tag:status.w3.org,2005:/historyW3C Status - Incident History2024-03-29T00:06:54ZW3Ctag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/203680532024-03-27T08:15:03Z2024-03-27T08:21:03Zirc server minor maintenance at 08h00 UTC (09h00 CET)<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>27</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:15</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>27</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>27</var>, <var data-var='time'>00:25</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - We are going to do some finetuning to the irc service. The irc service will be available intermittently during <br />the maintenance.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/203550052024-03-27T02:30:02Z2024-03-27T02:30:02ZMailing list server maintenance<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>27</var>, <var data-var='time'>02:30</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>27</var>, <var data-var='time'>02:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>25</var>, <var data-var='time'>22:10</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - W3C's mailing list service will be unavailable for 30 minutes starting at 02:00 UTC March 27, while the system is moved to a new host. Any email sent to W3C lists will be queued and delivered once the maintenance has been completed. The online mailing list archives will remain available throughout.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/203532432024-03-26T08:38:36Z2024-03-26T08:38:36ZWeb IRC client service migration<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>26</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:38</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - This migration has been completed.<br /><br />The new Web interface is available at: https://webirc.w3.org/<br />Please note that the web IRC application was changed to The Lounge (https://thelounge.chat/) as the previous application qwebirc was not maintained anymore (no support for Python3).<br /><br />If you are facing accessibility issues with the Lounge we recommend that you use an IRC client directly from your computer. You can also report those on the project site - https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>26</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>25</var>, <var data-var='time'>18:24</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - The W3C Web IRC client service (https://irc.w3.org/), used to access our IRC network thru the web, will be migrated to a new app and host on Tuesday, 26 March, starting at 08:00 UTC and will be available back at some time later that day. <br /><br />Direct irc client access to our irc network wont be affected. Please keep in mind that our irc servers will also be migrated on 2024-03-26 and won't be available from 08h00-08h30 UTC.<br /><br />Please check this page for updates for the status on the W3C Web IRC Client service.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/203532042024-03-26T08:28:32Z2024-03-26T08:28:32Zirc server maintenance<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>26</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:28</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>26</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>26</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Update</strong> - The W3C IRC service (irc.w3.org) will be migrated to a new server on Tuesday, 26 March, starting at 08:00 UTC.<br /><br />This service will not be available during its migration which is scheduled to last approximately 30mins.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>25</var>, <var data-var='time'>18:16</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - The W3C IRC service (irc.w3.org) will be migrated to a new server on Tuesday, 26 March, starting at 08:00 UTC.<br /><br />This service will not be available during its migration which is scheduled to last approximately 30mins.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/203026642024-03-20T09:00:56Z2024-03-20T09:00:56Zpad.w3.org server maintenance<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>20</var>, <var data-var='time'>09:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>20</var>, <var data-var='time'>08:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>16:25</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - The pad.w3.org service will be migrated to a new server on Wednesday, 20 March, starting at 08:00 UTC.<br /><br />This service will not be available during its migration which is scheduled to last approximately one hour.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/201835412024-03-10T16:45:44Z2024-03-10T16:45:44Zwww.w3.org servers maintenance<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>10</var>, <var data-var='time'>16:45</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>10</var>, <var data-var='time'>16:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Verifying</strong> - Verification is currently underway for the maintenance items.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>10</var>, <var data-var='time'>13:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'> 7</var>, <var data-var='time'>09:58</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - We will be migrating the www.w3.org web site, database, CGI and CVS servers to a new hosting provider on Sunday 10 March 2024 starting at 13:00 UTC.<br /><br />During this maintenance most of our services will be read-only or in a degraded mode, including but not limited to:<br />- W3C User accounts creation and edition<br />- TR Publishing with Echidna<br />- WBS<br />- W3C Membership applications<br />- Publishing of minutes<br />- Changing access rights of content<br />- Deliveries to mailing lists<br /><br />We expect this maintenance to take between 2-4 hours.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/200870182024-02-29T05:20:10Z2024-02-29T05:20:10Zvalidator.w3.org servers maintenance<p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'>29</var>, <var data-var='time'>05:20</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'>29</var>, <var data-var='time'>05:15</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Verifying</strong> - Verification is currently underway for the maintenance items.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'>29</var>, <var data-var='time'>05:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'>27</var>, <var data-var='time'>11:23</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - The validator.w3.org servers will be migrated on Thursday, 29 February, starting at 05:00 UTC.<br /><br />We do not expect any downtime during this migration.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/198866552024-02-01T18:49:16Z2024-02-01T18:49:16ZPartial service outage during network maintenance<p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>18:49</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>18:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:46</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - Some W3C services will be unavailable due to scheduled network maintenance at our hosting provider. Most of the public W3C web site and email discussion lists are expected to remain available.