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GitHub Upgrade – 2.21.4

The 2.21.4 update is a security update, fixing a few critical security issues. Since it is a critical security patch, we are applying the patch off-schedule as soon as possible. We will be applying the patch at 5:00 PM EST on August 12th.

GitHub Upgrade – 2.21.2

Due to issues with the package from GitHub, the 2.21.0 release was pulled, and we missed 2.21.2 while waiting for the archive and removal process to complete, so we’re jumping straight to 2.21.2. We will be upgrading to 2.21.2 at 5:00 PM EST on July 20th.

GitHub Upgrade – 2.20.9

The 2.20.9 update is a security update, fixing a CVE the GitHub software, as well a minor bug, and applying OS package upgrades. We will be applying the patch at 5:00 PM EST on June 4th.

GitHub Upgrade – 2.20.7/2.20.8

The 2.20.7 update is a small update, fixing a few bugs and applying OS package upgrades. We will also be applying the 2.20.8 update, which fixes a few more minor bugs. We will be applying the patch at 5:00 PM EST on June 1st.

GitHub Upgrade Schedule Change

Historically we have always scheduled upgrades for the NC State GitHub service for Friday afternoons at 5:00 PM. Rather than continuing to rely on the benevolence of GitHub support going above and beyond what we are entitled to, we are modifying our upgrade schedule to avoid outages from upgrades rolling through the weekend. Therefore, we will now be scheduling all GitHub upgrades for Monday at 5:00 PM.

GitHub Upgrade – 2.20.6

The 2.20.6 update is a security update, fixing several CVEs in underlying software, fixing a few bugs and applying OS package upgrades. We will be applying the patch at 5:00 PM EST on May 1st.

GitHub Upgrade – 2.20.5

We will be jumping from 2.19.10 to 2.20.5, this upgrade will include several new features and bugfixes from the entire 2.20 series so far. Additionally, we will be enabling GitHub Connect as a part of this upgrade. We will be upgrading to 2.20.5 at 5:00 PM EST on April 17th.

Account Archival and Removal

We will be starting the account archive process at 10:00 AM EST, on Thursday, April 2. There is approximately 15GB of data to process across ~950 accounts. We don't anticipate this process taking longer than the weekend to complete, and hope to have the process finished by the close of business on Friday, if not before. The following Wednesday, April 8, beginning at 10:00 AM EST, we will begin removing the accounts. This process should complete within an hour or so.

GitHub Upgrade – 2.19.9/2.19.10

The 2.19.9 update is a small update, fixing a few bugs and applying OS package upgrades and improving performance for background processes. We will also be applying the 2.19.10 update, which fixes a few more minor bugs. We will be applying the patch at 5:00 PM EST on Mar 27th.

Extended Maintenance for Server Migrations

The maintenance is scheduled for March 12th, from 5:00PM to 11:00PM. Contact github@help.ncsu.edu if you have any questions or concerns. https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/news/5e679c61