VPN concentrator rolling updates overnight

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UpdateSeptember 30, 2025 at 7:00 AMUTC
Maintenance has completed successfully
CompletedSeptember 30, 2025 at 6:00 AMUTC
Networking will be patching the VPN concentrators overnight. This will be done in a rolling order so that one ore more are always online.

This may cause active VPN connections to drop, but they can be re-connected shortly after. ETA is one hour total.
PlannedSeptember 30, 2025 at 6:00 AMUTC
Networking will be patching the VPN concentrators overnight. This will be done in a rolling order so that one ore more are always online.

This may cause active VPN connections to drop, but they can be re-connected shortly after. ETA is one hour total.

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