We have successfully released Platform Version 9 into the live environment this evening. The release went smoothly with no problems and was completed between 18:00GMT and 18:22GMT. The outage also included a complete restart of the metadata store to include some performance tuning modifications.

Release notes for version 9 can be found here

If you have any issues or problems please do not hesitate to contact us through one of the usual channels.

The next monthly release of the Platform is scheduled for Monday, 25th February 2008. We are planning to perform the release between 18:00GMT and 19:00GMT.

Release notes can be found on the wiki along with the full release schedule for future releases. This release sees the addition of customisable language analysis for indexed metadata

In addition to the regular release, we plan to take the opportunity to carry out some tuning on some of the underlying Platform services. Unfortunately, this will require some downtime, so all platform services will be offline for a short period of time between 18:00GMT and 19:00GMT.