Forum Maintenance Announcements

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Tonight maintenance should be complete. Please let us know if you see any problems.
Thanks!

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Maintenance to software the forums depends upon. This is not a code change to the forum software.
Planning service interruption Saturday, December 30 2023 starting at around 6:00pm PST. Hopefully, this will last around 1-2 hours.

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No maintenance on the forums, but other work will mean a temporary loss of access to the forums some time between 8pm-9pm PST on Wed. November 29, 2023.
If everything goes well, the total down-time will be 5-10 minutes at some point in that 1 hour window.
Thanks!

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We have planned maintenance starting Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 8 PM PST.
This will probably last around 6 hours.
We have no expectation for an upgrade to the forums software in this planned upgrades.

The major upgrades have taken place. This is the first step of several, which may take place over the next few weeks.

Hopefully, this will be the last long (6 hour) period of down-time for a long while.

I'll be testing things.

Please let us know if you notice any new problems.

Thanks!

[number6]

We have planned maintenance starting Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 8 PM PST.
This will probably last around 6 hours.
We have no expectation for an upgrade to the forums software in this planned upgrades.

[number6]

One more round of maintenance for forums, some time after midnight PDT (start of new day) October 28, 2023.
Expected down-time 1-2 hours.

Update: Work on forum with round 2 to start at midnight.

Work on forums should be complete. I'm now running through check to see of things are working.

These were only bug fixes. Please let us know if you see new issues with the forums.

Thanks!

[number6]

One more round of maintenance for forums, some time after midnight PDT (start of new day) October 28, 2023.
Expected down-time 1-2 hours.

Update: Work on forum with round 2 to start at midnight.

[number6]

Maintenance completed. No change to forum software.

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Forum Maintenance planned 6pm PDT on Friday October 27, 2023, which will last 2-4 hours.

[number6]

We have upgraded the forum software. This was not a feature update, but to address some security issues. Please let us know if you see new issues.
Thanks!

[number6]

Maintenance to forums scheduled to start at 4:30am PDT on October 12, 2023, and may last up to 2 hours, but will probably end within 30 minutes.

Upgrade is complete. If you can read this, then maintenance is complete.

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Test in-line comment.

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Maintenance to forums scheduled to start at 4:30am PDT on October 12, 2023, and may last up to 2 hours, but will probably end within 30 minutes.

[number6]

Maintenance should now be complete. I am running through post-change checks.
Please let us know if you see any problems.
Thanks!

[number6]

Planned maintenance on the DEF CON Forums start 5pm PDT, Monday, October 2, 2023. Expected down-time to be around 1 hour or less.