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Following successful compatibility testing, all hosted sites are now running under PHP 8.5.0.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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All front end web servers have been upgraded to nginx v1.29.2 which was released on 7 October 2025.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM

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All front end web servers have been upgraded to nginx 1.29.1 along with the latest OWASP CRS ruleset:
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August 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM

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Currently none of the hosted WordPress sites are affected by this major outage.
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The map tile servers for @huddersfield.exposed were affected and the inaccessible files have been deployed from backup to a temporary web server to make them accessible again.

Service Issue - LKE and Object Storage - All Regions

Linode's Status Page - Service Issue - LKE and Object Storage - All Regions.

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July 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Front end web servers have been upgraded to nginx 1.29.0
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June 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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All hosted sites have been upgraded to PHP 8.4.8
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June 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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All hosted sites have been upgraded to PHP 8.4.7
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May 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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All servers running Debian Bookworm have been patched to kernel 6.1.135-1
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April 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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The front-end webservers have now been upgraded to the latest releases of nginx (1.27.5) and ModSecurity (3.0.14)
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April 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM

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All hosted WordPress sites have been upgraded to 6.8
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April 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM

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All hosted sites upgraded to PHP 8.4.6
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April 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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All hosted sites upgraded to PHP 8.4.5
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March 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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The front-end webservers have now been upgraded to the latest release of nginx. The upgrade was previously postponed due to bug #336 in the ModSecurity-nginx connector.
nginx.org/en/CHANGES
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February 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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All WordPress sites were upgraded to WordPress 6.7.2 shortly after its release. However, plans to upgrade the nginx web servers to 1.27.4 are on hold pending the resolution of this bug in the current version of the ModSecurity connector 😥 github.com/owasp-modsec...

Compiling Ok in AlmaLinux 8.10, but not working · Issue #336 · owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity-nginx

I managed to compile it ok on AlmaLinux 8.10, a dozen times, in different ways, with 7 different kernels, on three different hardware, and in none of them did I have any problems building the new v...

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February 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM

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All hosted sites upgraded to PHP 8.4.2
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December 24, 2024 at 9:33 AM

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PHP 8.4 testing is going well and it's likely that all hosted sites will be automatically migrated from 8.3 before the end of the year.
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December 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM

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If you look after a .uk website, be aware that Chinese hackers are heavily targeting UK sites at the moment. If you've been putting off applying security patches and updates, you might want to reconsider that!
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December 14, 2024 at 1:30 PM

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A relaxing Saturday morning compiling the latest version of nginx to deploy onto the web servers.
nginx.org/en/CHANGES

November 30, 2024 at 10:37 AM

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We've previously offered Matomo Analytics as an optional extra and can now provide SlimStat if that's your preference. By default, all hosted sites now have SlimStat enabled for free with:
- 90 day data retention
- full GDPR compliance
- no tracking cookies (so no need for a cookie banner)