Cease of Operations
At 21:26 UK time, the board of FOSSBots motioned to cease all operations effective 19th March 2023 unanimously.
Statement: Jonathon Fernyhough
FOSSBots are saddened to learn of the passing of Jonathon, a former director of FOSSHOST.
Statement on FOSSHOST CIC
FOSSBots Limited notes the recent comments from FOSSHOST volunteers and the message on the website with sadness.
Death of HM Queen Elizabeth II
FOSSBots were saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The thoughts of our team are with the Royal Family and new King at this time.
Emergency Procedures during the UK Heatwave
Due to the ongoing severe weather and the issuance of a danger to life warning, emergency procedures have been put in place.
FOSSBots LTD takes over control of the project
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - May 5th 2022
Enquiries: staff@fossbots.org / https://fossbots.org
An announcement from the bots team
- LONDON, ENGLAND
- FOR RELEASE AFTER 00:59 19 March 2022
Technical Lead's response to CN thread
On behalf of Miraheze Bots, I'd like to clarify where things stand on numerous fronts.
Activation of the Succession Policy
Effective the publishing of this document, by order of the Technical lead, MacFan4000 has been granted emergency powers for up to 14 days to perform any responsibilities the Technical Lead would normally have excluding the power to change the technical lead.
Technical Lead Statement on IRCCloud Planned Outage
Following the announcement of IRCCloud maintenance on Sunday 21st November, The technical lead has elected to declare an incident affecting our infrastructure for the 21st & 22nd November UTC.
US Elections Deployment Freeze
In order to prevent distruption during the US elections, deployments will be frozen from 11 am UTC to Midnight UTC on 2nd November 2021
Festive Deployment Pause
In line with the Deployment policy, a 12 day pause on deployments will take place over the Christmas period.
Maintenance release of all plugin bundle packages.
On behalf of the development team, I'm proud to announce that all our packages now have versions available that are built on Python 3.9 and with Python 3.10-dev CI.
requests-cache security incident
At 16:38 on 26 March 2021, Automated monitoring alerted our team via Synk that a packaged used on our Beta instance was vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Within an hour, we determined there was no risk.
HTTPS by default
As of today (16 March 2021), @RhinosF1 was able to confirm with HSTS Preload that we are now on the list.
Continued migration of services from *.miraheze.wiki to *.mirahezebots.org domain
As noted by the MirahezeBots system administrators in this status update, system maintenance is planned for approximately 60-90 minutes on 8 March 2021 from 10:25 AM-11:50 AM.
Announcing MirahezeBot version 9.1.1
A small update from the MirahezeBots team...version 9.1.1 has been deployed. You can see the changelog update here in this commit. It's essentially a minor update to correct some development prerequisites that had been preventing causing errors alongside channelmgnt v2 and core developer installs. As such, expect version 10.0.0 to be a robust, feature-rich update.
12 October 2020 Security incident
At 18:40 UK time 12 October 2020, A malicious user exploited a security bug (T117: [CVE-2020-15251] makemodechange failed to check access on restricted changes for self actions allowing ACL bypass {Version 9.0.0 - 9.0.2}) on our production channel in front of us.