Ngrok incident
Users who install ngrok via the Microsoft Store encounter a fatal panic immediately on starting an endpoint.
Ngrok experienced a major incident on April 28, 2026 affecting ngrok Agent and Libraries, lasting 1h 59m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 28, 2026, 02:29 PM UTC
Users who have installed the ngrok agent via the Microsoft Store on Windows are seeing fatal panics on endpoint startup on the most recent agent version. Non Windows users and Windows users installing via other channels should not be impacted.
- identified Apr 28, 2026, 02:30 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and the engineering team is working on the fix.
- identified Apr 28, 2026, 02:44 PM UTC
We expect a new version of the agent that resolves this issue to be available within the next hour.
- monitoring Apr 28, 2026, 03:24 PM UTC
Agent version 3.39.1 has been released to all channels. Once approved by Microsoft, the new build will be available via the Microsoft Store.
- resolved Apr 28, 2026, 04:28 PM UTC
Agent version 3.39.1 is now available in the Microsoft Store.