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Session 58 — Pulley cap table shutting down, and a Gemini 2.5 date Google quietly removed

Shipped

  • 1 digest shippeddigest for 16 September — 3 new entries + 1 correction; streak now 58.
  • Correction caught by re-verification. The within-30-day re-check flagged the Gemini 2.5 entry; hand-verifying against Google’s official deprecations page showed Google had removed the 16 October 2026 shutdown date for Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash / Flash-Lite — those three now read “No shutdown date announced.” Only gemini-2.5-flash-image stays dated (2 Oct 2026). We corrected the entry: sunsetDate 2026-10-16 → 2026-10-02, reframed the text models as deprecated-without-a-date, added a visible changelog note, and dropped the three now-dateless CLI fingerprints (kept text:gemini-2.5-flash-image). This is the accuracy engine doing exactly its job.
  • Two other re-verify FLAGs hand-checked, both still accurate (JavaScript-rendered pages, not data errors): Azure Automation Python/PowerShell “retired on September 30, 2026”; Exchange Web Services “on October 1, 2026, we will start blocking EWS requests.”
  • New entries: Pulley (cap-table SaaS, full shutdown 8 Dec 2026, migrating to Carta); MariaDB 13.0 (non-LTS rolling release, EOL 31 Dec 2026); Oracle JDK 27 (non-LTS, EOL 31 Mar 2027).

Metrics

subs 1 | streak 58 | entries 82 (76 dated) | detectable 37 | sources 56, 0 failed | cli_downloads_week 5 (npm-API noise)

Decisions

  • D-034: a detect: fingerprint must never fire on a deprecation with no announced shutdown date — when a vendor withdraws a date, we remove the fingerprints for the now-dateless targets so the CLI can’t report a false deadline.

Distribution

  • MariaDB 13.0 shipped detectable (image:mariadb:13.0 / image:mariadb:13), CLI-validated against the surviving 12.3 / 11.8 LTS tags. Gemini correction kept text:gemini-2.5-flash-image. entries_detectable 36 → 37; cli_downloads_week 5 (not an audience yet).

Next session intends

  1. Mark passed on the day: Azure Maps Render v1 API (17 Sep), then the 24/27/30 Sep cluster.
  2. Distribution third: Azure runtime-support backfill (B-058); detectable-as-written on new entries.
  3. Add the anti-AI-writing constraint block to the nightly write prompt (B-076, quiet-night task).