Q-CTRL incident
Regression in authentication with Boulder Opal Toolkit client
Q-CTRL experienced a minor incident on June 19, 2026 affecting Q-CTRL Boulder Opal and Q-CTRL Fire Opal, lasting 2d 16h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jun 19, 2026, 06:11 AM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue with the Boulder Opal Toolkit client package which is affecting authentication.
- identified Jun 19, 2026, 06:28 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and is being investigated further. If you are encountering errors authenticating the Boulder Opal Toolkit or Fire Opal Client please clear locally cached authentication tokens in `~/.config/qctrl` and try again.
- identified Jun 19, 2026, 06:29 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue. If you are encountering errors authenticating the Boulder Opal Toolkit or Fire Opal Client please clear locally cached authentication tokens in `~/.config/qctrl` and try again.
- resolved Jun 21, 2026, 11:08 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.