Issues on Riseup status

RiseupVPN outage

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:16:17 +0000

Due to some infrastructure issue RiseupVPN is currently down. Some people may see a warning about an expired certificate, but there’s more behind it. We’re actively working on it to fully bring back the service.

We’re fully aware of the outage, so at this point there’s no need to open new support ticket.

[Resolved] Etherpad outage - pad.riseup.net

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Busy day for the problems on our services! Now it’s etherpad that will be down for a while and sadly this issue will most likely take much longer. We’re expecting pad.riseup.net to be unavailable for several hours, if not days. There was an unexpected database restart and as a precaution we’re running a very, very slow check.

[Resolved] Mailing lists outage

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:46:00 +0000

The issue is resolved, thanks everyone for the patience \o/

We’re expriencing an outage of the mailing lists. It’s possible to send a message but you may have received a message that your list doesn’t exist or you can log in to lists.riseup.net and you might not be able to see your list. Do not worry, we have all the data and we’re looking into fixing the issue as soon as possible.

[Resolved] Disabling-roundcube as precaution

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:17:54 +0000

the webmail is back online, we are sorry for the problems this produced

As a precaution, we’ve disabled roundcube due to the latest CVE affecting PHP without a fix being available yet.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience, we’ll restore the service as soon as possible.

You can still use an email client like thunderbird or k9-mail / thunderbird mobile to browse your email.

[Resolved] Scheduled email maintenance

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Maintenance is over, we’ll go eat some fruit and bean salad. Not mixed, one of us is eating fruit, the other is eating a bean salad. But we will both rest. Write us on support.riseup.net to let us know if you notice something not working as you expect it to. And take care 🖤

We have planned maintenance of the email infrastructure today at 12:00 UTC. We expect it to last at least three hours but not all users will be affected all the time. We will update this page as soon as we’re done!

[Resolved] account.riseup.net outage

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:50:14 +0000

account.riseup.net is set up once again \o/ The onion address for it isn’t working at the moment, there is a new one that will be signed and shared. If you notice anything else not working as expected let us know on support.riseup.net

While polishing a server today our fingers got a bit slippery and it caused an outage of account.riseup.net. We’re working on fixing it, send your love to the human that made the error!

[Resolved] Crabgrass maintenance

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Maintenance is over and everything should be working as usual! If you spot any issues please let us know at support.riseup.net 🖤

It seems like maintenance today is taking the scenic route so it will be taking a lot longer than we expected.

We will be doing some maintenance on Crabgrass today from 15:30 UTC. We’re expecting the outage to last around three to four hours so if everything goes smoothly we.riseup.net should be back online by 19:00 UTC. This page will be updated as soon as we’re done. Thanks everyone for the patience \o/

[Resolved] Outage 2026.08.06

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:49:26 +0000

All services including etherpad are operational again! If there are any further disruptions spotted or any errors please let us know by opening a ticket at support.riseup.net. Thanks everyone for the patience!

Services should be restoring except etherpad which will take several hours to bring it back. We are sorry for the troubles this is causing

We are experience a power related outage that has several of our services unreachable. We are working to fix the situation.

[Resolved] Etherpad upgrade

Sat, 30 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Our dear Etherpad instance (https://pad.riseup.net) needs to be upgraded, along with the server running it, to do so we’ll have to shut down the service while doing some operations.

The upgrade window is planned on Saturday, May 30th, from 1600-1800 UTC.

We’ll update the status page once the operations are completed.

[Resolved] Services disrupted, fix in progress

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:17:06 +0000

services should be restoring

Due to an expiring certificate authority, various riseup systems are experiencing outages. Work is underway to restore services to normal operation. Until things have stabilized you may have issues connecting to various riseup services, logging into your email account, or sending email.

[Resolved] More network problems

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:01:00 +0000

A new issue is affecting our mail system, we are working to identify it and fix it as soon as possible. We we sorry for the problems this can be generating.

[Resolved] Unexpected outage in the mail service

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The mail service has been restored. There was a network misconfiguration that was tracked down and resolved. Thank you all for your support!

We are experiencing networking issues with our email servers. We are working on resolving them, but there is no time estimation for when that will be at the moment. We are sorry for the problems this is creating.

[Resolved] Scheduled support maintenance

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

On Monday January 13 2025 at 12.00 UTC we will start the replacement of the helpdesk software. We will need some time to set everything up and test that it’s functioning as expected - if it all goes well it shouldn’t take long. Once the new helpdesk is available, it will be possible to receive support from us again!

