GovCMS: Content management and website hosting for the Australian government. Managed by the Department of Finance with service delivery partners Salsa Digital and amazee.io
Advice We would like to inform you of the tentative dates for the upcoming GovCMS Drupal 10 (D10) release and deployment.
The final release date is subject to change, as it will be determined by the testing outcomes. The date will be confirmed when the distribution is released and the release notes are expected to be sent on Monday 31 March 2025.
As a reminder, a SaaS deployment block is in place ONLY while we update the production branches. During this time, you will still be able to develop and deploy to non-production feature branches. We are wanting to give you as much lead time as possible, should you need to adjust your timeframes.
PaaS deployments schedules are not impacted.
Tentative deployment schedule: - Deployment to commence from 6am Tuesday 1 April 2025 and will be conducted throughout the daytime. - Production branches completed by 10am Wednesday 2 April 2025 - Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 3 April 2025
If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support Posted on
Mar 21, 2025 - 12:21 AEDT
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Mar 21, 13:33 AEDT
Update -
Deployment of D10 3.22.0 is complete for production sites and is now commencing on non-production sites. The deployment block has now been lifted.
Mar 18, 15:25 AEDT
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Mar 18, 06:00 AEDT
Scheduled -
Advice - Who is affected: GovCMS Drupal 10 (D10) community. - Distribution was updated on Monday 17 March 2025 - No modules were added/removed from the distribution - No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process. - The D10 distribution will continue to be supported after this update. - If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support
Deployment schedule plan: - Deployment to commence from 6am Tuesday 18 March 2025 and will be conducted throughout the daytime. - Production branches completed by 10am Wednesday 19 March 2025 - Once production branches are completed, status page will be updated and Non-Production branches will kick off - Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 20 March 2025
❗ IMPORTANT NOTICE 1: Deployments during maintenance window - During the scheduled maintenance window, ALL D10 SaaS deployments will be blocked while we deploy to the D10 Production branches. - While the production block is on, you will still be able to develop and deploy to non-production feature branches. - PaaS deployments schedules are not impacted.
❗ IMPORTANT NOTICE 2: Update local environments - Ensure you update your local environments to the latest release. Not rebasing your codebase results in mismatched database configuration causing errors in forklifts and deployments.
❗ IMPORTANT NOTICE 3: For customers with configuration management enabled - The latest configuration from your production database has been created for you in GitLab in a branch called action-required/latest-config-export. - You need to review and test the changes in the merge request. Once you are satisfied, please check the “Delete source branch” box and click “Merge”. - This MUST be done before any new commits. - All subsequent deployments will be blocked in the CI pipeline until this merge request branch is deleted - Not merging the latest configuration provided could result in your new database configuration reverting to an older version when you next deploy, potentially causing issues for your website. - If no merge request is lodged after a release then no configuration has changed and no further action is required.
Distribution update: - Admin Toolbar module from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3 - Bigmenu module from 2.0.0-rc3 to 2.1.0 - DS module from 3.27.0 to 3.28.0 - Embed module from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 - Entity Browser module from 2.12.0 to 2.13.0 - Entity Embed module from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 - Entity Reference Display module from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 - Honeypot module from 2.1.4 to 2.2.2 - Layout Builder Restrictions module from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 - LinkIt module from 7.0.2 to 7.0.3 - Migrate Tools module from 6.0.4 to 6.0.5 - reCAPTCHA v3 module from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 - Redirect module from 1.10.0 to 1.11.0 - Search API module from 1.37.0 to 1.38.0 - Search API Attachments module from 9.0.6 to 10.0.3 - Search API solr module from 4.3.5 to 4.3.8 - simpleSAMLphp Auth module from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 - simpleSAMLphp module from 2.3.5 to 2.3.7 - TFA module from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0
Information for PaaS customers Update your codebase to ensure you are running the latest platform base images and packages, and stay aligned to GovCMS best practice: GovCMS D10 distribution - includes a module update addressing Drupal security vulnerability - updated files will be released on 17 March 2025 - available from https://github.com/govCMS/GovCMS/releases/tag/3.22.0 - you should aim to apply this update to your distribution as soon as possible.