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October 2026
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CI runners 19 October 2026 to 19 November 2026
GitHub moves ubuntu-latest to Ubuntu 26.04: setup-beam cannot install Erlang/OTP 24 or 25
As ubuntu-latest moves to Ubuntu 26.04 (19 October to 19 November 2026), erlef/setup-beam installs Erlang/OTP builds made for 26.04, and that build list starts at OTP 26.0.
Guide Checker and fixes per entry: keep old OTP on ubuntu-24.04, raise to OTP 26+, or update setup-beam
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: ubuntu-latest → 26.04: Erlang OTP 24/25 fail
- Who is affected
Elixir and Erlang jobs on ubuntu-latest that ask for OTP 24 or 25, and any job pinned to setup-beam v1.24.0 or earlier, which does not recognise the 26.04 image whatever OTP version it asks for. Of 224 popular Hex packages' repositories that run setup-beam on ubuntu-latest, 89 had a job that fails this way.
- How to check
Run our checkbeam2604.py on your repository; it needs no token and runs nothing from the repository. The download and run commands are in the note.
Source: actions/runner-images issue #14748: ubuntu-latest becomes Ubuntu 26.04. Checked . Link to this entry
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CI runners 19 October 2026 to 19 November 2026
GitHub moves ubuntu-latest to Ubuntu 26.04: the default Java becomes 25, and Gradle 8 builds that don't choose a JDK can fail
As ubuntu-latest moves to Ubuntu 26.04 (19 October to 19 November 2026), the runner's default Java changes from 17 to 25. GitHub's announcement table still lists 17 as the 26.04 default; the 26.04 image readme lists 25.0.5 (both read 2 November). Java 8 is not installed on 26.04. Gradle officially supports Java 25 from 9.1.0.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: ubuntu-latest → 26.04: Java 25 can break Gradle
- Who is affected
Jobs on ubuntu-latest that run Gradle without choosing a JDK (no actions/setup-java step and no JAVA_HOME setting) and use a Gradle 8.x or older wrapper, or a Kotlin Gradle plugin 2.1.0 or older. That includes flutter build apk and appbundle, which run the project's Android Gradle wrapper and compile Kotlin. In our container tests, Gradle 7.6.4, 8.5, 8.13 and 8.14.3 failed on Temurin 25 and passed on Temurin 17. Gradle 8.14.4 to 8.14.6, the last 8.x releases, carry a partial Java 25 fix: on Temurin 25.0.5 they passed with a Groovy build script (build.gradle) and still failed with a Kotlin one (build.gradle.kts), which new Flutter and Android projects use. The Groovy pass holds only for projects that compile no Kotlin or use Kotlin Gradle plugin 2.1.10 or later: with plugin 1.9.25, 2.0.21 or 2.1.0, compileKotlin failed on Gradle 8.14.6, and 2.0.21 and 2.1.0 failed on 9.1.0 too. With a Groovy build script on Gradle 8.14.3 or older the error is "Unsupported class file major version 69"; with a Kotlin build script, "What went wrong" shows only the Java version, such as 25.0.5; with an older Kotlin Gradle plugin, compileKotlin prints "e: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 25.0.5". In a sample of 1,094 recently active Java, Kotlin and Dart repositories, about 1 in 70 of those that build JVM code on ubuntu-latest would hit this, most of them Flutter apps (predicted, not run). A Gradle cache restored from a 24.04 run can hide the failure until a build script changes.
