Change Block - 7th June 2023 [ENDED 18 Jun 2023 @ 11:15 AM BST]

Due to an emergent malware threat currently posing a risk to the integrity of our infrastructure, all changes to any of our minecraft community servers is now blocked with immediate effect. At the current time there will be no exceptions to the change block.

This block impacts all plugins and configurations across the servers, as well as the infrastructure powering these servers.

Block Start: 7 June 2023 14:30 UTC

Block End: Indefinite

Next Block Review Date: 7 June 2023 20:00 UTC

Further to the earlier emergent change block, we will be extending this block until 11:00 AM UTC Tomorrow when the next review will take place.

We have been able to work with the Scissors team and confirm the secure supply chain of the server binary and as a result updates to Scissors are now permitted across the network. Likewise updates to common configuration files across the network is now permitted.

Any other changes to the servers will remain blocked.

Block Start: 7 June 2023 14:30 UTC

Block End: Indefinite

Next Block Review Date: 8 June 2023 11:00 UTC

To confirm as I didn't post earlier, there has been no change since my last post. I'll review things at 10:30 utc

Further to the recent emergent change block, we will be relaxing some of the restrictions currently in place now that the threat is more fully understood.

As per the previous announcement, configuration file updates and Scissors updates were permitted to production and non production services.

With immediate effect plugins that are built by our development team may be deployed to the non production infrastructure after specific targeted malware scanning has taken place, and with the approval of both videogamesm12 and Paldiu.

These same plugins may be prompted from the Non Production Servers to the production environment no earlier than 6 hours after the plugin was uploaded to the development server, and only when the plugin to be uploaded as well as a randomly selected plugin have been checked for malware. Once these criteria are met the plugin may be promoted to the production server with the approval of only videogamesm12 or myself.

Any other changes to the servers will remain blocked.

Block Start: 7 June 2023 14:30 UTC

Block End: Indefinite

Next Block Review Date: 1 June 2023 13:00 UTC

The change restrictions have now ended.

Going forward all plugins will be required to be scanned through one of the malware detection tools as per previous requirements with evidence being shared by the developers in the internal development chat. All plugin changes will continue to require the lead developer or server owner approval to be added to production servers.

A more detailed thread will be written up in due course for the changes to how we add plugins to the server.