Notice of upcoming GovCMS Solr8-9 upgrade

Scheduled Maintenance Report for GovCMS

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Nov 14, 2025 - 09:50 AEDT

Update

Deployments are now complete for production environments and is now commencing on non-production environments.
Posted Nov 12, 2025 - 13:31 AEDT

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Nov 12, 2025 - 06:00 AEDT

Scheduled

SaaS Advice
We would like to inform you of an upcoming change to GovCMS for the Solr8-9 upgrade.

Key takeaways:
- unlike other Solr updates, this change will not require changes to configuration
- this deployment will not require a deployment block
- Solr indexis preserved during this update
- your site will not be required to be reindexed.
- no outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.

Tentative schedule:
- Release and the release notes are expected to be sent on Tuesday 11 November 2025 .
- Deployments commence from 6am Wednesday 12 November 2025 and will be conducted throughout the daytime.
- Production branches completed by 2pm Wednesday 12 November 2025
- Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 13 November 2025

PaaS Advice
PaaS customers are required to manage the Solr8-9 update for their websites. Please ensure you are running the latest platform base images and packages, and stay aligned to GovCMS best practice:

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support
Posted Nov 05, 2025 - 17:28 AEDT
This scheduled maintenance affected: GovCMS Projects (Individual websites).