- How to check
Run these at the repository root. The first prints the workflow lines that name ubuntu-latest, setup-java or JAVA_HOME, so you can match them to jobs; the second prints each Gradle wrapper's version with its file (a wrapper in a plugin or example folder is not your app's); the third lists Kotlin build scripts; the fourth prints the lines that set a Kotlin Gradle plugin version. A ubuntu-latest job with no setup-java or JAVA_HOME line is likely to fail if its wrapper is 8.14.3 or older, or 8.14.4 to 8.14.6 with a Kotlin build script, or if it uses a Kotlin Gradle plugin 2.1.0 or older on any Gradle version (1.9.25, 2.0.21 and 2.1.0 failed in our tests; 2.1.10, 2.1.20, 2.1.21 and 2.2.20 passed; other versions were not tested). These greps miss a JDK chosen in a reusable workflow or a composite action, and a Kotlin version set somewhere other than these build files.
grep -rnE 'ubuntu-latest|setup-java|JAVA_HOME' .github/workflows grep -r --include=gradle-wrapper.properties distributionUrl . find . -name '*.gradle.kts' -not -path '*/node_modules/*' grep -rnE --include='*.gradle' --include='*.gradle.kts' --include='*.toml' --exclude-dir=node_modules 'org\.jetbrains\.kotlin|kotlin_version|kotlin\("|^kotlin *=' .- Fix
Tested fix
Choose Java 17 again in the job: Java 17 is still installed on 26.04, so one step that points JAVA_HOME at it is enough, or use actions/setup-java with Temurin 17 (we did not run this route). Two public projects whose ./gradlew help passed on 17 and failed on 25 passed again with only JAVA_HOME pointed at 17. The longer-term fix is a Gradle 9.1 or later wrapper and, for projects that compile Kotlin, Kotlin Gradle plugin 2.1.10 or later: on Temurin 25.0.5, Gradle 9.1.0 passed with both Groovy and Kotlin build scripts and with plugin 2.1.10 or 2.1.21, and failed with plugin 2.0.21 or 2.1.0. Executed by us in containers, not on a hosted runner; Maven and sbt builds, the Android Gradle plugin and Flutter itself were not tested; not independently reproduced.
# One step: Java 17 is still installed on 26.04 - run: echo "JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME_17_X64" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" # Or - uses: actions/setup-java@v6 with: distribution: temurin java-version: '17'Tested
Source: actions/runner-images issue #14748: ubuntu-latest becomes Ubuntu 26.04 (its table still lists Java 17 as the default), Ubuntu 26.04 runner image readme: Java 25.0.5 (default), 17.0.21 at JAVA_HOME_17_X64; image 20261026.180.1, Gradle compatibility matrix: running Gradle on Java 25 needs 9.1.0 or later, Gradle 8.14.4 release notes: "[Backport] Improve Java 25 support in Gradle 8.14" (#36420). Checked . Link to this entry
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CI runners 19 October 2026 to 19 November 2026
GitHub moves ubuntu-latest to Ubuntu 26.04: setup-python and setup-ruby jobs fail for versions with no 26.04 build
GitHub rolls the ubuntu-latest label from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 over several weeks, starting 19 October and finishing by 19 November 2026. actions/setup-python and ruby/setup-ruby download a build made for the exact Ubuntu version, and far fewer builds exist for 26.04.
Playwright install fails on 26.04? Upgrade to 1.61.0 or later — tested fix.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: ubuntu-latest → 26.04: Python/Ruby setup fails
- Who is affected
Jobs on ubuntu-latest that ask for a Python or Ruby version with no 26.04 build: an old version such as Python 3.8 or 3.9, or an exact patch version, including pins in .python-version or .ruby-version. In a sample of 548 active public repositories, 122 had at least one such job.
