How we curate this page
ITS runs three release cycles a year — .04 (January–April), .08 (May–August), and .12 (September–December) — tracked internally against dozens of infrastructure, security, and project line items. This page summarizes the user-facing highlights from each cycle in plain language. Internal infrastructure changes, vendor and budget details, and security-operational specifics are tracked separately and are intentionally not published here.
All releases
Release 2027.08
May – August 2027 — Planned — the Pathify portal reaches general availability, and the consortium launches a new student information system on July 1, 2027.
Read the release notes ● PlannedRelease 2027.04
January – April 2027 — Planned — employee onboarding and the architecture map reach full release, service management automation becomes standard, and domain names come under central management.
Read the release notes ● In ProgressRelease 2026.12
September – December 2026 — In progress — the IT Steering Committee begins its work, CourseDog implementation starts, a replacement disaster recovery solution is built and tested, and the subdomain strategy completes.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2026.08
May – August 2026 — The Sports Bowl opened, a new president took office, CMC hosted CLAC 2026, and the academic year started on new hardware, software, and course sites.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2026.04
January – April 2026 — The Responsible Secure Computing Policy was approved, a managed Google Workspace tenant with Gemini launched, and the current student information system was extended for another year.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2025.12
September – December 2025 — Email and endpoint defenses were hardened, the storage roadmap was set through 2027, digital accessibility became a program, and Sports Bowl design began.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2025.08
May – August 2025 — The Robert Day Sciences Center opened, Sakai was retired, the entire virtual environment moved to new storage, and Slack opened to staff and faculty.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2025.04
January – April 2025 — FreshService went live, the NSF-funded HPC cluster was installed and commissioned, and the campus fiber loop was completed.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2024.12
September – December 2024 — The Information Security Policy set went to governance, FreshService replaced the legacy ticketing system, and the campus fiber backbone was built.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2024.08
May – August 2024 — Encrypted storage and a new security appliance were cut over, guest Wi-Fi launched, and CMC’s first HPC cluster was installed.
Read the release notes ● CompletedRelease 2024.04
January – April 2024 — The new ITS organizational structure was adopted, release management began, StarRez and EMS launched, and the Canvas migration started.
Read the release notesLooking Further Ahead
Beyond the current cycle, two releases are already sketched out:
- 2027.04 — a consolidation cycle: the betas of 2026.12 become standard practice, including full release of a modernized employee onboarding experience and the architecture map at 1.0.
- 2027.08 — the Pathify portal reaches general availability, and the consortium launches a new student information system on July 1, 2027 — a consortium-led date, with CMC’s work in that cycle being readiness.
Items move between releases as priorities and capacity change — 2026.08 closed with several platform items moved into the fall so the capital projects and the start of the academic year could have the people they needed. Deciding what belongs in a release is a governance conversation, not a scheduling one, and that movement is the system working as designed.