 millones de dólares”, dijo Ferrer Solís al referirse al vencimiento del Fondo Solidario de Vivienda.

Señaló que la situación actual, derivada del próximo vencimiento de la Ley de Interés Preferencial, en los tramos 1 y 2 de vivienda, hasta 120 mil dólares ha impactado de manera inmediata en la pérdida de más de 12 mil plazas de empleo, una caída significativa en la recaudación de impuestos municipales y la incertidumbre de las familias cuyos créditos aprobados fueron descartados, afectando gravemente su posibilidad de acceder a una vivienda propia.

“La paralización de la construcción de viviendas de carácter social podría resultar en una drástica pérdida de empleos. El sector de la construcción representa el 7.8% del empleo nacional, según cifras oficiales del Inec a octubre 2024. Entre 2023 y 2024, se perdieron más de 12 mil empleos en el sector, lo que representa una disminución del 7.57%. Además, el empleo formal (pleno empleo) también disminuyó en un 6.92%, comparado con agosto de 2023″.

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