Known Outages

Albacore have been advised the following by HMRC. The monthly patching cycle for ASN and LUCAS Live is scheduled for Thursday 22nd October 2026, from 14:00 BST to 18:00 BST As the patching activity requires a service outage to allow the updates to be applied and the servers to be rebooted, the servers will be…

Albacore have been advised by HMRC that there will be a planned system upgrade on Thursday 22nd October 2026 from14:00 to 18:00 BST(4 hours). During this timeframe, the services normally provided by NCH will be unavailable. This includes (but is not limited to) the following: ISR/IAR Cancellations Licensing Indicator Cancellations Override for Inventory Failure Requests…

HMRC have asked us to advise you that due to scheduled maintenance, the CDS Trader Dress Rehearsal (TDR) service will be unavailable during the period; 12:00 to 16:00 Tuesday 20th October 2026 (4 hours, UK time). There will be a complete outage during this period. During this maintenance window HMRC will be refreshing the data…

Albacore have been advised that MCP will be applying security patches and performing necessary server maintenance to Destin8 in the following window: Monday, 19th October 2026 at 20:30 BST for up to 60 minutes. CDS messages submitted during this period will be queued and automatically processed once Destin8 is back up. If you require any…