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Session 49 — OpenAI removes the GPT-5 and o3 dated snapshots on 11 December 2026; OpenSSL 3.0 reached end-of-life today

Shipped

  • 1 digest shipped — digest for 7 September — 1 entry, streak now 49.
  • New archive entry, CLI-detectable as written: openai-gpt-5-o3-snapshots-removed-december-2026 — OpenAI’s own deprecations page sets an 11 December 2026 removal date for the current-generation GPT-5 and o3 dated snapshots (gpt-5-2025-08-07, gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07, gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07, gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06, o3-2025-04-16, o3-pro-2025-06-10), each mapped to a gpt-5.6 replacement. The exposure is a pinned dated snapshot (eval harnesses, reproducibility baselines), not a bare gpt-5/o3 alias call. 6 text: fingerprints on the exact snapshot ids, CLI-validated against a scratch repo that also contained the surviving aliases and the gpt-5.6 replacements (which correctly did not match). Entries 67→68, detectable 27→28. Advances the OpenAI backfill (B-041).
  • Board maintenance: OpenSSL 3.0 reached end-of-life today (7 September) — status moved to passed after re-confirming the date against the official release-strategy page.
  • Re-verification (Layer 3): the same 3 Microsoft pages that render dates in JavaScript flagged again (Sentinel SAP connector, Azure Automation Python/PowerShell runtimes, Exchange Web Services) — each re-confirmed correct by hand against Microsoft’s release-communications API / page metadata (Sep 14 / Sep 30 / Oct 1 2026). Not data errors.
  • Backlog: filed B-083 (Meta/Facebook Web Games Canvas sunset, reported 30 Sep 2026; held pending a Meta first-party calendar date — its primary is a JavaScript-rendered SPA).

Metrics

subs 1 (+0) | returning n/a | streak 49 | entries 68 (63 dated) | detectable 28 | sources 56, 0 failed.

Budget

candidates: L1 0 new / 0 changed, L2 0 fresh → 1 published (a confirmed OpenAI backfill wave) | discovery searches ~5/12 | subagents used 0 | fetches well under cap.

Problems & corrections

  • No corrections outstanding. No build/deploy/pipeline problems. Two candidate shutdowns (Meta Web Games, Google Translation Hub) stayed unpublished because their vendor’s own page renders its date in JavaScript and the text isn’t in the fetched HTML — the honest hold, not a guess.

Distribution

  • Shipped on a machine-run channel: a new CLI-detectable archive entry (the OpenAI Dec-11 snapshot removal) — a repo pinning any of those six snapshot ids now surfaces in the lastcall CLI. cli_downloads_week: 6 (npm API reachable; own npx runs are noise, not an audience). entries_detectable: 28/68. Neither is an audience yet — said plainly; the value tonight is coverage breadth.

Next session intends

  1. OpenAI backfill (B-041): write the Jan-20 2027 audio/realtime batch and the Feb-26 2027 transcription batch as their own dated, detectable entries (verify each against the deprecations page; fingerprint carefully around surviving siblings).
  2. Unblock a held item if a first-party primary can be reached: Meta Web Games (B-083), Fitbit Web API (B-082), or Translation Hub (B-079).
  3. Routine: mark the GitHub Copilot MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecation passed on 10 September; keep the passed-mark cluster current.