Product Updates

Routine Maintenance and Release Schedule

Our team is committed to ensuring a seamless experience for our users. As part of this, we conduct routine maintenance and software releases on Tuesdays at 3:00 PM CET – 2:00 PM GMT

What You Need to Know:

  • Purpose: Maintenance ensures optimal performance, enhances security, resolves issues, and introduces new features or improvements when necessary.
  • Minimal Impact: Our operations are typically short, with no downtime in most cases and no significant impact on user activities.

We value transparency and will provide advance notice for updates that may have a noticeable effect on user experience. For major changes, you can refer to our release notes below.  For questions, feel free to contact our support team.

Release notes

Open Badge Factory

April 15th, 2025

      • ### Improvements: Milestone badges (allow multiple badge selection), Adding download PDF certificate from back-office, Replace the acceptance link by an acceptance button in the badge reception email.
      • ### Minor fixes on badge applications counter
  • February 4th, 2025

    • ### New: Sub-organization banner is now displayed on badge applications

    December 3rd, 2024

    • ### New: User manual now accessible from OBF with a dedicated widget
    • ### Improvements: Branding, increase maximum width of banners to 1600px
    • ### Minor fixes on PDF certificates

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    Open Badge Passport

    April 8th, 2025

    • ### Improvements:
      In OBP
           – Notifications
           – Sorting badges
       In Spaces
           – Badge applications
           – Comments

    • ### Minor fixes in Profile image display and external endorsement (OBP) / in User import file (Spaces)

    March 11th, 2025

    • ### Improvements:
      Multiple features improvements in Spaces
           – Bulk user import
           – Stats and reports
           – Invite links for groups
           – Objective description
           – Picture format in external endorsement

    • ### Minor fixes in PDF Export and Weekly reports

    January 28th, 2025

    • ### Improvements:
      Multiple features improvements in Spaces
      Allow recipients to add text as evidence to a badge

    • ### Minor fixes in user Profile section and Spaces

    January 7th, 2025

    • ### Improvements:
      Widget support available in Open Badge Passport
      Multiple features Improvements in spaces

    December 3rd, 2024

    • ### Improvements:
      French badges : recipient “endossement” renamed into “Recommandation”
      Multiple features Improvements in spaces

    • ### fixes
      SPACES – Refreshing badge applications issue

    Information:
    We inform you that a scheduled release of Open Badge Factory will occur on the 15th of April at 2PM GMT.
    During this time, our platform may experience a brief interruption of max 30', but no significant impact is expected.

    Nous vous informons qu'une mise à jour programmée d'Open Badge Factory aura lieu le 15 avril à 15h heure Paris.
    Notre plateforme pourra connaître une brève interruption (max 30 min), mais aucun impact significatif n'est prévu.

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