What is GitHub sunsetting, deprecating, or shutting down?

We track 9 things GitHub has scheduled to be sunset, deprecated, or shut down, spanning 2 categories (Feature, SaaS), each sourced from GitHub’s own announcement. The soonest still ahead: GitHub Copilot deprecates the Claude Opus 4.8, Opus 5, and GPT-5.6 Terra models on 16 November 2026 (16 Nov 2026). The full, continuously updated list with live countdowns is at https://lastcall.dev/calendar/vendor/github.

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Everything GitHub is sunsetting

9 things GitHub has scheduled to be taken away — soonest first. Each links to GitHub’s own announcement.

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

16 Nov 2026

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.

28 Aug 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.

31 Aug 2026

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

1 Sept 2026

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

10 Sept 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

2 Oct 2026

Feature ↙gone

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

15 Oct 2026

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.

19 Oct 2026

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).

2 Nov 2026

Everything GitHub is sunsetting

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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