Instructure publishes Canvas Release Notes and Deploy Notes to the Canvas Community website on a regular basis. Release Notes for Canvas Studio, Canvas Commons, Canvas Credentials (Badges), and the Canvas mobile apps are published on a more irregular basis. Links for those Release Notes can be found at the bottom of this page under Additional Resources.
- Canvas Release Notes are typically published on the third Wednesday of every month and contain new and updated features to the core Canvas LMS (Learning Management System). New features and updates listed in Release Notes are pushed to Canvas on third Saturday of the month. The date listed in the title of a Release Notes document indicates when items in it will be pushed out to Canvas.
- Example: Canvas Release Notes (2024-11-16) were published to the Canvas Community on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. New features and updates in these Release Notes were pushed to Canvas on Saturday, November 16, 2024.
- Canvas Deploy Notes are more frequent…the second and fourth Friday of every month. They include code changes aimed at bug fixes, performance enhancements, and preparations for new features, in addition to minor updates in the user interface. The date listed in the title of a Deploy Notes document indicates when items in it will be pushed out to Canvas.
- Example: Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-11-06) were published to the Canvas Community on Friday, October 25, 2024. Code changes in these Deploy Notes were pushed to Canvas on Wednesday, November 6, 2024.
Canvas administrators and instructors have the opportunity to try out new features and updates before Instructure pushes them out to your course(s). Review Canvas “Test” and “Beta” Environments for more information on how this works.