[Resolved] partial network outage

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 03:36:50 +0000

Routing issues resolved.

We are experiencing a network routing issue with one of our networks on one of our network providers. This mostly affects non-core riseup services and 3rd party hosted servers. A support issue has been submitted to the provider, they are usually pretty fast at responding/fixing, but no ETA for a fix currently.

[Resolved] partial outage in 0xacab pages

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:28:10 +0000

The issue at hand was resolved

We have a problem with the domain itcouldbewor.se, it’s unclear when it’s going to be resolved. If you rely on it for your project, we are sorry for the problems this is creating.

[Resolved] 0xacab web interface temporarily disabled

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:44:12 +0000

Apologies for the interruption in service. There appear to still be people on the internet who don’t know how to play well with others.

The web interface for 0xacab is temporarily disabled, no estimated time to get it back. SSH access and E-mail actions are expected to keep working.

[Resolved] Scheduled work in the pad service

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:03:25 +0000

The maintenance was done and the pad service should be restored!

Our pad service will be down from 18:00 (UTC) to 19:00 today (Sunday 16th) while we perform some maintenance work.

Thanks for your understanding.

[Resolved] Continuing

Fri, 31 May 2024 20:26:26 +0000

The general network issue was solved, but there are still problems with our network provider’s routing so riseup services are inaccessible from some places on the internet. The provider is investigating.

[Resolved] Network outage in Seattle

Fri, 31 May 2024 16:48:04 +0000

We are experiencing a network outage in Seattle, most riseup services are inaccessible. The upstream bandwidth provider’s router went down and they are working on it. No ETA for repair yet.

[Resolved] unexpected outage in the lists service

Thu, 09 May 2024 19:10:17 +0000

Our list server is having a hardware problem, we are aware of the situation and working to restore it. But it’s unclear when it will be generailly

[Resolved] maintenance: roundcube infrastructure ugprade

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:17:22 +0000

Everything want well, you might have noticed a small roundcube downtime, but otherwise there should not be any issue. If you have some issue with roundcube, please visit https://support.riseup.net, and open an issue.

We will perform some upgrades on the Roundcube infrastructure. There should not be long lasting outage, but there might be some small glitches while we reboot the web servers.

[Resolved] power issues at provider

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:35:10 +0000

All issues should be resolved

Email is backlogged due to the outage, it is being processed in batches and will be delivered.

Power has been restored, an inventory of circuit draws and a rebalancing of circuit loads happened. Things are back to normal now, sorry for the interruption!

Someone is on-site resolving issue now. Services are starting to return to normal, but not everything is resolved yet.

Due to an overloaded circuit at our datacenter, several riseup services are currently unavailable. We will update this status information when we have an ETA.

[Resolved] Network issues from some locations

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:46:32 +0000

Things should be working as expectedly, we are sorry for the troubles.

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Out network provider is investigating the source of a connectivity problem that makes most of our services inaccessible from some locations. If you are affected by this issue, please try to access them using the Tor Browser.

We ask for patience, we can’t do anything at the moment from our side to mitigate the issue.

[Resolved] pad service down

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:49:32 +0000

Pad was restored, after over a day of downtime. We are sorry for the troubles.

Our pad service is for unexpected problems. The issue has been identified and we are in the process of fixing it, but it might take several hours before it can be restablished.

Until then, please try use another pad service such as the one provided by sistemli.

[Resolved] More email servers upgrades incoming

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0000

All work was done, systems should be performing normally!
We are performing a second round of upgrades, there might be some minutes where the e-mail service is inaccessible.

These will be done on April 8th, 15:00 UTC. Please be patient!

[Resolved] Email servers upgrades in progress, expect some turbulence.

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:24:27 +0000

We are working on upgrading some of our core email infrastructure. While this happens, some users will experience some disruptions when attempting to connect. These will resolved as soon as possible, but have no fear, your email is being queued for delivery, so you will not lose any incoming email.

19:44@utc: systems should be working again, we are monitoring the situation to see if there are any issues.

[Resolved] Pad disruption

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:16:21 +0000

Etherpad service is experiencing some disruptions today, we are working on stabilizing things.

[Resolved] pad service down

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:13:44 +0000

The etherpad service has been restored.

Etherpad service is currently down, we are investigating and should have it resolved shortly.

[Resolved] Paris VPN gateway availability degredation

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:47:51 +0000

15:25 Service was restored after the machine was rebuilt.

