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82 entries, closest to the horizon first. Each links to the vendor’s own announcement.

Within 30 days · 13

Act now if you depend on these.

API →6 days

OpenAI OpenAI is removing its Sora 2 video-generation models and the Videos API from the platform — sora-2, sora-2-pro and their dated snapshots stop responding, with no direct replacement named

API →9 days

Cloudflare The legacy Cloudflare Registrar domain-management API paths (/accounts/{account_id}/registrar/domains) stop working; automation that manages Cloudflare-registered domains must move to the new Registrar API

Runtime →12 days

Microsoft Azure Automation ends support for the Python 2.7, Python 3.8, PowerShell 7.1, and PowerShell 7.2 runbook runtime versions

API →12 days

Amazon Web Services Amazon will permanently close Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) — the crowdsourcing marketplace and MTurk API for Human Intelligence Tasks — on 30 September 2026, and the same closure ends SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) human-review workflows

API →12 days

Cloudflare Cloudflare retires Service Key API authentication; requests using the X-Auth-User-Service-Key header stop being accepted and callers must move to Cloudflare API Tokens

Feature →12 days

JetBrains The JetBrains Teacher Pack for Bootcamps — the program that gave bootcamp instructors free JetBrains IDE access and issued student coupons — is being retired; 30 September 2026 is the final application day and no new applications are accepted from 1 October 2026

API →13 days

Microsoft Microsoft begins blocking Exchange Web Services (EWS) requests from non-Microsoft apps to Exchange Online; developers must migrate to Microsoft Graph

Other →13 days

Microsoft Microsoft Publisher is being discontinued. Microsoft 365 subscribers will not be able to access Publisher after 1 October 2026, and it will no longer be included in Microsoft 365 or available to install or download. The perpetual (one-time-purchase) version reaches end of support on 13 October 2026 with Office LTSC 2021 and consumer Office 2021. Microsoft's recommendation is to convert existing Publisher (.pub) files to PDF or Word before the cutoff.

API →14 days

Google Google has deprecated its Gemini 2.5 models in the Gemini API and directs developers to Gemini 3.x replacements; as of the latest deprecations page only Gemini 2.5 Flash Image carries a shutdown date (2 October 2026), while 2.5 Pro, 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Flash-Lite are listed as deprecated with "No shutdown date announced"

Feature →14 days

GitHub GitHub deprecates four selectable Copilot models — Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Claude Opus 4.7 — across all Copilot experiences on 2 October 2026, directing users to newer replacements

API →17 days

Cloudflare Two related Cloudflare Zero Trust / Tunnel API changes reach end-of-life on 5 October 2026: the CIDR-encoded route endpoints (/accounts/{account_id}/teamnet/routes/network/{ip_network_encoded}) are removed in favor of the route_id-based /teamnet/routes endpoints, and the connections array is removed from cfd_tunnel and warp_connector list/get responses

OS →25 days

Microsoft Windows 11 24H2 stops receiving updates on Home, Pro, Pro Education and Pro for Workstations

API →27 days

Cloudflare The old /workers/namespaces/ REST API paths for managing Workers KV stop working; calls must move to the /storage/kv/namespaces/ paths

Next six months · 22

On the horizon — plan the migration.

SaaS →34 days

Minimus Minimus, the hardened minimal container image provider, is ending operations: its registry (reg.mini.dev) is turned off on 22 October 2026 after a 60-day maintenance period, and no further updated images will be published

API →35 days

OpenAI OpenAI is removing a large batch of older chat and reasoning models from the API on 23 October 2026 — including gpt-4 (gpt-4-0613), gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4.1-nano, the gpt-4o-2024-05-13 snapshot, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini — directing developers to the gpt-5.6 family

Runtime →44 days

Microsoft Azure Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS reaches end of life; clusters and jobs must move to a supported Databricks Runtime version

OS →44 days

Alpine Linux The Alpine Linux 3.21 release branch reaches end of support (end of life) on November 1, 2026. After that date the 3.21 branch stops receiving security fixes and package updates, so container images built on the `alpine:3.21` base tag no longer get patched.

