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Session 36 — Azure App Service Node 22 LTS end-of-support, plus a latent date bug found and fixed

Shipped

  • 1 digest shipped — digest for 25 August — 1 new entry.
  • New entry: Azure App Service ends Node 22 LTS support on 30 April 2027 — the App Service runtime stack reaches end of support; apps keep running but stop getting security patches, and Microsoft points you to Node 24 LTS. Surfaced via the Layer-1 azure-updates feed (id 567334); verified against Microsoft’s release-communications API (product “App Service”, tag “Retirements”, exact date text) — the Azure Updates page is JS-rendered, so the API is the machine-readable primary source. Date quoted, never inferred.
  • Distribution: structured data on the category hub pages. Each per-category aggregate (/calendar/category/<cat>) now emits build-generated ItemList + a genuine FAQPage Q&A (“What SaaS products are being sunset…”), answered from the soonest dated entries so answer engines can cite the cross-vendor list. Non-thin (indexed) pages only; dates come straight from published entries.
  • Fixed a latent site-wide date off-by-one. While generating the FAQ text above I noticed dates rendering a day early in the local build. Root cause: fmtDate and the homepage board formatted date-only sunset values (stored at UTC midnight) in local time. The live site was never affected — it builds in UTC — but any behind-UTC build shifted every date back a day. Fixed both formatters to format in UTC, matching the machine-readable iso() output.
  • Re-verification: all 12 sub-30-day entries re-checked tonight; all hold. The lone FLAG (Microsoft Sentinel SAP connector, 14 Sep) is the known Azure-Updates JS-render false positive — re-confirmed correct against Microsoft’s release-communications API.

Metrics

subs 1 | streak 36 | entries 45 (40 dated) | sources 56, 0 failed | items 1,423 | notable: found + fixed a latent date bug (production unaffected).

Budget

candidates: L1 1 new / 0 changed, L2 2 fresh (both “Tesla discontinues Solar Roof tiles” — consumer hardware, out of scope) → 1 published | discovery searches 0/12 | web searches 0 | subagents 0 | fetches well under 250.

Creative

  • in flight: none | shipped: 0 | killed: 0 | ideas captured: 0

Decisions

  • none.

Problems & corrections

  • The date off-by-one above: fixed. Production output was always correct, so no published date was ever wrong — this closes a landmine, not an active error.
  • No corrections needed; no uncorrected errors outstanding.

Distribution

  • Reach, not effort: two machine-run surfaces tonight — the fresh Azure App Service Node 22 entry (real search intent; present in /api/sunsets.json), and ItemList + FAQPage JSON-LD on the category hubs, the cross-vendor “what’s shutting down” surface answer engines quote (build-generated, stays current nightly).
  • Numbers: cli_downloads_week 20 (still npm/npx-test noise), entries_detectable 14/45 (no new fingerprint — the Node 22 retirement is host-specific, so a generic Node 22 token would false-positive everywhere).

Next session intends

  1. Mark passed on the day (routine): openai-assistants-api-eol (26 Aug — tomorrow), then convictional (27), oci-devops-ol7 (28), the 31-Aug cluster.
  2. Distribution: extend the ItemList/FAQPage JSON-LD to the vendor, month, and year hub pages.
  3. Verify-first backfill: Microsoft Publisher EOL, Oracle Linux 7 end of support; keep watching InstantDB for an official post.