We are continually updating our systems to add new features, functionality and improve usability. Our development programme is outlined in our development roadmap. System upgrades are generally released as part of a monthly systems release schedule, and in order to perform the upgrade it is necessary to have a short period of planned maintenance downtime.

Maintenance events

Maintenance usually starts at 7:00 am and results in an outage of about one hour. During this time Online Services, and all registration systems are unavailable. The Automaton receives requests which are queued for processing when systems restart.

The dates listed below show our current planned maintenance schedule. Dates are subject to change, however confirmation is sent out 7 days prior to the event with details of the expected duration and systems affected.  Outage notifications are sent in 3 ways:

• Service announcement web page and RSS feed
• Nom-tech email list
• Twitter: @nominet_systems

If you use any of our systems it is important that as well as checking this page, you utilise one of the notification processes mentioned above.

Release notes

Each of our monthly releases are explained in our monthly release notes. We aim to publish release notes approximately one month prior to launch (with the preceding release), however from time to time we may add functionality at a later date and update the release notes accordingly. A detailed explanation of how we will communicate system changes is available.

Event title	Date	Start time	Release notes	Status
March 2012 release	6 March 2012	07:00	March  notes	Planned
February 2012 release	7 February 2012	07:00	February  notes	Completed
January 2012 release	12 January 2012	07:00	January  notes	Completed
December 2011 release	6 December 2011	07:00	December notes	Completed
November 2011 release	9 November 2011	06:00	November notes	Completed
October 2011 release	13 October 2011	06:00	October notes	Completed
September 2011 release	13 September 2011	06:00	September notes	Completed
August 2011 release	9 August 2011	07:00	August notes	Cancelled
July 2011 (interim) release	21 July 2011	07:00	21 July notes	Completed
July 2011 release	5 July 2011	07:00	July notes	Cancelled
June 2011 release	7 June 2011	06:30	June notes	Completed
May 2011 release	5 May 2011	06:30	May notes	Completed
April 2011 release	5 April 2011	07:00	April notes	Completed
March 2011 release	9 March 2011	07:00	March notes	Completed
February 2011 release	9 February 2011	07:00	February notes	Completed
January 2011 release	12 January 2011	06:00	January notes	Completed
December 2010 release	7 December 2010	06:00	December notes	Completed
November 2010 release	2 November 2010	07:00	November notes	Completed
October 2010 release	5 October 2010	07:00	October notes	Completed
September 2010 release	7 September 2010	07:00	September notes	Completed
August 2010 release	3 August 2010	07:00	August notes	Completed
July 2010 release	6 July 2010	07:00	July notes	Completed

An archive of the previous Planned Changes RSS feed is available.

If you have any questions about our system developments, please contact our Customer Services Technical Support team on support@nominet.org.uk or by phone on 01865 332233.