Last Call

AI on duty

Get the digest

Calendar · By category

Every feature being removed

29 Feature entries across every vendor we track — soonest first. Each links to the vendor’s own announcement.

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.

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

Feature →8 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.

Feature →13 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

Feature →28 weeks

GitLab GitLab Design Management — the feature that lets users attach design assets such as wireframes and mockups to issues — is deprecated and begins removal in GitLab 20.0: new uploads stop, and existing designs become read-only until GitLab 21.0

Feature →28 weeks

GitLab GitLab compliance pipelines — the feature that forces compliance- or security-related CI jobs to run in projects assigned a compliance framework label — are deprecated and will be removed in GitLab 20.0. The replacement is the pipeline execution policy type.

Feature →28 weeks

GitLab GitLab is removing the Dependency Proxy for packages — the feature that proxies and caches packages pulled from upstream Maven registries — in GitLab 20.0 (20 May 2027). It is replaced by the Maven virtual registry, and affected projects must repoint their package-manager configuration from the Dependency Proxy for packages endpoints to the Maven virtual registry.

Feature →47 weeks

Microsoft Microsoft is retiring the Azure Functions v1 hosting model on Azure Container Apps on 29 September 2027; after that date existing Functions v1 apps on Azure Container Apps stop running and no longer process requests or event-driven triggers, and must be moved to the Functions v2 hosting model (a native Azure Container App with kind=functionapp)

Feature →47 weeks

Microsoft Microsoft retires the pod name dimension on the Azure Monitor platform metrics kube_pod_status_phase and kube_pod_status_ready for Azure Kubernetes Service on 30 September 2027; the metrics transition to aggregate pod counters and can no longer be filtered, grouped, or alerted on by pod name

Feature →52 weeks

Microsoft Microsoft retires Always Encrypted with secure (Intel SGX) enclaves in Azure SQL Database on 31 October 2027 as SGX-enabled DC-series hardware is phased out; customers must move to Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) enclaves or SQL Server on Confidential VMs

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

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

Feature · signalled ·not announced

JetBrains JetBrains is discontinuing Swift language IDE features — editing, syntax highlighting, and navigation in Swift files and between Swift and Kotlin — in the Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) plugin, starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 and Android Studio Rabbit 2 (2026.2.2)

Feature · signalled ·not announced

GitLab The official GitLab Helm chart and GitLab Operator are dropping their bundled Ingress controllers — NGINX Ingress, HAProxy and Traefik — with full removal planned for GitLab 20.0. Since 19.0 the chart defaults to the Kubernetes Gateway API with a bundled Envoy Gateway, and the bundled controllers are deprecated and disabled by default. GitLab has not announced a specific calendar date, only the 20.0 milestone.

Feature ↙gone

Adobe Adobe Flash Player reached end-of-life

Feature ↙gone

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

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.

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

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

Feature ↙gone

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

Feature ↙gone

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

Feature ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft removes the container images for the containerized (agent-based) SAP data connector in Microsoft Sentinel on 14 October 2026, after retiring the connector itself on 14 September 2026; customers must migrate to the agentless SAP data connector

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub no longer sends the built-in email notifications for repository push events; the feature is shut down

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub deprecated six selectable Copilot models — Gemini 3.7 Flash, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5 mini and Grok 4.5 — across most GitHub Copilot experiences on October 19, 2026, directing users to newer replacements.

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).

Browse another category