One of our Paris gateways has suffered a fatal hardware problem and will not come back. We are working to replace it, but until we are able, we will have one less gateway available in that region. This will result in slightly degraded VPN performance as more resources must be shared.

[Resolved] Scheduled Pad Maintenance

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:20:00 +0000

16.30 There weren’t any issues and the maintenance was done quicker than we expected. Happy writing!

We need to perform more work in our pad service, from Oct 14 14:00 (UTC) to 16:00 you will not be able to use or access any document on it while do some changes to make it more robust. We are sorry for any trouble this can cause.

[Resolved] etherpad

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:44:55 +0000

16:50 @utc The pad service should be restored and working, we are very sorry for the disruptions. We are monitoring it closely to identify any problem. If you find any problem after a couple of hours of this message, please don’t hesitate to open a support ticket at support.riseup.net.
16:20 @utc We are working on restoring the service and should be done in the next hour or two, hopefully earlier. No data is expected to be lost by this failure but some things might be a little slower.
14:35 @utc We are investigating a problem with our pad database server. Resolving this will take an unknow time at this moment but we are working as quickly as we can to solve it. We are very sorry for the troubles this might cause you.

Other pad providers: pad.systemli.org, framapad

[Resolved] New Onion Address for Riseup Share

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:55:12 +0000

There is a new Onion Service address for share.riseup.net, please visit https://www.riseup.net/en/security/network-security/tor#riseups-tor-onion-services to obtain the new address.

[Resolved] Problems connecting to vpn gateways

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 11:53:45 +0000

Update: A new Windows version is available which should resolve any issues connecting for Windows users. If you have issues, please report them - August 16, 10:18 UTC
Update: Windows work is ongoing, our code-signing certificate has been re-issued, this took longer than expected due to the verification requirements. The person who can update the Windows client will start working on this in a few days. Apologies that this has taken longer than expected - July 26, 13:57 UTC
Identified: The version of RiseupVPN for Windows was built with an older and unsupported version of the underlying cryptographic library. A new version of the Windows client is being prepared to fix this issue. You will need to update when it becomes available. We are thinking of you, and we are sorry for the trouble, but please be patient as we wrestle with the Windows beast. Lots of love! - July 7, 11:53 UTC
Identified: If you are an Android user, please go to your App Storage, find the RiseupVPN app, stop it, and then click both the “Clear Storage” and “Clear Cache”. Then attempt to connect again. - July 7, 11:53 UTC
Identified: Mac: If you uninstall RiseupVPN, and then go download the latest version and install that, it should resolve your issue! - July 7, 11:53 UTC

[Resolved] webmail maintenance in progress

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:43:46 +0000

This maintenance was completed. If you still experience issues, please send us a help request!

If you are experiencing issues connecting to our webmail (https://mail.riseup.net), this is because we are currently performing some maintenance on the service. It will be back soon!

[Resolved] delays and slowness on our network

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:52:58 +0000

The issues affecting our network have been resolved!

You may experience some slow loading on some of our services, we are investigating and will update this as we know more.

[Resolved] Miami VPN gateway outage

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 01:31:28 +0000

It appears that the network routes have been restored and the gateway should be functional now.

Our Miami gateway is offline, we are investigating the cause. As we know more, we will update you.

[Resolved] etherpad service under heavy load

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:34:09 +0000

Our etherpad service is experiencing unusual heavy usage and may result in some instability for users. We are aware of the issue and working on mitigation, and will provide further updates as we are able.

[Resolved] Windows RiseupVPN users need to upgrade to connect

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:45:45 +0000

Having trouble connecting to RiseupVPN and running Windows - time to upgrade!

If you are using Windows and are unable to connect to RiseupVPN, then you need to upgrade your client.

The reason for this requirement is because a low-risk vulnerability was discovered in the Qt Installer Framework, which is used by RiseupVPN which can be triggered on RiseupVPN release previous to 0.21.11. We consider the vulnerability to be low risk, because several conditions are needed to trigger the vulnerability (original installation in a non-standard path, plus a non-privileged malicious user having access to the machine to overwrite the openvpn executable).

Thanks to researchers at Tenable for originally reporting this bug this bug.

