Publishing functionality is now fully available again. Apologies for the brief outage.
If you experience any problems, please contact support in the usual way.
Thanks for bearing with us while we make these essential improvements to GOV.UK.
Best wishes,
Chris
Posted Jan 16, 2024 - 14:02 GMT
In progress
Please bear with us while we address an unexpected issue. There may be delays in publishing new content or changing URLs/titles of existing content.
Posted Jan 16, 2024 - 13:38 GMT
Verifying
Verification is currently underway for the maintenance items.
Posted Jan 16, 2024 - 13:12 GMT
In progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Jan 16, 2024 - 12:00 GMT
Scheduled
Hello,
We plan to do some maintenance work on the GOV.UK Publishing applications on Tue 16 January 2024 between 12:00 and 16:00 GMT.
Everything should continue to work normally throughout.
However, if we encounter unforeseen difficulties then there is a chance that publishing new content or changing URLs of existing content might be delayed in taking effect until the maintenance is finished.
We're letting you know so that you can plan around these times if you so wish. If you have highly time-sensitive content to publish at the same time as the maintenance, contact govuk-platform-engineering@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk in advance and we can reschedule. If emergency publishing is needed on the day, we’ll either roll back the changes or finish them if that will be faster.
If you encounter problems during or after the maintenance, please contact GOV.UK support as normal.
You can follow updates on the GOV.UK Status Page.
Best wishes, Chris Banks, on behalf of the GOV.UK Platform Engineering team
Background information for the curious:
GOV.UK has a component called Router, which has a database that keeps track of all the pages on www.gov.uk and where to fetch them when users browse the website. We need to move this database to our new Kubernetes infrastructure so that we can finally switch off the old infrastructure. This reduces our engineering costs and helps us keep GOV.UK secure and reliable.
We've designed and tested this change to be zero-impact to you as the user, but we still need to let you know about it because with these things there's always a chance of unforeseen circumstances arising in production that didn't come up during testing.
Posted Jan 08, 2024 - 16:20 GMT
This scheduled maintenance affected: Publishing applications.