doxy.me experienced a minor incident on January 10, 2023 affecting Doxy.me webpages, lasting 21h 37m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 10, 2023, 03:21 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue where older versions of web browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) are not allowing doxy.me to load. Updating your browser to the latest version will allow doxy.me to load. Browsers able to load doxy.me: Safari 15.4 and newer Chrome 93 and newer Firefox 92 and newer Edge 93 and newer If you or your client is impacted at this time, our help article will help guide you to update.
- identified Jan 10, 2023, 05:39 PM UTC
We have determined the root cause for this incident and are currently testing a fix. At this time, we expect the fix to be deployed early tomorrow, between 3:00am and 7:00am EST (between 08:00 and 12:00 UTC).
- resolved Jan 11, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC
We have deployed a fix restoring functionality to the out of date browsers. We recommend keeping your devices and browsers up to date in general, but do apologize for any disruption this incident may have caused. We will share the post mortem within the next few business days.
- postmortem Jan 13, 2023, 06:40 PM UTC
**Summary of event:** On January 10th, an update caused out-of-date browsers to not load [doxy.me](http://doxy.me/). **Business Impacts:** Patients or providers using the impacted browsers were unable to access [doxy.me](http://doxy.me/). **Root cause:** One of the software packages used in our code was updated on January 10th, 2023 at 08:20 AM UTC. The updated version was incompatible with and no longer supported older browser versions, including any versions older than the following: * Chrome: 93 \(released August 31st, 2021\) * Firefox: 92 \(released September 7th, 2021\) * Safari: 15.4 \(released March 15th, 2022\) * Edge: 93 \(released August 3rd, 2021\) **How was the issue resolved:** [Doxy.me](http://doxy.me/) released a fix that reverted the update to the software packages on January 11th, at 8:03 AM UTC. **Preventative next steps:** We will be updating our internal system requirements and our supported browser policies. Once approved, we will increase our communication efforts with our customers to make it easier for them to recognize when they are using an out-of-date browser and how to update it. We will also shore up our testing coverage to better detect these problems in advance. Thank you for your patience.