[Resolved] Possible network issues due to DDoS

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:09:54 +0000

We and other e-mail providers have been subject to a DDoS attack disrupting our services. We received an e-mail blackmailing us: if we don’t pay, they will continue to attack us. We will not pay, we can’t accept blackmail and we will do everything possible in our hands to mitigate the effects.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is an attack aiming to make one service unavailable for others, using multiple sources for the attack makes it very complex to handle. We have taken several meassures against them, and we keep improving our systems to resist them but it’s still possible to face one that can produce a disruption in our services.

In the case this happens we want to let you know the following:

There might be problems connecting to our services. Please wait a little and try again later.
There is no risk for your data.
We will keep this website (riseupstatus.net) updated
We will be also tweeting updates @riseupnet
We will be actively working to minimize as much as possible this attack and get things back to normal as soon as possible.

[Resolved] Scheduled network outage today

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:54:02 +0000

Everything went well, thanks for your patience!

Today at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 17h UTC, there will be a temporary interruption in the network. It will affect all services, and is expected to only take approximately 10 minutes. Please plan accordingly.

During this time, you will not be able to reach many of our services, but there will be no loss of emails.

[Resolved] Scheduled network outage today

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:42:44 +0000

Due to equipment incompatibility, this work was suspended and will be rescheduled at a later time.

Today at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 17h UTC, there will be a temporary interruption in the network. It will affect all services, and is expected to only take a few minutes. Please plan accordingly.

During this time, you will not be able to reach many of our services, but there will be no loss of emails.

[Resolved] e-mail delivery interrupted

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:43:49 +0000

E-mail should be delivered as usual, we had a little problem with one of our encryption certificates.
We are currently investigating an issue with e-mail delivery. E-mail can take a little longer to be delivered.

[Resolved] Ongoing mailing list scheduled maintenance

Sun, 26 Sep 2021 17:10:27 +0000

The list service has been restored to normal operation, and the maintenance window has closed. If you experience problems, please file a help ticket

Today we are working on some necessary upgrades on the list service. This will result in disruptions to our list service.

Disruptions expected:

list mail delivery: any message you send will be queued for later delivery. Do not resend your message!
https://lists.riseup.net will show a maintenance page until completed

[Resolved] Certificates changed, some configuration changes may be necessary

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:01:42 +0000

As of today, Riseup has changed our primary certificate that we have been using since 2019.
If you were pinning a certificate fingerprint, this will no longer work.
Sometimes thunderbird gets confused and needs to be restarted!
Connecting via the onion address? Consider changing your configuration to use the non-TLS ports (port 143 for IMAP, port 110 for POP3, port 25 for SMTP) without connection security. When using onion addresses, your connection is already secure.

[Resolved] Connectivity

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:43:59 +0000

We believe the issue is fixed, but we are going to keep monitoring it closely. Thanks for your patience!
We found out problems with one of the internet providers we use generating the outage. We are still working on this issue but services should be going back to normal. We are and will be monitoring closely this issue.
We are investigating a network outage tha affects almost all of our services. We are already working on get things back to normal, please hold on a little.

[Resolved] gateway disruptions

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 19:53:01 +0000

What was originally just a Seattle gateway disruption, turned out to also be a problem with a few different gateways. The issues have been resolved, and we are seeing normal connections now.

The Seattle gateway for RiseupVPN is experiencing some issues. You will be automatically redirected to a different gateway if you try to connect to this gateway, but it may be a less optimal one. We will update this issue as we know more.

[Resolved] Planned systems maitenance ongoing

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:15:10 +0000

Everything should be working again, thanks for your patience.

Some services will be disrupted for some minutes while we perform systems maintenance. Please be patient.

[Resolved] networking issues

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 22:37:29 +0000

Upstream has removed their incorrect route, and re-established their BGP session with us, enabling us to properly announce the routes, and resolve this issue.

We have been in contact with upstream about the issues. It appears they are announcing a route for one of our networks, when they should not. They are investigating and will get back to us.

Due to networking issues upstream, one of our netblocks is currently unavailable. We are working with them to return service to normal, and hope to have things resolved soon.

[Resolved] more colo work

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:38:18 +0000

Everything is operating as expected, work finished!

Birds are working on the network at the data center, there may be brief outages for the next 2 hours.

[Resolved] colo-work

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:26:28 +0000

The scheduled work has been completed, all systems seem to be working as expected.

Due to on-going, scheduled work at one of our co-location facilities, there is a potential for some service interruptions. The expected time for completion of this work is within an hour

[Resolved] network problems

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:39:11 +0000

We tracked down the networking issues and were able to resolve them.

Network disruption impacting most services detected. We are aware of the problem and will update this event as we know more.