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Hello barkrs and woofrs,

It is now 2026! You will notice a shiny new 2026 copy-left symbol at the
bottom of the webpage. Happy new year, and I hope this year is better
than the last for you! And we must continue the fight against oppression
and inequality.

With that out of the way, there is maintenance scheduled Sunday (see
previous announcement "New Maintenance Schedule"), but since I aim to
upgrade the system to FreeBSD 15.0 and migrate from nslcd to sssd, I
will need to start operations on Saturday. Please be aware of
intermittent service outage Saturday and Sunday!

awrawwrf,

~ Citlali

Hello woofers,

To alleviate some performance snags with the Forgejo instance, I have
removed an intermediary proxy between git.unix.dog and the Forgejo jail
that runs on `bark`.

What this means: git.unix.dog now only points to the web frontend.
Impact: Old SSH clone URLs in the form of git@git.unix.dog are invalid
and will either not work or throw an SSH key change error.
Note the SSH key is now the same as bark.unix.dog.

Fix: Change your clone URLs to git@unix.dog.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I hope this fixes some performance
issues with the frontend (especially on v4).

Hello woofers,

Happy 2025! I have not made an announcement since 2024! And we're more
than halfway finished with this year! Sorry about that.

To keep the server well-oiled, I will be moving UNIX.dog to a more
consistent and planned maintenance schedule:

**Maintenance will occur on the first Sunday of every month.** Timing
may vary depending on how long I need to update and prepare the
components and any fixes required. There may be intermittent downtime
during the hours of 12:00-20:00 US/Pacific, but I aim to keep it low.

With that being said, that puts the maintenance window for August on: 
2025-08-03T12:00-07:00, or 2025-08-03T19:00Z. That's August 3rd, 12:00
PDT.

Happy barking!

~ Citlali

Hi barkers,

The migration to the new HostHatch FreeBSD server has gone well!
There is some local userland software missing that I will have to
reinstall as required, but the services are running a lot smoother.

The new Sharkey instance is also running, and it has been a lot more
performant than Akkoma. I have migrated the Akkoma instance away from
woofer.unix.dog to a private server, and it will be turned read-only
soon. Please gather your data backup if you haven't.

Finally, I need to update the jails and host systems on bark.unix.dog and
howl.unix.dog. Next weekend, January 4th 2025, at 16:00 PST (GMT-8)
there will be a downtime of the host systems for a few minutes, and then
intermittent downtime on the services for an hour or two while I update
the jails.

TL;DR Downtime 2025-01-05T00:00Z for an hour or two, for maintenance.

Happy woofing!
~ Citlali

Hi woofers,

First all, there is a new Sharkey instance at https://sk.unix.dog.

I'm sorry to announce that the Akkoma instance will become read-only
in 3 months. The database has become rotted and the server software
is not performant, and the user experience has dropped dramatically.

To replace it, I've set up a Sharkey instance, which is a Misskey fork.
It does not connect to LDAP, so you need to sign up for it separately.
Sharkey supports Mastodon API clients as well, which offsets the bulky web UI.
It's also made by sharks! :3

This instance is already running on the new server and should be more
performant due to Misskey's battle-tested database schema and heavy
Redis usage.

TL;DR: **Akkoma will be read-only in 3mo. Switch to Sharkey at
https://sk.unix.dog. You have to register separately on the instance!**

Message the UNIX.dog discussion XMPP room if you need help,
or reach out directly to me.

Happy barking,
~ Citlali