Q-CTRL incident

Regression in authentication with Boulder Opal Toolkit client

Q-CTRL is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting Q-CTRL Boulder Opal and Q-CTRL Fire Opal, which began 6h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Jun 19, 2026, 06:11 AM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 5h 38m
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 19, 2026, 06:11 AM UTC

Affected components

Q-CTRL Boulder OpalQ-CTRL Fire Opal

Update timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.