Crossref incident

Content Registration Outage and Instability

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Crossref experienced a notice incident on October 16, 2026 affecting Admin tool and Web deposit form and 1 more component, lasting 2d 22h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 16, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 19, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC
Duration
2d 22h
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 16, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC

Affected components

Admin toolWeb deposit formNew Metadata Manager

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Oct 16, 2026, 09:35 PM UTC

    The metadata deposit and query processing queue was down for roughly 30 minutes starting around 20:40 UTC. It was brought back online around 21:10 UTC. We are monitoring for any possible ongoing instability.

  2. resolved Oct 19, 2026, 08:20 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.