⚖️🚀 Scalable server in production

We had planned to deploy the complete rewrite of our server focused on scalability at the start of April at the earliest. However an new influx of users pushed cryptpad.fr beyond a threshold (see "Mexican education program"). This made an already bad situation worse and the flagship instance became basically unusable on a daily basis when timezones in Europe and the Americas overlap.

The team made the decision to deploy the new code that had already been extensively tested, taking the chance a few weeks earlier than planned. We deployed on March 4th and had a few adjustments days following that. Since then we are happy to report that the flaship seems to be running much better, providing a smoother and more reliable experience for all users of cryptpad.fr.

We will continue to refine and test the new scalable server towards full documentation and open-source release in the next few weeks/months as we complete our NLNet funded project for this work.

❄️ 🩹🩹 Winter fix releases

This month we had two rounds of bug fixes to the 2026 Winter Release. The first one 2026.2.1 had important fixes for office documents, security, and other areas. However we made a mistake in the numbering of that version, so we made 2026.2.2 with an additional fix to history in office apps and the right number. Since these releases contain security fixes we encourage all administrators to upgrade their instances as soon as possible.

👋 Mathilde leaving the team

We are sad to officially announce that Mathilde has left the team after 3.5 years. This has been effective for a few weeks but stuck in French administrative limbo which is now over. The whole team joins in thanking Mathilde for the huge contributions she has made to CryptPad in these years. From support to community, infrastructure, documentation, forum, Mathilde was a key part of the team and her presence will be missed. We respect her choice and wish her the very best in future projects.

📼 April lightning talk presentation [FR]

Our very own Fabrice gave a lightning talk presentation at French free software organisation April which CryptPad is a member of.

📺 Webinar

David will present CryptPad and answer any questions you may have in an online webinar on April 28th at 4pm CEST, please register if you plan to attend!

🎓 Mexican education program

We were delighted to learn that The Mexican government includes CryptPad in its programme for digital culture aimed at high school students. We also noticed a couple of instructional videos: CryptPad: Simultaneous Documents / Digital Culture II and Cómo se diseñó la planeación de Cultura Digital II.

As mentioned above, this was the influx of users that pushed our flagship instance over the edge. But this is because it was already beyond capacity, and an educational drive for high school students could not have been a better challenge for us to rise to.

🔭 Next up

• We have been delayed by the server deployment and bugfix releases. Work is well under way for the Spring Release that we'll be finalising in the next few weeks.
• Moreover, we are happy to inform you that Fabrice will present CryptPad in Lyon (France) at Journées du Logiciel Libre at the end of May (in French). We will give you more information next time!