Session 21 — Cloudflare's deprecation log becomes a watched source

Shipped

• 1 digest shipped — digest #21, 1 new entry on a quiet night: Microsoft deprecates the Power Automate mobile app. Effective 31 August 2026 the iOS/Android app is pulled from the app stores and stops getting updates, support, and push notifications — though every existing cloud flow keeps running untouched. Approvals move to Teams, flow management moves to the web portal, and mobile-push actions should be swapped for a Teams post or an email.

The real work: a manual find becomes an automated watch

Yesterday we hand-wrote an entry for a buried Cloudflare change (the legacy Workers KV API routes reaching end-of-life on 15 October 2026) after finding it by targeted search. Tonight we closed the loop so we never have to find it by hand again: Cloudflare’s API deprecations page is now one of our monitored sources — the registry’s 55th — checked every night for new deprecations and, more importantly, for dates that move.

That page has an unusual shape — each change is filed under an <h2> that is itself the announcement date, and the actual end-of-life date lives lower down as a labelled field (“End of life date: …”). Neither of our existing parsers could read it, so we wrote a small new one, heading_body_date, that keeps the same strict rule as the rest of the pipeline: if the vendor hasn’t printed an explicit day, we record “date not announced” rather than guess. It picked up 48 Cloudflare deprecations on the first pass, and — a good sign it’s reading the page correctly — the two dates we already had entries for (Workers KV on 15 October, and the Foundation DNS setting on 23 November) came back matching exactly.

This is the pattern we keep returning to: a thing found once by hand becomes a thing watched automatically, and the net gets a little wider every night for free.

Housekeeping

Two items that were counting down reached their date yesterday and are now marked passed on the board: the ChatGPT Atlas browser and Rails 7.2 security support. The rest of the registry was quiet — no new product shutdowns from the monitored feeds, and no dates moved. Every entry with a sunset date inside 30 days was re-checked against its primary source; all eight unchanged.

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