SaaS →6 weeks

Mullvad Mullvad is shutting down its public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers at dns.mullvad.net and recommending Quad9 instead; anyone who manually configured a Mullvad DoH resolver must switch before 2 November 2026 or lose DNS resolution

Runtime →8 weeks

Microsoft Microsoft ends support for .NET 8 (LTS) and .NET 9 (STS) — after 10 November 2026 neither receives security patches, bug fixes, or technical support

Runtime →8 weeks

PostgreSQL Global Development Group PostgreSQL 14 reaches end of life — after 12 November 2026 the community ships no further bug fixes or security patches for the 14.x line

API →9 weeks

Cloudflare The foundation_dns boolean in Cloudflare's DNS settings endpoints (/zones/{zone_id}/dns_settings and /accounts/{account_id}/dns_settings) is deprecated; code must select Advanced Nameservers via nameservers.type: "cloudflare.advanced" instead

API →11 weeks

OpenAI OpenAI is deprecating three GPT Image generation models — gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest — and removing them from the API, directing developers to gpt-image-2

API →11 weeks

Cloudflare The REST DNS Analytics API (/zones/{zone_id}/dns_analytics/) and DNS Firewall Analytics API (/accounts/{account_id}/dns_firewall/{id}/dns_analytics/report) stop working; analytics automation must move to Cloudflare's GraphQL Analytics API

SaaS →11 weeks

remove.bg (Canva) The remove.bg standalone website and its self-service background-removal API stop working; the tool moves into Canva and the API to Leonardo.ai

SaaS →12 weeks

Pulley Pulley, the venture-backed cap table and equity management platform for startups, will shut down and cease all operations and services on 8 December 2026, directing customers to migrate to Carta under an exclusive partnership

OS →12 weeks

Microsoft Azure Microsoft is retiring Azure Linux with OS Guard (preview) as a node pool operating system in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Support ends December 10, 2026, after which no new Azure Linux with OS Guard node pools can be created and existing pools stop receiving node images and security patches; on March 10, 2027 AKS removes the node images entirely. Azure Container Linux is the named replacement.

API →12 weeks

OpenAI OpenAI is removing the dated GPT-5 and o3 model snapshots — gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16 and o3-pro-2025-06-10 — from the API on 11 December 2026, directing developers to the gpt-5.6 family

Runtime →15 weeks

PHP PHP 8.2 reaches its security end-of-life on December 31, 2026. Active (bug-fix) support already ended December 31, 2024; after the 2026 date the 8.2 branch receives no further releases at all, including security fixes, so applications and container images pinned to `php:8.2` stop getting patched.

SaaS →15 weeks

Standard Notes Standard Notes is sunsetting Listed, its publishing/blogging platform; the site and all public blogs go offline

Runtime →15 weeks

MariaDB MariaDB 13.0, a non-LTS "rolling" release that shipped on 15 September 2026, reaches end of life on 31 December 2026 — roughly three and a half months of maintenance, after which the 13.0 series gets no further releases

Feature →15 weeks

Google Gmail is discontinuing three features for third-party (non-Google) email accounts on the web — "Send as" (sending from a non-Google address like an @outlook.com or @yahoo.com account), Gmailify, and POP fetching of external mail into the Gmail web interface — with full removal in January 2027. Google-hosted addresses (Gmail and Workspace) and the Gmail mobile app are not affected.

API →18 weeks

OpenAI OpenAI has deprecated a family of older audio, realtime, and speech-to-text API models — including gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, and the gpt-4o audio/realtime line — and will remove them from the API on 20 January 2027

Feature →19 weeks

Microsoft Azure Azure Blueprints (Preview) is being retired on a phased timeline — new blueprint definitions can no longer be created as of 31 July 2026, and the service is fully removed on 31 January 2027; Microsoft points teams to Template Specs and Deployment Stacks

SaaS →22 weeks

Center for Open Science The Center for Open Science winds down the OSF Projects workflow — collaboration, file management, and storage — locking new project creation from 16 November 2026 and making all projects read-only after 19 February 2027; preregistration and preprints continue

API →23 weeks

OpenAI OpenAI has deprecated its older speech-to-text API models — whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize — and will remove them from the API on 26 February 2027

Later · 6

Dated, but you have room.

SaaS →28 weeks

Amazon Web Services AWS is ending support for Amazon WorkMail, its managed business email and calendar service. WorkMail stops accepting new customers on 30 April 2026, and on 31 March 2027 existing customers can no longer use it or access the WorkMail console and resources. AWS points customers to third-party email services and a mailbox export path.

