Technical updates

Technical updates are updates which generally deal with improvements to servers, or maintenance. The Old School RuneScape development team have typically favour website updates in most cases, however on occasion use this category.

Chronological list of updates

Technical updates are listed in reverse chronological order. For an alphabetical list, see Category:Technical updates.

2023

• 19 January – Jagex Accounts - Closed Beta

2022

There were no technical updates for 2022.

2021

• 6 December – Game Maintenance - Tuesday, December 7th
• 25 March – Game Maintenance - Thursday, March 25th

2020

• 17 February – Server Maintenance on February 19th
• 1 January – Server Update Info

2019

• 20 December – Mobile Connectivity Issues
• 18 December – Server Maintenance Announcement
• 12 September – Planned Maintenance - UK Servers

2007

• 9 August – Website Maintenance

2006

• 20 November – Game-world locations renamed
• 30 October – Login temporarily unavailable
• 30 October – Bugtracker Maintenance
• 22 August – Naming conventions
• 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
• 22 March – Latest RuneScape News (22 March 2002)
• 21 March – Latest RuneScape News (19 March 2002)
• 31 January – Latest RuneScape News (31 January 2002)
• 10 January – Compression

2001

• 20 November – Latest RuneScape News (20 November 2001)
• 20 June – New password recovery system
• 27 May – Sorry for recent server problems
• 25 May – 4th Runescape server online
• 24 May – 4th RuneScape server ordered
• 9 May – 3rd runescape server online
• 5 May – 3rd Runescape server on the way
• 13 April – Server status page, my-friends, and password recovery pages
• 10 April – Server fixed + message boards online
• 7 April – Server problems
• 10 March – Second server online
• 7 February – RuneScape now works on NetScape 6