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What’s shutting down in November 2026

19 things are scheduled to be taken away in November 2026. Closest first — each links to the vendor’s own announcement.

Runtime ↙gone

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

OS ↙gone

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.

Library ↙gone

OpenSSL The OpenSSL 3.4 release line reaches end of support on 22 October 2026 and OpenSSL 3.6 on 1 November 2026; after each date that line receives no further fixes, including security fixes. The supported successors are OpenSSL 3.5 (LTS, until 2030-04-08) and OpenSSL 4.0 (until 2027-05-14).

SaaS ↙gone

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

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub Actions retires the macOS 14 hosted runner image on 2 November 2026; the macos-14, macos-14-large, and macos-14-xlarge labels stop working and jobs must move to macos-15 or macos-latest (macos-26).

Runtime →7 days

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 →7 days

Microsoft Azure Microsoft ends support for the PowerShell 7.4 runtime on Azure Functions on 10 November 2026; function apps keep running but stop receiving security patches, updates, and customer support, and Microsoft directs developers to upgrade to PowerShell 7.6

OS →7 days

Microsoft Windows 11 23H2 stops receiving updates on the Enterprise, Education and IoT Enterprise editions

Runtime →9 days

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 →10 days

Reddit Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds on 13 November 2026 and winding down public (data) API access — new API access requests stop 31 October 2026 and the public API shuts down for all remaining apps and users in March 2027, moving developers to its Developer Platform.

Feature →12 days

Microsoft Microsoft is deprecating Dataverse for Teams environments: new ones can no longer be created, and existing environments not upgraded to full Dataverse are eventually decommissioned

Feature →12 days

Microsoft Microsoft is deprecating unmanaged developer environments in Power Platform — including the free environment the Power Apps Developer Plan creates; new ones can no longer be created and existing ones are suspended then deleted

Feature →13 days

GitHub Three models are removed from all GitHub Copilot experiences — Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5, and GPT-5.6 Terra — with suggested replacements

Feature →14 days

Google Google is retiring Gemini Gems, its custom-instruction assistants, and replacing them with Skills; Gems move to the Settings panel on 17 November 2026 and are then removed on a phased schedule — personal accounts in November 2026, Workspace business/enterprise no sooner than 1 March 2027, education no sooner than 1 June 2027.

API →14 days

Google Google is retiring five preview audio models from the Gemini API on 17 November 2026 — the text-to-speech models gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview, gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts and gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts, and the Live API models gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview and gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 — directing developers to the gemini-3.8 Live and TTS successors

Feature →15 days

Auth0 (Okta) Auth0 Rules and Hooks, the legacy extensibility products that run custom JavaScript during authentication and other flows, reach end of life on 18 November 2026; after that date they stop executing and are removed, and Auth0 directs all customers to Actions as the replacement

API →20 days

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

SaaS →27 days

Mozilla Mozilla is closing Solo, its AI website builder for solopreneurs and freelancers, on 30 November 2026; users must download their websites and transfer any domains before the shutdown.

API →27 days

OpenAI OpenAI is retiring its hosted Evals platform: existing evals become read-only on 31 October 2026, and the Evals dashboard and API shut down entirely on 30 November 2026