Runtime →28 weeks

Oracle Oracle JDK 27, a non-LTS feature release that shipped on 15 September 2026, reaches end of life on 31 March 2027 — after which it receives no further Oracle updates, including security patches, and developers are expected to move to the next release or to an LTS line

SaaS →32 weeks

Microsoft Azure Microsoft is ending support for the Node.js 22 LTS runtime on Azure App Service on 30 April 2027; apps keep running but stop receiving security updates and customer support, and Microsoft directs developers to upgrade to Node 24 LTS

SaaS →37 weeks

HashiCorp HashiCorp is retiring HCP Vagrant, its hosted Vagrant box registry. New box and registry creation ends 14 December 2026, support ends 15 March 2027, and all operations cease on 7 June 2027, after which hosted boxes are decommissioned. The Vagrant CLI and community edition are not affected.

SaaS →49 weeks

Microsoft Azure Azure VMware Solution (AVS) retires its license-included offering — the pay-as-you-go (PayGo) license-included SKUs on 15 October 2026 and all remaining license-included services (including Reserved Instance SKUs and the AV36 SKU) on 30 August 2027 — forcing customers onto the AVS VCF bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model with portable Broadcom VMware Cloud Foundation licenses

SaaS →50 weeks

Instant Instant, the open-source realtime database and backend-as-a-service, is winding down its hosted Instant Cloud after the team joins OpenAI — new signups are closed and all cloud apps shut down on 31 August 2027, with self-hosting the migration path

Date not announced · 6

Signalled, no firm date. Watch these.

SaaS · signalled ·not announced

Google Google is discontinuing the classic Google Assistant on mobile devices — phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, compatible headphones, and phone-projected Android Auto — replacing it with Gemini; Google's public post says this happens "later this year," and Google's emails to users (reported 4 August) say removal begins 4 September 2026

Feature ·not announced

JetBrains JetBrains will stop maintaining Kotlin Notebook as a product: from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 it is unbundled and gets no new features, and no compatible plugin will be published for 2026.3 and beyond; the source moves to open source

Library ·not announced

Mongock Mongock, the Java/Spring change-management tool for MongoDB, stops feature development now and reaches end-of-life at the end of 2026; its makers point users to a successor, Flamingock

Feature · signalled ·not announced

JetBrains PyCharm unbundles and stops maintaining a set of low-usage bundled plugins — Data Wrangler, Hugging Face, Google Colab, Spark/PySpark support, AI Playground, AI Agents Debugger, and Databricks

Runtime · signalled ·not announced

Python Python 3.10 stops receiving security fixes

API ·not announced

Google The Maps JavaScript API Heatmap Layer and Drawing Library are no longer supported and have been removed

Already gone · 35

The permanent record.

SaaS ↙gone

Google Google Reader was shut down

Runtime ↙gone

Python Python 2.7 reached end-of-life

Feature ↙gone

Adobe Adobe Flash Player reached end-of-life

OS ↙gone

CentOS / Red Hat CentOS Linux 7 reached end-of-life

Runtime ↙gone

Node.js Node.js 20 "Iron", the LTS line, reached end of life on April 30, 2026. The 20.x branch now receives no further releases of any kind, including security fixes, so applications and container images pinned to `node:20` no longer get patched.

API ↙gone

Google (Tenor) Google decommissioned the Tenor API — the GIF search and share service behind GIF pickers across the web — on 30 June 2026, terminating all API and Ads Distribution Agreements and ending third-party access with no official replacement

SaaS ↙gone

Codeanywhere Codeanywhere, the browser-based cloud IDE, has shut down: new signups closed and the service went fully offline on 1 July 2026, after which workspaces, containers, and any data left on the platform are no longer accessible

Feature ↙gone

Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud ends app passwords entirely, forcing a move to API tokens

SaaS ↙gone

Amazon Web Services SageMaker Model Monitor stops accepting new customers and enters maintenance-only mode — no new features

API ↙gone

Adobe Adobe retires the Lightroom API (Firefly Services), directing users to Photoshop API v2

SaaS ↙gone

Datadog CoScreen, the multi-cursor screen-sharing tool Datadog acquired, is discontinued entirely

Runtime ↙gone

MongoDB MongoDB 8.2 reaches end-of-life

Runtime ↙gone

RabbitMQ RabbitMQ 4.2 stops receiving free community releases

SaaS ↙gone

Resend new.email, Resend's standalone AI tool for generating email templates from natural-language prompts, is being shut down, with its capabilities folded into the main Resend product

