FYI: GovCMS D11 hotfix 4.5.0.1
Update - Deployments of D11 4.5.0.1 hotfix are complete for production sites. The deployment block has been lifted.
Aug 07, 2026 - 09:41 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 06, 2026 - 19:30 AEST
Scheduled - Advice
GovCMS will be releasing and deploying a hotfix to the GovCMS D11 Distribution commencing from 7:30PM (AEST) Thursday 6 August 2026. This hotfix is to address an issue with Entity Reference Revisions.

Production and Non-Production deployments will kick off in parallel to reduce the bulk deployment times.
As a reminder, a SaaS deployment block is in place ONLY while we update the production branches. PaaS deployments schedules are not impacted.
Aug 6, 2026 19:30-20:30 AEST

About This Site

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

Uptime over the past 90 days. View historical uptime.
GovCMS Hosting and Infrastructure Operational
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
Hosting Infrastructure (Amazon EKS) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Akamai CDN cache Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
AWS Compute (Sydney) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
AWS S3 Storage (Sydney) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
AWS LoadBalancer (Sydney) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
GovCMS E-mail relay (AWS Simple Email Service) Operational
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
HTTPS Redirect Service Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
GovCMS Projects Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
Individual websites Under Maintenance
90 days ago
99.97 % uptime
Today
GovCMS Sites Dashboard Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
GovCMS Sites Logging System (OpenSearch) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
GovCMS GitLab Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Deployment Infrastructure Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Lagoon API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Akamai API Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Lagoon tasks Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
GovCMS Service Desk (Freshdesk) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Freshdesk email notifications Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Freshdesk search Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Freshdesk incoming emails Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Freshdesk outgoing emails Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Other Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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Pygmy Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
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Docker Desktop Operational
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Degraded Performance
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No downtime recorded on this day.
No data exists for this day.
had a major outage.
had a partial outage.

No incidents or maintenance related to this downtime.

Scheduled Maintenance

Lagoon 2.33.1 Upgrade Aug 11, 2026 06:30-08:30 AEST

We will be upgrading Lagoon to the latest version of 2.33.1

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.
Posted on Aug 06, 2026 - 16:28 AEST

Regular Weekly Maintenance - GovCMS Aug 11, 2026 22:00 - Aug 12, 2026 05:00 AEST

We are conducting regular maintenance on our systems. The maintenance will last for 7 hours.
Posted on Aug 04, 2026 - 06:00 AEST

Aug 8, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Aug 7, 2026

Unresolved incident: FYI: GovCMS D11 hotfix 4.5.0.1.

Aug 6, 2026

GovCMS D11 update 4.5.0
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 6, 09:28 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 4, 06:00 AEST
Update - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Aug 3, 16:22 AEST
Update - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Aug 3, 16:20 AEST
Scheduled - Advice
We would like to inform you of an upcoming Drupal 11 (D11) release and deployment. It addresses a recent security advisory issued by Drupal.org. GovCMS assessed the MODERATELY CRITICAL risk as they applied to D11 distribution, subsequently the security residual risk remained MODERATELY 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.

Core Update:
- Drupal core from 11.3.13 to 11.3.14(https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/11.3.14)
- Drupal core - Moderately critical - Information disclosure - SA-CORE-2026-010(https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2026-010)
- Drupal core - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CORE-2026-011(https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2026-011)
- Drupal core - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CORE-2026-012(https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2026-012)


