Incident · Apr 21, 2026

Relay directory published late

A software fault in the signing service delayed three hourly directories. Clients kept using the previous directory, and delivery was not affected.

What happened

The relay directory is published every hour and signed by at least five of nine independent signers. On April 21 a fault in the signing service stopped three consecutive directories from collecting enough signatures. Clients are designed to keep using a directory for up to twenty-four hours, so nobody noticed except the people who watch for exactly this.