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
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Historical changes |
Known Future Updates |
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| New Course Management Experience
See the product blog: Updates to Course Management
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20.25.02: ON (test environments only)
20.25.06: Default (all environments)
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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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TBA: General Availability
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| Brightspace Data Set: EOL of Brightspace Data Set Major Version 9 and availability of Brightspace Data Set Major Version 10 See the product blogs:
Motivations behind the changes in Data Hub Brightspace Data Set (BDS) Major Version 10 |
20.25.02: Announcement of upcoming version 10 release
20.25.04: Version 10 available
20.25.08: Version 9 EOL
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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.
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Historical changes |
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Increased Enrollment Limits for Groups
Groups - Improving Groups with Increased enrollments Limits Blog Post
Note: With this change, enrollment limitations into groups will also be enforced through API routes and Bulk User Management.
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20.25.08 Default |
| Browsers: New minimum supported version Note: Minimum supported versions are updated every January and July. See more information: Browser Support |
20.24.7, 20.25.1, 20.25.7 |
| “Learning Outcomes - Programs” renamed to “Learning Outcomes - Outcome Sets”
See the product blog: Renaming Programs to Outcome Sets
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20.25.07: Default |
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New Quiz Evaluation Experience
See the product blog: Release of the New Quiz Evaluation Experience
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20.24.9: Available (OFF)
20.25.03: Support for all question types
20.25.04: ON (Overridable)
20.25.07: Default
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Insights Report Builder: Updates for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 9
See the product blog: Updating Insights Report Builder for Brightspace Data Set Major Version 9
Note: D2L recommends that you update existing data assets within Analytics Builder as soon as possible within the Brightspace Data Set major version 9.
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20.23.10: Announced
20.23.12: Available (OFF)
20.24.4: Default (ON)
20.24.7: Version 8 removed from Insights Reports Builder
20.24.10: Announcement of upcoming version 10 release
20.25.04: Version 10 available
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Hosted Homepage Widget Expansion Pack: Intent to End of Life
See the product blog: Intent to End of Life Notice: Hosted Homepage Widget Expansion Pack
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20.23.06: Automated Custom Hosted Widget Replacement Service in Prod environments
20.23.04: Automated Custom Hosted Widget Replacement Service in non-Prod environments
20.23.07 Announced
20.23.12 In-Widget Messaging
20.24.12: EOL
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| Final Grade Audit Log page
See the product blog: Intent to EOL the 'Final Grade Audit Log' page
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20.24.6 Announced
20.24.10: EOL
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Advanced Assessment: Advanced Assessment in Assignments is available in test, development, and staging environments of Brightspace.
See the product blog:
Advanced Assessment for Assignments in test, development, and staging environments of Brightspace.
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20.24.5: Available (ON - Not Configurable) in test, development, and staging environments.
20.24.8: Available (ON - Not Configurable) in production environments
20.24.10: Available (default to ON, customer configurable)
20.24.11: Enabled for all customers who opted out. Visibility is controlled by the configuration variable released in October 2024.
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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.