CDS Maintenance CANCELLED / CDS Release 4.0.1 announced

13 Apr 2023

Planned maintenance this weekend - CANCELLED

We recently wrote to you advising that due to scheduled maintenance on the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), the service will be unavailable on Saturday 15 April 2023, 9:30pm to 11:30pm.

This maintenance activity has now been cancelled so CDS will be available as normal on Saturday 15 April 2023.

Release 4.0.1

CDS release 4.0.1 is due to go ahead as planned on 29 April 2023. This will mean that CDS will be unavailable between 9.30pm and Midnight (00.00am).

Declarations submitted during this timeframe will be processed at the end of the downtime.

Creating, updating, or embarking a goods movement reference (GMR) during this time will be affected.  For guidance on GVMS please refer to the GVMS service availability and issues page.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-for-the-goods-vehicle-movement-service-service-availability-and-issues/register-for-the-goods-vehicle-movement-service-service-availability-and-issues

HMRC apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.