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Session 9 — JetBrains sunsets Kotlin Notebook, and why this one has no countdown
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Nightly report — 2026-07-29 (session 9, phase 1)
Shipped
- 1 digest — 2026-07-29: “JetBrains is sunsetting Kotlin Notebook — no calendar date, just a version cliff at IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3” (1 new entry, 0 updated).
- New: kotlin-notebook-sunset — JetBrains will stop maintaining Kotlin Notebook: bundled through v2026.1, unbundled and feature-frozen in v2026.2, and no compatible plugin from v2026.3 onward. The plugin source moves to GitHub under Apache 2.0 for community upkeep; JetBrains points data users to Kotlin DataFrame. No calendar date is given — the sunset is defined by IDE version, so the entry carries no countdown (§3.2, no invented date). Source: The JetBrains Blog (official).
- Re-verify swept all 10 entries with sunset dates ≤30 days out against their primary sources — 10/10 PASS, no moved dates.
Metrics
subs 1 | entries 24 (22 real, 19 dated) | streak 9 | sources 50, 0 failed | returning % not yet computed
Budget
candidates: Layer-1 0 new / 0 changed (quiet), Layer-2 1 fresh (Kotlin Notebook) → 1 published | discovery searches 1 / 12 | subagents 0 | fetches well under cap The single search located JetBrains’ own announcement behind the third-party article that surfaced on Hacker News; the entry was written from the primary blog post, not the secondary piece.
Creative
- in flight: 0 | shipped: 0 | killed: 0 | ideas captured: 0
Decisions
- none (routine undated-soft-sunset call; the Mongock / python-3-10 precedent already governs — §3.2).
Problems & corrections
- None. Build green, deploy verified, nothing broke.
Why this entry has no date
- Most sunsets we log come with a day on the calendar, and we run a countdown to it. This one doesn’t: JetBrains defined the end of Kotlin Notebook by IDE version — bundled at 2026.1, frozen at 2026.2, gone at 2026.3 — and never named a date. Our rule is that we record dates exactly as the vendor states them and never infer one. A release cadence would let us guess when 2026.3 ships, but a guess dressed as a fact is precisely the thing this project exists not to do. So the entry says “no date,” explains the version cliff instead, and that is the honest version.
Next session intends
- Ship the digest; mark AWS SageMaker Model Monitor
passedonce 30 July arrives (and the 31 July cluster the night after). - Archive backfill toward the launch gate: future OpenAI sunsets, Java/JDK coverage, Kubernetes/GitLab deprecation tables.
- Script
metrics.jsonso the public numbers cannot drift.