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/198770672024-02-01T05:22:25Z2024-02-01T05:22:25Zlabs.w3.org server maintenance<p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>05:22</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>04:31</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'>31</var>, <var data-var='time'>16:17</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - The labs.w3.org servers will be migrated on Thursday, 01 February, starting at 04:30 UTC.<br /><br />No services should be affected by this migration.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/187555442023-10-12T14:41:18Z2023-10-12T14:41:18ZTimeouts for some resources on www.w3.org<p><small>Oct <var data-var='date'>12</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:41</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Oct <var data-var='date'>11</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:01</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Monitoring</strong> - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.</p><p><small>Oct <var data-var='date'>11</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:37</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Investigating</strong> - We are currently investigating this issue.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/187260652023-10-09T07:48:29Z2023-10-09T07:48:29ZSlowness of W3C website<p><small>Oct <var data-var='date'> 9</var>, <var data-var='time'>07:48</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved (and in the end was independent of our CDN provider)</p><p><small>Oct <var data-var='date'> 8</var>, <var data-var='time'>20:59</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Identified</strong> - We noticed degraded performance on the W3C website with regards to loading assets such as stylesheets and images. This might be related to an ongoing issue at our CDN provider.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/181731352023-08-17T14:38:25Z2023-08-17T14:38:25ZMailing list archives outage<p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>17</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:38</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>17</var>, <var data-var='time'>12:49</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Investigating</strong> - We are currently investigating this issue.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/179084412023-07-24T09:44:30Z2023-07-24T09:44:30ZAPI keys deprecation<p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>24</var>, <var data-var='time'>09:44</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The API servers have been upgraded.</p><p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>24</var>, <var data-var='time'>09:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>20</var>, <var data-var='time'>05:22</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - We'll be upgrading the API server to remove the need for API keys.<br />There should be no interruption of service so api.w3.org will still be reachable during the upgrade.<br /><br />If you have a tool that relies on the API, you should plan to remove the key you are using as they will no longer be required.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/178460362023-07-13T18:42:14Z2023-07-13T18:42:14ZW3C mailing list archive update<p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>13</var>, <var data-var='time'>18:42</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>13</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:01</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>13</var>, <var data-var='time'>16:56</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - Starting at 17:00 UTC today we will be regenerating the mailing list archives hosted on https://lists.w3.org/ to use a new version of hypermail. This update will provide many improvements to the markup, style, accessibility, performance and robustness of the archives.<br /><br />Mail to individual mailing lists will be paused while the archives are being regenerated, typically less than 1 minute for most lists but up to 10 minutes for lists with large archives. Any messages sent to a list will be queued and distributed once its archive has been rebuilt.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/176217292023-06-20T13:41:42Z2023-06-20T13:41:42ZRelease of new W3C website<p><small>Jun <var data-var='date'>20</var>, <var data-var='time'>13:41</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The release of the new site has been completed https://www.w3.org/.<br /><br />Please report any issue you find to https://github.com/w3c/w3c-website/</p><p><small>Jun <var data-var='date'>20</var>, <var data-var='time'>12:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jun <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:45</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - The new W3C website currently available at https://beta.w3.org/ will be deployed to production this Tuesday 20 June starting at 12:00 UTC.<br />We expect some interruption for the duration of the deployment which will be done in one go and may take an hour or more.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/165927692023-03-21T18:29:19Z2023-03-21T18:29:19ZNetwork issues impacting W3C website<p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>21</var>, <var data-var='time'>18:29</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>21</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:52</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Monitoring</strong> - This network outage appears to have ended. The various services are back.</p><p><small>Mar <var data-var='date'>21</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:12</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Investigating</strong> - W3C Website and most W3C services are currently unreachable. This issue seems network related at our hosting provider.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/160180272023-02-03T15:09:35Z2023-02-03T15:09:35ZIRC Server not reachable<p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 3</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:09</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 3</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:09</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Update</strong> - Fixed</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 3</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:51</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Update</strong> - We are continuing to investigate this issue.</p><p><small>Feb <var data-var='date'> 3</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:50</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Investigating</strong> - We are currently investigating this issue.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/158369992023-01-14T21:00:38Z2023-01-14T21:00:38ZSeveral services unavailable due to a planned power outage<p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'>14</var>, <var data-var='time'>21:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'>14</var>, <var data-var='time'>12:49</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'>13</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:38</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - Due to a power maintenance at our hosting provider several W3C services will be unavailable on Saturday 14 January 2023 from 13:00 to 21:00 UTC.