In germany the month of may stands for something new, usually used for blooming flowers …

… but we don’t have any flowers at our CAcert servers, so we did something else:

We did a trip to the Datacenter in Ede, putting back the second firewall to the rack and installing brand-new OpenBSD-updates to both firewalls and Debian-updates to all our critical servers.

You may have noticed short interruptions of our CAcert services as our main web server was restarted once and both firewalls were restarted several times to apply the updates. We tried to keep this time as short as possible, but we couldn’t trick our monitoring: It was faster by sending us notification emails for a problem … followed by “recovery”-emails.