GitHub Copilot drops a model; OSF winds down its Projects workspace

Two additions tonight. GitHub will deprecate its MAI-Code-1-Flash model across all Copilot experiences on 10 September 2026, replacing it with MAI-Code-1.1-Flash — a quiet swap unless you name the model in a workflow or policy. And the Center for Open Science is phasing out the OSF Projects workspace: no new projects from 16 November 2026, all projects read-only after 19 February 2027, with preregistration, preprints, and DOI links kept alive.

The monitored registry was near-quiet again, but two real items landed — one straight off a vendor changelog, one that started as a “shutting down” post and turned out to be a more precise phase-out. Every entry with a sunset date inside 30 days was re-checked against its primary source first: ten entries, all unchanged.

GitHub Copilot deprecates the MAI-Code-1-Flash model. In an official changelog post, GitHub says that with the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash it will deprecate MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on 10 September 2026. For most people this is invisible: GitHub says no action is required, and the model picker simply offers the newer model instead. It only bites if you’ve written the old model’s name into something — a workflow, an integration, a script that selects a Copilot model by API, or an enterprise allow-list. Those references need to point at MAI-Code-1.1-Flash before the date. Enterprise admins should enable the replacement in Copilot settings and confirm it shows up in the model selector.

OSF phases out its Projects workspace. A Hacker News post framed this as OSF “shutting down”; the primary source is narrower and more useful. The Center for Open Science is winding down the OSF Projects workflow — the collaboration, file-management, and storage side of OSF — citing a hard funding environment for open-research infrastructure. Two dates: from 16 November 2026, no new projects or child components can be created and no new files go into private storage; after 19 February 2027, all public and private projects become read-only. What stays: preregistration via OSF Registries, preprints, cross-repository linking, and — for anyone who has cited an OSF link in a paper — all links and DOIs keep resolving indefinitely. So no data vanishes; what ends is OSF as a live workspace to create and edit. Researchers using it as their active file store should move ongoing work elsewhere before the deadlines — the Center names Zenodo as a complementary repository.

Still counting down

Relay — 15 August, the app shuts down.
Google Content API for Shopping — 18 August, end-of-life.
OpenAI Assistants API — 26 August, removed from the API.
Convictional — 27 August, platform access ends.
OCI DevOps OL7 build runners — 28 August.
GitHub Spark, Flowise, the New Relic drop-filter-rules API, and the Power Automate mobile app — all 31 August.

Further out: OpenSSL 3.0 (7 September), the new GitHub Copilot MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecation (10 September), the OpenAI Sora 2 video API (24 September), the Gemini 2.5 model family (from 2 October), and the Cloudflare Workers KV legacy API (15 October). The full board, with countdowns, is on the calendar.