On March 19, 2025, the ACCESS User Registry will experience a total outage for approximately 10-15 minutes. During this time, the database used by the ACCESS User Registry will be reconfigured to use "utf8mb4" as the character encoding for several user attributes such as name and organization. This update is necessary to correctly display non-Latin characters.

During the outage, visitors to https://registry.access-ci.org/ will be redirected to this infrastructure news notice. Users will not be able to register for ACCESS accounts, make changes to their existing ACCESS accounts, or create/modify OIDC client registrations. 

Logging on to other ACCESS websites should not be affected.

For questions or concerns with this update, please contact help@cilogon.org or open an ACCESS Help Ticket.