TOPdesk experienced a minor incident on January 20, 2026 affecting Functionality malfunction, lasting 6h 17m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jan 20, 2026, 09:58 AM UTC
We are currently experiencing disruptions with one of our services. As a result, some or all of the knowledge items in the operator section won't display your written content but .json code. The SSP view seems to be not affected. Only early update groups are impacted. We are aware of the problem and are working on a solution. As a workaround, switching temporarily to the old knowledge base shows the content again. Please stay away from editing and saving knowledge items until the issue is resolved. Our apologies for the inconvenience. At the time of writing this, we are not able to give you an estimate on when your environment will be available. The next update will be provided as events warrant until the issue has been resolved. E-mail updates will be sent right away when the issue has been resolved. You can subscribe on the status page (https://status.topdesk.com) for additional updates. To inform TOPdesk you are affected by this issue, please visit https://my.topdesk.com/tas/public/ssp/ . Please refer to incident TDR26 01 5257.
- investigating Jan 20, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC
We are still experiencing disruptions with one of our services. As a result, some or all of the knowledge items in the operator section won't display your written content but .json code. The SSP view seems to be not affected. Only early update groups are impacted. We will applied fixes to test environments of the early update groups and the applied fixes showed the desired result. To apply these fixes in your production environment, a restart is needed. The restarts will happen after 13:00 CET today. The estimated downtime for each environment is about 5 minutes. As a result of this fix the new knowledge base will be deactivated temporarily and can't be turned on until the underlying issue is resolved. We are also working on a permanent solution for this issue. Please stay away from editing and saving knowledge items until the issue is resolved. Our apologies for the inconvenience. The current status can be found on our TOPdesk Status Page: https://status.topdesk.com
- resolved Jan 20, 2026, 04:16 PM UTC
The major incident has been resolved. For the early update groups, both test and production environments, fixes have been applied and the knowledge base functionality has been restored. That being said, the underlying issue will be resolved in an upcoming TOPdesk version update in the near future. To guarantee stability, the fix won't be applied today; the knowledge base can be used, as you are used to, from now on again. If a rich-text field of a knowledge item was edited edited during the lifetime of this major, from the impacted usergroup, the edited content can't be recovered, even if the final fix is applied. Thank you for your patience.