Hetzner incident

Migration of Image Archive Compression Format to zstd

Minor Ongoing View vendor source →

Hetzner is currently experiencing a minor incident, which began 42d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Jun 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 42d 3h
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 12, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 23, 2026, 09:22 AM UTC

    As part of our ongoing optimization efforts, we are migrating the compression format of our image archives from tar.gz to tar.zst (zstd) to significantly reduce installation times. The file extension of the archives has changed accordingly. If you are operating an automated installation environment and reusing existing installimage configurations, we kindly ask you to review the respective IMAGE parameter and update the file extension to reflect the new tar.zst format.