- How to check
Open our browser check and choose your repository folder. It reads only the workflow and version files and lists every step that fails at setup on 26.04, with its fix. To run your own tests on ubuntu-26.04 beside a 24.04 baseline every week, add our free Future CI workflow: https://github.com/CyberNative-AI/future-ci
Source: actions/runner-images issue #14748: ubuntu-latest becomes Ubuntu 26.04. Checked . Link to this entry
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November 2026
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CI runners 2–8 November 2026
GitHub's macOS 26 runners switch openssl to OpenSSL 4: checks for version 3 stop matching
From 2 November 2026, GitHub's new macOS 26 and Xcode 27 runner images run OpenSSL 4 when a workflow calls openssl without a path. The rollout is planned to finish by 8 November, "subject to compatibility validation". GitHub says: "The default openssl command will change from OpenSSL 3.x to OpenSSL 4.x on macOS 26 Intel/Arm64 and Xcode 27 Arm64 runner images." We screened 2,202 candidate openssl calls in public workflows and replayed those we could using Linux builds of OpenSSL 3.5.9, 3.6.5 and 4.0.3, as a stand-in for macOS. Within this collected sample we identified three repositories whose steps are likely to behave differently; two check for "OpenSSL 3". We did not run those repositories' workflows. On a GitHub-hosted macOS 26 runner on 22 October we ran the version check itself: with OpenSSL 4.0.3 first on the path, a check for "OpenSSL 3" left out -legacy and an old-format .p12 could not be read. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: macOS 26 runners: openssl becomes OpenSSL 4
- Who is affected
GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps jobs on macos-latest, macos-26 (Arm64 or Intel, any size) or the Xcode 27 image that call openssl by name. macOS 14 and 15, Ubuntu and Windows images keep their OpenSSL defaults. Our scan identified 2,202 candidate calls in 1,027 active public repositories (pushed to since 21 April 2026 and not archived). These are scan counts: at least one candidate was actually pinned to OpenSSL 3. Using the same synthetic test files under OpenSSL 3.5.9, 3.6.5 and 4.0.3, we classified 1,825 calls as unchanged, 139 as printing different text, 66 as writing different files and one as failing; 171 could not be replayed. We counted a change only when 4.0.3 differed from both 3.x versions. We read every changed call and the steps after it. Three repositories have a step that is likely to behave differently. Two decide whether to pass -legacy for an Apple .p12 file by checking that openssl version starts with "OpenSSL 3"; on OpenSSL 4 the check fails and the flag is dropped. In our test an RC2-40 .p12, the old Apple format, could not be read without -legacy on 3.5.9, 3.6.5 or 4.0.3. The third reads openssl version -e, which OpenSSL 4 no longer has ("Unknown option: -e", because engines were removed), so the library path it sets comes out empty. Other changes reach fewer scripts. Key and certificate -text dumps print hex in a new layout, with no leading 00: and 16 bytes per row; the Subject, Issuer and OID lines we checked are unchanged. Self-signed certificates made with req -x509 no longer get an Authority Key Identifier, and a certificate signed with x509 -req -CA and -extfile gets no key identifiers at all unless the file asks for them. Python 3.13 in its default strict mode then rejected such a leaf ("Missing Authority Key Identifier") when its CA had a keyUsage extension; none of the 7 repositories we found using -extfile met both conditions. We replayed the calls on OpenSSL built on Linux with Homebrew's options, as a stand-in for the macOS packages; on a macOS runner we ran only the tests this entry describes, not the collected workflows or codesign. We read only the run: lines of public workflows, not the scripts they call, composite actions, private repositories or self-hosted runners. Code search caps its results, so this is an incomplete scan, not a census of affected repositories. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
- How to check
From your repository root, list the lines that check for OpenSSL 3, read openssl version -e or sign with an extension file, as below, and run the same search on any scripts your workflows call. A version check can also be written another way, such as cutting the number out of openssl version, so read the steps that handle certificates, keys or .p12 files too. In the 2,080 public workflow files we collected for affected jobs, this search found the lines in all three repositories above. To try a step on OpenSSL 4 before the switch, call $(brew --prefix openssl@4)/bin/openssl on a macos-26 job: GitHub lists OpenSSL 4 as already installed on these images, and on the macos-26 and macos-latest runners we used on 22 October it was: version 4.0.3.
