This article summarizes upcoming disruptive changes, including changes in default behavior and removal of functionality. Changes in default behavior can include the introduction of new features (opt-in), as well as changes in default functionality (defaulted-on, forced-off). Near the beginning of every month, there are updates to this page, on a rolling 12-month time frame, with the earliest time-frame appearing at the top of the list. When a historical change has been complete for a full calendar year, it no longer appears on the Historical Changes table.
Note: For any planned high impact removal of functionality, D2L provides at least 12 months notice. To determine the date when an update is scheduled based on the version number, you can also read the version as a year and month. For example: 20.24.11 (year= 2024, month =11/November), or 20.25.5 (year= 2025, month = 5/May).
Upcoming Changes
| Tool/Product Update |
Historical changes |
Known Future Updates |
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| Increased Groups Per Category
See the product blog: Groups Management – A refresh of the manage groups page and increased numbers of groups per category
Note: With this change, groups per category limitations will also be enforced through API routes.
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N/A
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20.26.04: Default
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| New Course Management Experience
See the product blog: Updates to Course Management
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20.25.02: ON in test environments
20.25.06: ON in all environments
20.26.02: Default in all environments (EOL of legacy Course Management)
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20.26.01: Default |
| Analytics Builder
Insights Report Builder is being transitioned to Analytics Builder.
See the product blog: Analytics Builder – Visualization Infrastructure transition
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20.23.12: Announced
20.24.4: Analytics Builder limited availability for new clients with the Performance+ package only.
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| Course Updater
With the ability to bulk update course status and start/end dates within Courses, Course Updater is becoming disabled.
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20.25.07: Released Ability to bulk update course status and start/end dates within Courses.
20.25.10: Removed the selection cap of 50 in Courses
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20.26.03: EOL Course Updater |
| Legacy Course Management Experience
See the product blog: Changes to Course Management Blog Post
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20.26.02 EOL Legacy Course Management |
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EOL of BDS Major Version 10
See the product blog: Announcing Data Hub Brightspace Data Sets (BDS) Major Version 11
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20.25.11: Announcement of upcoming version 11 release |
20.26.02: Version 11 available
20.26.06: Version 10 EOL |
Historical changes
Note: In accordance with our content retention policy, we only retain content from the current and previous calendar year. Any features that became the default setting before 2023 have been removed.
Legend
Available (OFF) - Experience/feature is off by default and can be enabled by admins. Previously listed as OFF
User Opt-Out - Experience or function is now the leading experience but customers can still revert to the legacy experience. Administrative override available if required. This setting will set the new experience by default, with users having the ability to opt-out back to the legacy experience. Previously listed as ON/User opt-in or ON/User opt-out.
ON - Experience or feature is on. Administrative override is still available. This is used to move all customers to the new experience, and users do not have the option to Opt-In or Opt-Out. Admins have the ability to override.
Default - The new experience or feature has replaced the legacy experience or feature. There is no administrative override available.
Removed - Functionality has been removed and is no longer available.
EOL - A tool or product has been removed and signifies the End of Life of the item.