Browser ↙gone

OpenAI The standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser stops working; agentic browsing folds into ChatGPT

Runtime ↙gone

Ruby on Rails Rails 7.2 stops receiving security patches — the end of its two-year maintenance window

API ↙gone

Google Google will sunset the Content API for Shopping on 18 August 2026, replacing it with the newer Merchant API

API ↙gone

OpenAI OpenAI has deprecated the Assistants API and will remove it from the platform on 26 August 2026, directing developers to the newer Responses API

SaaS ↙gone

Convictional Convictional, the B2B trade-enablement and dropship network that connects retailers and suppliers, ends all platform access; integrations and inventory syncing stop and customers must export their data

Feature ↙gone

Oracle Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's DevOps service is ending support for Oracle Linux 7 build runners. From 28 August 2026, you can no longer create or run builds on OL7-based build runners in OCI DevOps. This affects the managed CI/CD build service only — it is not the end of the Oracle Linux 7 operating system, which stays on Extended Support until 2028.

SaaS ↙gone

GitHub GitHub Classroom is deprecated as of 28 August 2026 in favor of GitHub's selected partner solutions. The GitHub Classroom website, APIs, and related services have been decommissioned. User accounts, repositories, and organizations created to work with Classroom are unaffected, but some Classroom-only data — classroom and assignment names, tests defined outside of repositories, and LTI-integrated rosters — will be permanently deleted under GitHub's data-retention policies. This completes a transition GitHub announced on 26 May 2026, when new sign-ups ended.

SaaS ↙gone

Flowise Flowise, the open-source low-code builder for LLM apps and agents, is shutting down — the team has frozen development, will archive the GitHub repository on 10 August 2026, and marks the project end-of-life on 31 August 2026

SaaS ↙gone

GitHub GitHub is deprecating GitHub Spark, its prompt-to-app builder on github.com. As of 4 August 2026 it no longer accepts new users or new app creation; existing users have until 31 August 2026 to open Spark and export their app code before access ends.

API ↙gone

New Relic New Relic will shut off its NRQL Drop Filter Rules API on 31 August 2026, moving drop-rule management to the Pipeline Cloud Rules API and the Pipeline Control UI

SaaS ↙gone

Microsoft The Power Automate mobile app for iOS and Android is deprecated; the app is pulled from the stores and stops getting updates, support, and push notifications

SaaS ↙gone

Delibr Delibr, the collaborative product-work document tool, is shutting down on 31 August 2026. The app stays fully functional until that date; after it, all data is permanently deleted. Delibr provides an export tool (email + API key) that produces a single JSON file of your teams, collections, and documents with their comments. Billing has already stopped: no subscriptions are charged after July 2026.

OS ↙gone

Debian Debian 11 "bullseye" reached end-of-life as its Long Term Support (LTS) term ended

SaaS ↙gone

Microsoft Azure Azure is retiring the nested confidential cc_v5 virtual machine series on 1 September 2026. After that date the cc_v5 series is no longer available for use or purchase, and any affected VM that has not been resized before the cutoff will be deallocated. The impacted VM sizes are DCas_cc_v5, DCads_cc_v5, ECas_cc_v5, and ECads_cc_v5.

SaaS ↙gone

Gen (SurfEasy) SurfEasy VPN reaches end of life on 1 September 2026. After that date the SurfEasy apps and services stop working entirely — you cannot access your account, download, activate, connect, or use the app. SurfEasy's owner, Gen (the Norton / Cyber Safety brands family), is retiring it as part of a "portfolio simplification strategy" and is offering eligible SurfEasy Legacy and Annual customers Norton VPN at no extra cost, with a product key delivered by email.

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub deprecated six models — Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Raptor Mini — across most GitHub Copilot experiences

Library ↙gone

OpenSSL OpenSSL 3.0, the current long-term-support branch, stops receiving fixes

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub removes the MAI-Code-1-Flash model from all GitHub Copilot experiences and directs users to its successor, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash

Feature ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft retires the containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications; the SAP agentless data connector is the replacement

SaaS ↙gone

Relay.app The Relay.app workflow-automation service closes, on two dates: free accounts first, paid accounts a month later

API ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft retires the Azure Maps Render v1 REST API — after 17 September 2026 calls to the Render v1 endpoints stop working and must move to Render v2

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