<br /><br />This includes:<br /> - W3C blogs and News items<br /> - Validator services hosted on validator.w3.org and jigsaw.w3.org<br /> - The W3C Mailing lists search service<br /> - Automated publications and the pubrules checker<br /> - Services hosted on labs.w3.org<br /> - Services hosted and services.w3.org<br /> - Access to media files hosted media.w3.org<br /> - Archived sites (dvcs.org, idpf.org, www.multilingualweb.eu)<br /> - W3C China website chinaw3c.org<br /> - w3c-test.org</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/158264542023-01-12T09:58:36Z2023-01-12T09:58:36Zdb minor maintenance<p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'>12</var>, <var data-var='time'>09:58</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'>12</var>, <var data-var='time'>09:51</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Investigating</strong> - We are doing a minor intervention on the database server. You may experience a slight rupture of service when publishing documents or changing access control rights, and accessing w3c account profiles.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/157987272023-01-09T00:50:27Z2023-01-09T00:50:27ZIRC server maintenance<p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'> 9</var>, <var data-var='time'>00:50</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'> 9</var>, <var data-var='time'>00:45</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'> 9</var>, <var data-var='time'>00:40</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - W3C's IRC server will be unavailable for a few minutes, for a system software update.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/157769342023-01-05T14:36:41Z2023-01-05T14:36:41ZW3C Blogs outage<p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'> 5</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:36</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'> 5</var>, <var data-var='time'>10:57</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Monitoring</strong> - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.</p><p><small>Jan <var data-var='date'> 5</var>, <var data-var='time'>10:12</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Identified</strong> - Our blog platform is having issues and is currently unavailable. We are working on restoring the service.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/108622672022-09-15T17:00:26Z2022-09-15T17:00:26ZRedirecting to https on all of www.w3.org<p><small>Sep <var data-var='date'>15</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Sep <var data-var='date'> 7</var>, <var data-var='time'>02:23</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Update</strong> - We updated our server to omit redirections for *.dtd in addition to *.xsd for the remainder of this test, due to a few reports of issues with software that retrieves .dtd files from our site.</p><p><small>Sep <var data-var='date'> 3</var>, <var data-var='time'>16:24</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Update</strong> - Due to a lack of issues reported we will be continuing this test for another week or two.</p><p><small>Sep <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:53</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - We will be conducting a third test of redirecting all resources on www.w3.org from http to https, for 48 hours starting at 17:00 UTC on Thursday September 1. For this test, we will omit redirections for request URIs ending in *.xsd but redirect the rest of the site.<br /><br />The redirections for *.xsd will be omitted from this test in the interest of avoiding issues with legacy software that has not yet been updated to handle redirects and https. We plan to conduct further tests of redirecting the entire site including *.xsd, with the next such test likely scheduled for early October.<br /><br />The goal of these tests is to gather experience and feedback in anticipation of deploying this change to our site permanently within the next few months.<br /><br />For more information please see:<br />https://www.w3.org/blog/2022/07/redirecting-to-https-on-www-w3-org/<br />https://www.w3.org/blog/2022/08/https-redirection-observations/</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/108423772022-08-19T17:47:32Z2022-08-19T17:49:36ZRedirecting to https on all of www.w3.org<p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>17:47</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>18</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:01</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>17</var>, <var data-var='time'>03:57</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - We will be conducting a second test of redirecting all resources on www.w3.org from http to https, for 3 days starting at 14:00 UTC on Thursday August 18.<br /><br />This is a followup on our previous test, to gather more feedback in anticipation of deploying this change to our site permanently within the next few months.<br /><br />For more information please see https://www.w3.org/blog/2022/07/redirecting-to-https-on-www-w3-org/<br /><br />Update: We ended the second test early, at 17:30 UTC Aug 19 due to several complaints that this change was impacting production services. We plan to conduct another test in two weeks, for 48 hours starting at 17:00 UTC on Sep 1, ending at 17:00 UTC Sep 3. If you have dependencies on our web site in your production services please work to remove them, or update them to handle redirections and https.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/108613052022-08-19T15:41:23Z2022-08-19T15:41:23Zwww.w3.org experiencing issues<p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:41</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Resolved</strong> - This incident has been resolved.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:34</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Monitoring</strong> - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'>19</var>, <var data-var='time'>15:15</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Investigating</strong> - We are currently investigating this issue.</p>tag:status.w3.org,2005:Incident/106887702022-08-01T22:00:37Z2022-08-01T22:00:37ZRedirecting to https on all of www.w3.org<p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>22:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Completed</strong> - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.</p><p><small>Aug <var data-var='date'> 1</var>, <var data-var='time'>14:00</var> UTC</small><br><strong>In progress</strong> - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.</p><p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>25</var>, <var data-var='time'>20:37</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Update</strong> - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.</p><p><small>Jul <var data-var='date'>25</var>, <var data-var='time'>20:34</var> UTC</small><br><strong>Scheduled</strong> - We will be conducting a test of redirecting all resources on www.w3.org from http to https, for 8 hours starting at 14:00 UTC on Monday August 1.<br /><br />This is a preliminary test in anticipation of deploying this change to our site permanently within the next few months.<br /><br />For more information please see https://www.w3.org/blog/2022/07/redirecting-to-https-on-www-w3-org/</p>