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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

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GovCMS Hosting and Infrastructure Operational
Hosting Infrastructure (Amazon EKS) Operational
Akamai CDN cache Operational
AWS Compute (Sydney) Operational
AWS S3 Storage (Sydney) Operational
AWS LoadBalancer (Sydney) Operational
GovCMS E-mail relay (AWS Simple Email Service) Operational
HTTPS Redirect Service Operational
GovCMS Projects Operational
Individual websites Operational
GovCMS Sites Dashboard Operational
GovCMS Sites Logging System (OpenSearch) Operational
GovCMS GitLab Operational
Deployment Infrastructure Operational
Lagoon API Operational
Akamai API Operational
Lagoon tasks Operational
GovCMS Service Desk (Freshdesk) Operational
Freshdesk email notifications Operational
Freshdesk search Operational
Freshdesk incoming emails Operational
Freshdesk outgoing emails Operational
Other Operational
Pygmy Operational
Docker Desktop Operational
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Scheduled Maintenance

Regular Weekly Maintenance - GovCMS Oct 13, 2026 23:00 - Oct 14, 2026 06:00 AEDT

We are conducting regular maintenance on our systems. The maintenance will last for 7 hours.
Posted on Oct 06, 2026 - 07:00 AEDT

FYI: Notice of upcoming GovCMS D11 release 4.6.0 Oct 20, 2026 06:00 - Oct 24, 2026 10:00 AEDT

Advice
We would like to inform you of the tentative dates for the upcoming GovCMS Drupal 11 (D11) release and deployment

Thank you to everyone that has completed testing. The official preview period ended on 7 October 2026. However, will keep the preview environments available for you to continue reviewing next week. In parallel we will completing our final regression testing on the release.

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 19 October 2026.

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:
- Deployment to commence from 6am Tuesday 20 October 2026 and will be conducted throughout the daytime.
- Production branches completed by 10am Wednesday 21 October 2026
- Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 22 October 2026
Posted on Oct 09, 2026 - 10:16 AEDT

Oct 10, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Oct 9, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 8, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 7, 2026

Gitlab upgrade
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Oct 7, 06:06 AEDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Oct 6, 23:06 AEDT
Scheduled - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Oct 6, 23:05 AEDT
Regular Weekly Maintenance - GovCMS
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Oct 7, 06:00 AEDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Oct 6, 23:00 AEDT
Scheduled - We are conducting regular maintenance on our systems. The maintenance will last for 7 hours.
Sep 29, 06:00 AEST

Oct 6, 2026

Oct 5, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 1, 2026

FYI: Notice of upcoming GovCMS D11 hotfix 4.5.1.1
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Oct 1, 10:20 AEST
Update - Deployments of D11 4.5.1.1 hotfix are complete for production sites and are now commencing on D11 non-prod sites.
The deployment block has been lifted.
Sep 30, 12:19 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 30, 06:00 AEST
Scheduled - Advice
We would like to inform you of the upcoming GovCMS Drupal 11 (D11) hotfix release and deployment. It addresses 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.

Core Update:
Update drupal/core from 11.3.16 to 11.3.17
(https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/11.3.17)
- Drupal core - Third-party libraries-SA-CORE-2026-013
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2026-013)

Module Updates:
Update drupal/webform module from 6.3.0-rc2 to 6.3.1
(https://www.drupal.org/project/webform/releases/6.3.1)
- Webform - Critical - Remote Code Execution - SA-CONTRIB-2026-175
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-175)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Access bypass -SA-CONTRIB-2026-174
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-174)
- Webform - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-173
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-173)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-172
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-172)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-171
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-171)
- Webform - Less critical - Denial of service - SA-CONTRIB-2026-170
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-170)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-169
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-169)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-168
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-168)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-167
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-167)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-166
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-166)
- Webform - Less critical - Access bypass - SA-CONTRIB-2026-165
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-165)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Access bypass, Server-side request forgery - SA-CONTRIB-2026-164
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-164)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-163
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-163)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-162
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-162)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-161
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-161)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-160
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-160)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-159
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-159)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-158
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-158)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-155
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-155)
- Webform - Moderately critical - Cross-site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2026-154
(https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2026-154)

Deployment schedule:
- Deployment to commence from 6am Wednesday 30 September 2026 and will be conducted throughout the daytime.
- Production branches completed by 3pm Wednesday 30 September 2026
- Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 1 October 2026

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. PaaS deployments schedules are not impacted.

SaaS Actions:

All D11 SaaS customers will need to check their website after the deployment to ensure there aren’t any issues.

IMPORTANT NOTICE 1: deployments during maintenance window

During the scheduled maintenance window, ALL D11 SaaS deployments will be blocked while we deploy to the D11 master/production environments. While the production block is on, you will still be able to develop and deploy to non-production feature branches.

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. Not rebasing your codebase could result in your new database configuration reverting to an older version when you next deploy, potentially causing issues for your website.

All subsequent commits will be blocked in the CI pipeline until this merge request branch is deleted.

If no merge request is lodged after a release, then no configuration has changed and no further action is required.

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 (29 September 2026) > https://github.com/govCMS/GovCMS/releases/tag/4.5.1.1
- GovCMS lagoon (29 September 2026) > https://github.com/govCMS/lagoon/releases/tag/11.3.8.3
- GovCMS scaffold (15 September 2025) > https://github.com/govCMS/scaffold/releases/tag/4.1.0
- GovCMS scaffold-tooling (24 August 2026) >
https://github.com/govCMS/scaffold-tooling/releases/tag/6.0.9

In the Pipeline:

Drupal Core 11.4.x Preview
GovCMS is midway through the preview periodfor the next Drupal Core update from 11.3.x to 11.4.x and PHP update from 8.3 to 8.5. The preview feature branch will be available for available 16 September – 7 October

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

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support
Sep 25, 10:48 AEST

Sep 30, 2026

Regular Weekly Maintenance - GovCMS
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Sep 30, 05:00 AEST
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Sep 29, 22:00 AEST
Scheduled - We are conducting regular maintenance on our systems. The maintenance will last for 7 hours.
Sep 22, 06:00 AEST

Sep 29, 2026

Sep 28, 2026

No incidents reported.

Sep 27, 2026

No incidents reported.

Sep 26, 2026

No incidents reported.

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