There was a month break in the issue of AORs in July. It looks like applications confirmed before that (basically the January-February applicants) can see only that the app is received. The Marc-April-... applications were confirmed and took into the eCAS in a different way starting in August, so they can see that the processing started. But that has nothing to do with the actual stage of processing.
Anyway, we have good news today, someone from August just received the sponsor approval. It looks like CIC started to work again.