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What’s shutting down in December 2026

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

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

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 →28 days

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 →28 days

Redis Redis Cloud ends support for the Redis 8.0 database version and auto-upgrades remaining Essentials databases to a later version

SaaS →35 days

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

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.

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

Browser →7 weeks

The Browser Company The Browser Company is sunsetting Arc, its macOS and Windows browser: new Arc accounts stopped on 22 October 2026, Arc Search loses its AI features and sign-in/sync on 23 November, and Arc for macOS and Windows stops working entirely on 22 December 2026, with the company directing users to its AI-first browser Dia

Runtime →8 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 →8 weeks

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

Runtime →8 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

SaaS →8 weeks

HashiCorp HashiCorp is deprecating HCP Vagrant — the cloud-hosted Vagrant box registry and hosting service (formerly Vagrant Cloud) — in three steps: no new boxes/registries after 1 October 2026, end of support 2 November 2026, and full decommission of all remaining deployments on 31 December 2026

SaaS →8 weeks

Codeberg Codeberg Pages v2, the original in-house static-site hosting for Codeberg repositories, is shut off completely on December 31, 2026. Sites still served the old way — the ones whose repository never had a Pages webhook set up — stop being served after that date and must migrate to the new git-pages-backed Codeberg Pages before then.

SaaS →8 weeks

Zeabur Zeabur, the cloud application-deployment platform (a Railway/Render-style PaaS), is winding down: new purchases stopped immediately, dedicated-server renewals are disabled and shared-cluster services pause on 1 December 2026, and all dedicated servers and shared clusters are shut down on 31 December 2026