diff --git a/AlphaFold2.ipynb b/AlphaFold2.ipynb
index 4b3df70b..4b9f5757 100644
--- a/AlphaFold2.ipynb
+++ b/AlphaFold2.ipynb
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
         "-----------\n",
         "\n",
         "### News\n",
+        "- <b><font color='red'>2023/07/27: ColabFold MSA server issue: We are using the backup server with old databases (UniRef30 2202/PDB70 220313) starting from ~8:30 AM CEST until we resolve the issue.</font></b>\n",
         "- <b><font color='green'>2023/06/12: New databases! UniRef30 updated to 2023_02 and PDB to 230517. We now use PDB100 instead of PDB70 (see [notes](#pdb100)).</font></b>\n",
         "- <b><font color='green'>2023/06/12: We introduced a new default pairing strategy: Previously, for multimer predictions with more than 2 chains, we only pair if all sequences taxonomically match (\"complete\" pairing). The new default \"greedy\" strategy pairs any taxonomically matching subsets.</font></b>"
       ]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ad3313d3..68c694a5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # ColabFold - v1.5.2
 
 ```diff
+- 27Jul2023: ColabFold MSA server issue:
+-            We are using the backup server with old databases
+-            (UniRef30 2202/PDB70 220313) starting from ~8:30 AM CEST until we resolve the issue.
 + 12Jun2023: New databases! UniRef30 updated to 2302 and PDB to 230517.
 +            We now use PDB100 instead of PDB70 (see notes in the [main](https://colabfold.com) notebook).
 + 12Jun2023: We introduced a new default pairing strategy:
diff --git a/batch/AlphaFold2_batch.ipynb b/batch/AlphaFold2_batch.ipynb
index a3df707f..2fd782b5 100644
--- a/batch/AlphaFold2_batch.ipynb
+++ b/batch/AlphaFold2_batch.ipynb
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
         "-----------\n",
         "\n",
         "### News\n",
+        "- <b><font color='red'>2023/07/27: ColabFold MSA server issue: We are using the backup server with old databases (UniRef30 2202/PDB70 220313) starting from ~8:30 AM CEST until we resolve the issue.</font></b>\n",
         "- <b><font color='green'>2023/06/12: New databases! UniRef30 updated to 2023_02 and PDB to 230517. We now use PDB100 instead of PDB70 (see notes in the [main](https://colabfold.com) notebook).</font></b>\n",
         "- <b><font color='green'>2023/06/12: We introduced a new default pairing strategy: Previously, for multimer predictions with more than 2 chains, we only pair if all sequences taxonomically match (\"complete\" pairing). The new default \"greedy\" strategy pairs any taxonomically matching subsets.</font></b>"
       ]