Module Updates:
- Better Exposed Filters from 7.1.1 to 7.1.2(https://www.drupal.org/project/better_exposed_filters/releases/7.1.2)
- Diff module from 1.10.0 to 2.1.0(https://www.drupal.org/project/diff/releases/2.1.0)
- Dynamic Entity Reference module from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2(https://www.drupal.org/project/dynamic_entity_reference/releases/3.2.2)
- External Auth from 2.0.11 to 2.0.12(https://www.drupal.org/project/externalauth/releases/2.0.12)
- Inline Entity Form module from 3.0.0-rc21 to 3.0.0(https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form/releases/3.0.0)
- Media File Delete module from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2(https://www.drupal.org/project/media_file_delete/releases/1.3.2)
- Migrate Plus module from 6.0.9 to 6.0.10(https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate_plus/releases/6.0.10)
- Redirect module from 1.11.0 to 1.13.0(https://www.drupal.org/project/redirect/releases/8.x-1.13)
- Rest Menu Items module from 3.0.6 to 3.0.7(https://www.drupal.org/project/rest_menu_items/releases/3.0.7)
- Search API module from 1.40.0 to 1.41.0(https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/releases/8.x-1.41)
- Search API Attachments module from 10.0.8 to 10.0.10(https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_attachments/releases/10.0.10)
- Search API Autocomplete from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0(https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_autocomplete/releases/8.x-1.12)
- Search API Autocomplete - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-082(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-082)
- Simple Oauth module from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1(https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_oauth/releases/6.1.1)

Deployment schedule:
- Production and Non-Production deployments commence from 7:00AM (AEST) Tuesday 4 August 2026
- Production environments completed by 10:00am (AEST) Wednesday 5 August 2026.
- Non-Production environments completed by 10:00am (AEST) Thursday 6 August 2026.
- PaaS deployments schedules are not impacted.
- Subscribe to the GovCMS Status Page to get real-time deployment updates.


PaaS Actions:
Update your codebase to ensure you are running the latest platform base images and packages, and stay aligned to GovCMS best practice:
- GovCMS distribution (3 August 2026) > https://github.com/govCMS/GovCMS/releases/tag/4.5.0
- GovCMS lagoon (3 August 2026) > https://github.com/govCMS/lagoon/releases/tag/11.3.8
- GovCMS scaffold (8 December 2025) > https://github.com/govCMS/scaffold/releases/tag/4.0.0
- GovCMS scaffold-tooling (18 June 2026) > https://github.com/govCMS/scaffold-tooling/releases/tag/6.0.8


In the Pipeline:
Configuration Management
GovCMS has been refining its stale configuration scripts. Prior to the next update 4.6.0, GovCMS will be implementing a scheduled monthly configuration cleanup exercise. For more information see Knowledge Base article: https://govcms.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/51000490006

Drupal Core 11.4.x Preview
GovCMS is preparing for the next Core update from 11.3.x to 11.4.x. At this stage, the previews will likely be in late August / early September 2026. The 11.x4-preview feature branch will be available for 2 weeks. More information coming soon.

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support
Jul 24, 17:08 AEST
Emergency Maintenance - GovCMS
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 6, 02:00 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 5, 22:00 AEST
Scheduled - We have some follow up tasks from the regular maintenance this week that we need to address in an emergency window tonight.
Aug 5, 14:38 AEST

Aug 5, 2026

Gitlab upgrade
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 5, 05:01 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 4, 22:01 AEST
Scheduled - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Aug 4, 21:04 AEST
Regular Weekly Maintenance - GovCMS
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Aug 5, 05:00 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Aug 4, 22:00 AEST
Scheduled - We are conducting regular maintenance on our systems. The maintenance will last for 7 hours.
Jul 28, 06:00 AEST

Aug 4, 2026

Aug 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

Aug 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 31, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 30, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 29, 2026

Emails not sending
Resolved - A fix has been deployed and emails should be working again as expected.

Further information can be provided on request by raising a service desk ticket.

Also please raise a service desk ticket, if you continue to have issues with your email.
Jul 29, 10:54 AEST
Investigating - We are aware of an issue affecting multiple websites (SaaS and PaaS) that is preventing emails from sending.

This includes both 2FA login emails and webform submission emails.

We are actively investigating the issue and will update this alert when we know more.
Jul 29, 10:25 AEST
Regular Weekly Maintenance - GovCMS
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 29, 05:00 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 28, 22:00 AEST
Scheduled - We are conducting regular maintenance on our systems. The maintenance will last for 7 hours.
Jul 21, 06:00 AEST

Jul 28, 2026

Jul 27, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 26, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 25, 2026

No incidents reported.

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