Scheduled
Announcing a service release of the Cirrus platform containing the following bug fixes and minor improvements on the following hostings: EU, CA, SG and AU.
Improvements
- Authoring: Added a search to the Add blueprint dialog in the Extended and Simplified views (CR-26107)
- Authoring: Added settings to keep Extended Match choices and matches in a fixed order (CR-26250)
- NEO: Added the enlarge option to all item types (CR-26134)
- Security: Improved protection of the platform against requests from other websites (CR-26077)
Bugfixes
- Candidate delivery: Fixed an issue where ReadSpeaker did not highlight the question while it was reading (CR-26181)
- Candidate delivery: Fixed an issue where candidates could not unmute audio when pausing and rewinding were disabled, in Chrome, Edge and Safe Exam Browser (CR-26241)
- Office 365: Fixed an issue where no error appeared when a File Response template was larger than 4 MB (CR-26220)
- Preview: Fixed an issue where an anonymous preview failed when its external ID was previously used by another assessment (CR-26265)
For more details please visit the Cirrus Release Notes page.
Time of release per hosted region:
EU: 06:00 CEST (04:00 UTC)
CA: 00:00 EDT (04:00 UTC)
SG: 21:00 SGT (13:00 UTC)
AU: 00:00 AEDT (13:00 UTC)
Posted Oct 02, 2026 - 14:01 CEST
This scheduled maintenance affects: EU Assessment Management (Dublin) (Scheduling (EU), Marking (EU), Authoring - Library/Assessments (EU), Administration (EU), Auxiliary - Services (EU)), EU Candidate Delivery (Dublin) (Candidate Delivery incl Proctoring API (EU), Single Sign-On SAML 2.0 / LTI (EU), Invigilation (EU)), AU Candidate Delivery (Sydney) (Candidate Delivery incl Proctoring API (AU), Single Sign-On SAML 2.0 / LTI (AU), Invigilation (AU)), AU Assessment Management (Sydney) (Scheduling (AU), Marking (AU), Authoring - Library/Assessments (AU), Administration (AU), Auxiliary - Services (AU)), SG Candidate Delivery (Singapore) (Candidate Delivery incl Proctoring API (SG), Single Sign-On SAML 2.0 / LTI (SG), Invigilation (SG)), SG Assessment Management (Singapore) (Scheduling (SG), Marking (SG), Authoring - Library/Assessments (SG), Administration (SG), Auxiliary - Services (SG)), CA Candidate Delivery (Montreal) (Candidate Delivery incl Proctoring API (CA), Single Sign-On SAML 2.0 / LTI (CA), Invigilation (CA)), and CA Assessment Management (Montreal) (Scheduling (CA), Marking (CA), Authoring - Library/Assessments (CA), Administration (CA), Auxiliary - Services (CA)).