Technical updates are updates which generally deal with improvements to servers, bugs, maintenance, or other aspects of the RuneScape systems.
Chronological list of updates[]
Technical updates are listed most recent at top. For an alphabetical list, see Category:Technical updates.
2019[]
2018[]
- 21 December – Maintenance - 3rd January 2019
- 22 November – Maintenance: 23rd November 2018
- 18 July – Short Maintenance - 18th July
- 12 July – Incoming Loginserver downtime
- 22 May – Maintenance - 23rd May
- 15 May – Maintenance - 16th May
- 8 May – Maintenance - 9th May
- 2 May – Maintenance - 2nd May
- 25 April – Maintenance: Wednesday 25th April
- 16 April – Maintenance - 18th April
2017[]
- 19 June – Maintenance - 12:00 – 14:00 Game Time, 20th June
- 29 April – Jagex Account Guardian Deactivates Soon
- 10 January – Credit Card Payments Back Online
2016[]
- 22 August – Maintenance - August 23rd, 08:00-17:00 Game Time
- 18 May – Maintenance - 09:00-10:00 UTC, 19th May
- 18 April – NXT - Load Issues - Update
2015[]
- 20 October – Maintenance - 06:00 UTC-07:00 UTC, 21st October
- 9 September – Maintenance - 06:00 - 07:00 UTC (Game Time), 10th September
- 20 August – Maintenance - 13:00-16:00 UTC, 20th August
- 5 August – Maintenance - 6th August 07:00 UTC - 08:00 UTC
- 22 July – Maintenance - 23rd July 07:00 – 09:00 UTC
- 30 June – Maintenance: Australian Servers
- 28 May – Service Disruption - Miami
- 15 April – Google Chrome – Java Support Ending
- 1 April – RuneScape YouTube – Technical Issue
- 9 February – Network Issues - Update
- 18 January – Service Disruption (2015)
2014[]
- 27 August – RuneScape Companion – Now on App Store & Google Play
- 19 August – Service Disruption
- 6 August – Maintenance - 7th August, 8.30-11.30am BST
- 5 August – Display Name Technical Issues
- 8 July – Planned Maintenance (8 July 2014)
- 28 May – Service Disruption – Frankfurt Services
- 21 April – Scheduled Maintenance
- 1 April – Technical Glitches - April Fools' Day
- 18 March – Maintenance
- 13 February – Planned Maintenance – Friday Morning
- 11 February – Planned Maintenance – Wednesday and Thursday Morning
2013[]
- 31 December – Technical Issue - Email (31 December 2013)
- 6 November – Update on Service Disruptions
- 30 October – Planned Maintenance - Thursday 31st, 8-9am GMT
- 16 October – Login Issues for Australian Players
- 30 September – Planned Maintenance: Completed
- 18 July – Scheduled Maintenance 19th – 23rd July
- 16 July – Scheduled Maintenance 8:00 AM BST Wednesday
- 1 March – Display Mode Changes: Coming Next Week
2012[]
- 7 December – Website Maintenance (7 December 2012)
- 7 September – Java Certificate Update (2012)
- 18 August – Email Maintenance
- 11 June – Planned Maintenance (11 June 2012)
- 13 April – Enabling RuneScape Access in Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7
- 29 February – Maintenance – 1st of March, 10am (GMT)
2011[]
- 22 November – Anti-Gold-Farming Measures
- 17 November – Log-in and Frame-rate Issues: Poll
- 4 November – Log-in and Frame-rate Issues: Update
- 2 November – Re-organisation of RuneScape Game Worlds
- 21 October – Infrastructure Maintenance
- 21 October – Change to Required Java Version
- 19 October – Upcoming Maintenance
- 9 August – Server maintenance
- 3 August – Server maintenance (August 2011)
- 30 June – Technical Issue - Email (30 June 2011)
- 11 May – Authentication Server Maintenance
- 17 April – Clan Hiscore Maintenance
- 11 April – Recent Game Outages
- 5 April – System Maintenance
- 29 March – Billing System Maintenance (29 March 2011)
- 17 March – Billing System Maintenance (March 2011)
- 15 March – Billing System Maintenance (15 March 2011)
2010[]
- 24 November – Website Maintenance (24 November 2010)
- 5 October – Network Connection Issues for American Players
- 7 September – Java Certificate Update
- 3 August – Adventurer's Log Maintenance (Update)
- 26 July – Adventurer's Log Maintenance
- 11 June – Out Now: the FREE Jagex News iPhone App
- 14 April – Temporary Server Shutdown/Rollback
- 3 March – Scheduled Downtime with Next System Update
- 12 January – Game worlds moving
2009[]
- 29 December – Credit Card Payments Offline
- 19 November – Forums Currently Offline
- 11 November – Send Us Your Specs 2009
- 4 November – Website Maintenance (4 November 2009)
- 2 November – Potential Downtime
- 30 October – Systems Moving...
