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
GovCMS Hosting and Infrastructure
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Hosting Infrastructure (Amazon EKS)
Under Maintenance
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 23, 13:53 AEST
Update -
Deployments of D11 4.3.3 hotfix are complete for production sites and are now commencing on D11 non-prod sites. The deployment block has been lifted.
Jun 23, 11:08 AEST
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 23, 06:00 AEST
Scheduled -
Advice We would like to inform you of an upcoming GovCMS Drupal 10 (D10) Drupal 11 (D11) release and deployment. It addresses a recent security advisories issued by Drupal.org. GovCMS assessed the CRITICAL risk as they applied to D11 distribution, subsequently the security residual risk remained CRITICAL. The D11 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.
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.
Deployment schedule: - Release notes sent Monday 22 June 2026 - Deployment to commence from 7am Tuesday 23 June 2026 and will be conducted throughout the daytime. - Production branches completed by 10am Wednesday 24 June 2026 - Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 25 June 2026
Completed -
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jun 16, 08:30 AEST
In progress -
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jun 16, 06:30 AEST
Scheduled -
We will be upgrading Lagoon to the latest version of 2.32.0
No disruptions to the sites running are expected. There may be delays to new builds, or partial outages in the GraphQL API to Lagoon during this time.
May 28, 13:02 AEST
Resolved -
The memory management issue within Solr search has now been resolved.
Following the update and restart of the Solr pods within the SaaS Production cluster, engineers have confirmed that the Solr service is operating normally. Monitoring indicates that search response times have returned to expected levels.
The GovCMS Infrastructure team will continue to monitor the service; however, this incident is now considered resolved.
Jun 13, 08:11 AEST
Update -
Engineers have prepared an update to address the memory management issue identified within the Solr search platform that has been contributing to degraded search performance.
To apply this update, all Solr pods within the SaaS Production cluster will be restarted commencing at 21:00 AEST. During this activity, customers may experience brief interruptions or increased response times for Solr search services.
The application of the same update for the PaaS production cluster will be delivered during the regular maintenance period on 16 June 2026.
The GovCMS Infrastructure team will continue to monitor the platform closely and provide further updates as required.
Jun 12, 18:19 AEST
Update -
The GovCMS Infrastructure team has isolated the cause of the issue currently contributing to slower-than-normal Solr Search response times.
Engineers are actively preparing and implementing an update to address the identified issue. We will continue to monitor service performance throughout this process.
The next update on the status of this incident will be provided at 18:00 AEST.
Jun 12, 16:48 AEST
Investigating -
A small number of sites have indicated SOLR site search is not functioning correctly, search results may take a long time to display or may not display at all. If your site is affected, please raise a service desk ticket. We will update this issue as more information becomes available.
Jun 12, 12:33 AEST