Blackboard incident

Blackboard Issues with 4000.15.0 Release

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Blackboard experienced a notice incident on May 7, 2026 affecting Blackboard - SaaS (Africa) and Blackboard - SaaS (US) and 1 more component, lasting 3d 21h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 07, 2026, 04:13 PM UTC
Resolved
May 11, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC
Duration
3d 21h
Detected by Pingoru
May 07, 2026, 04:13 PM UTC

Affected components

Blackboard - SaaS (Africa)Blackboard - SaaS (US)Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi)Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific)Blackboard - SaaS (Europe)Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US)

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 07, 2026, 04:13 PM UTC

    We are investigating a number of issues reported with the 4000.15.0 release to production environments. Multiple teams are working on this and we will provide more information as it becomes available.

  2. investigating May 07, 2026, 07:11 PM UTC

    As we investigate an issue related to Release Conditions, the release of 4000.15.0 will be paused until this issue can be resolved, so the US East release is now on hold. Once resolved all sites will be updated with the fix.

  3. identified May 08, 2026, 02:40 AM UTC

    We have identified the root cause of the issue related to Release Conditions. The team is working on a fix that will be released as soon as possible. In the meantime, we have updated production instances for customers that have opened a support ticket.

  4. identified May 08, 2026, 09:28 AM UTC

    The engineering team is actively working on a resolution for the Release condition issue. As a temporary workaround until the fix is available, please remove any assessment access exceptions configured in the Gradebook (for example, custom start/end dates assigned to individual students). Once the exceptions are removed, the assessment will appear correctly in the student view. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we work toward a permanent resolution.

  5. identified May 10, 2026, 08:49 AM UTC

    Resolved Update - The engineering team has completed the fix for the Release Conditions issue identified in version 4000.15.0. Deployment of the fix to production environments is currently in progress and will continue across all the sites. Once the deployment is completed, the issue related to assessment visibility and Release Conditions will be fully resolved. The team will continue to closely monitor the environments following the deployment to ensure platform stability and expected behavior. We appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this process.

  6. resolved May 11, 2026, 01:42 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.