- 29 October – Website Maintenance (29 October 2009)
- 27 October – Core game system hosting move (October 2009)
- 13 October – Website Maintenance (13 October 2009)
- 7 October – Some European Worlds Moving
- 21 September – Friends and Clan Chat Rollback
- 21 September – Core game system hosting move (September 2009)
- 18 September – Game Worlds Moving...
- 16 September – Website Maintenance (16 September 2009)
- 17 July – Worlds still down
- 16 June – European Worlds Temporarily Unavailable
- 12 June – Friends list unavailable for some users
- 11 May – Offence System maintenance
- 6 April – Windows downloadable client
- 30 March – Problems with billing systems
- 17 March – Game Worlds Unavailable
- 27 February – Temporary Closure of the Bounty Hunter Craters
2008[]
- 11 November – Website Maintenance (11 November 2008)
- 8 August – 22 New RuneScape Worlds
- 15 July – Website Maintenance (15 July 2008)
- 1 July – Website Maintenance (1 July 2008)
- 1 July – Technical Problems
- 8 May – Send us your Specs! - Reminder
- 6 May – Send us your Specs!
- 9 February – Music system temporarily off
- 30 January – Re-skin of Website Features
- 30 January – Login Changes to the Website
2007[]
- 26 November – Grand Exchange temp offline
- 19 November – Core Network Maintenance
- 19 November – Billing System Update
- 19 November – Account Recovery Maintenance
- 16 November – New Billing System
- 20 August – Billing System Maintenance
- 9 August – Website Maintenance (9 August 2007)
2006[]
- 20 November – Game-world locations renamed
- 30 October – Login temporarily unavailable
- 30 October – Bugtracker Maintenance
- 22 August – Naming conventions
- 27 June – Tweaks and Bugfixes
- 2 June – 11 new worlds online
- 27 March – 5 new worlds in Stockholm, Sweden
- 15 February – Friend system upgrades
- 6 February – 4 new worlds now online
2005[]
- 28 December – 6 new Australian servers online!
- 30 November – 8 new worlds in Miami
- 6 June – Website Maintenance (6 June 2005)
- 17 May – Moving Worlds
- 26 April – New London servers
- 1 March – Friendlist server upgraded
- 1 March – Bug in Guthix Rest Tea
- 8 February – New St Louis worlds online
- 23 January – New Seattle worlds online
2004[]
- 21 December – New Chicago game worlds
- 3 December – Even more worlds online!
- 24 November – Amsterdam servers online!
- 15 October – Monster magic defence bugfix
- 14 October – 4 new Dallas worlds added
- 7 September – 4 new Atlanta worlds added
- 4 September – Uk servers outage (fixed)
- 24 August – Friendserver load fixed
- 12 August – More bandwidth
- 3 August – CET servers moved
- 25 June – 3 more game worlds online!
- 16 June – Login Server Down (Fixed)
- 7 June – Two new members worlds online
- 1 June – Regarding Lag
- 14 May – World 17 under repair
- 22 April – Completion of systems upgrade
- 15 April – Systems upgrade
- 26 March – RS2 now has much less lag
- 24 March – Number of beta servers reduced
- 25 February – Login Server Downtime (fixed)
- 28 January – Maintenance Continues
- 28 January – Essential Maintenance
2003[]
- 23 December – New RS1 game worlds online
- 11 October – Essential maintenance
- 8 September – Toronto Game Worlds Live
- 25 August – Singapore server relocated
- 25 August – SF servers back online
- 20 August – San Francisco Servers
- 28 July – Chat filter problems fixed
- 10 July – Digsite quest fixed
- 29 May – New server for Australasia
- 20 May – Secure Server Maintenance
- 24 April – New York Server Moved
- 15 April – Read if the update doesnt work
- 24 March – Performance Improvements
- 3 February – Apologies
- 30 January – Bandwidth tripled!
2002[]
- 23 December – San-Francisco servers online
- 11 November – Upgraded Philadelphia servers
- 6 November – Bug in Varrock
- 19 July – Faster server
- 18 July – No rest for the wicked...
- 10 July – Bug squashing
References[]
- RuneScape Latest News - Technical Updates
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