grep -rnE \ -e 'grep.*OpenSSL 3' \ -e 'openssl version -e' \ -e '-extfile' .github- Fix
Tested fix
For a step that needs OpenSSL 3, call it by its Homebrew prefix (first lines below). On the macOS 26 runners we used on 22 October this printed OpenSSL 3.6.5, the same version as the default openssl there, and GitHub says it stays installed. Use it for openssl version -e too, which has no OpenSSL 4 equivalent. For a check that only needs to tell OpenSSL from LibreSSL, the openssl that comes with macOS, match '^OpenSSL [3-9]' instead of '^OpenSSL 3'. In our test that pattern matched the version line of OpenSSL 3.5.9, 3.6.5 and 4.0.3, while '^OpenSSL 3' did not match 4.0.3. Keep passing -legacy for RC2-40 .p12 files: on 4.0.3 such a file still failed to read without it and read with it, as on 3.x. If you sign certificates with x509 -req -CA and -extfile and a strict client checks them, add the two key identifier lines to that file (last lines below). On a macOS 26 runner with OpenSSL 4.0.3, a server certificate signed without them failed Python's default check ("Missing Authority Key Identifier") when the CA had keyUsage, and one signed with them passed. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
# Call OpenSSL 3 by its Homebrew prefix OPENSSL="$(brew --prefix openssl@3)/bin/openssl" "$OPENSSL" version # Or accept OpenSSL 3 and later openssl version | grep -q '^OpenSSL [3-9]' # In the -extfile file subjectKeyIdentifier=hash authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuerTested
Source: actions/runner-images issue 14856: The default OpenSSL version will be updated from 3 to 4 on macOS 26 and Xcode 27, actions/runner-images pull request 14825: Keep OpenSSL 3 as default alongside OpenSSL 4 (the default openssl points to openssl@3), actions/runner-images: available images and their labels (macos-latest is macOS 26 Arm64), OpenSSL 4.0 manual: x509v3_config (subjectKeyIdentifier and authorityKeyIdentifier), CyberNative AI note: macos-latest switches openssl to 4.x on November 2–8 (tests on a macOS 26 runner). Checked . Link to this entry
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Git hosting 4 November 2026 to 9 December 2026, on those two days only; GitHub has not announced the hours
GitHub SSH brownouts: old clients with RSA keys fail on 4 November and 9 December
On 4 November and 9 December 2026, github.com runs brownouts of a change it makes permanent on 13 January 2027: it stops accepting RSA signatures made with SHA-1 (ssh-rsa) and the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange. GitHub has not announced the hours or how long each brownout lasts. Only Git over SSH is affected: GitHub says remotes that start with https:// are not. In our own test, against a stand-in for GitHub's server, 10 of 32 SSH client stacks broke, all only with an RSA key. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
The error each client prints, and its fix, are in our GitHub SSH guide.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: GitHub SSH brownout: old RSA clients fail
- Who is affected
Two parts of the change can break a connection to github.com over SSH. The first is SHA-1 signatures, which some old clients are limited to when they use an RSA key. Since 15 March 2022, GitHub has required SHA-2 signatures for RSA keys added on or after 2 November 2021. The SHA-1 removal therefore newly affects only older RSA keys used with SHA-1 signatures. A working RSA connection alone does not tell you the key's age. The second is the key exchange. The key-exchange removal can affect a client that has no other key exchange in common with GitHub, regardless of the key's type or age. In our test, CentOS 7's libssh2 1.8.0 failed that way, because the one being removed is the only one it shares with github.com. Git's own ssh command is usually OpenSSH, which GitHub lists as fine from 7.2p1. The breaks we found were in programs that use a library instead: Python code with paramiko, Node code with ssh2, Java with JSch, Go with x/crypto/ssh, PuTTY's plink, and curl or other programs built on libssh2. That includes Debian 12's libssh2, and Debian 12 has long-term support until 30 June 2028. On GitHub Enterprise Server the change comes with version 3.25 instead. To test it, we set our own OpenSSH 10.0 server to github.com's current SSH algorithm lists, removed those two, and connected from 35 client stacks with RSA, ECDSA and Ed25519 keys, twice each; 32 of them worked before the removal. 10 of those 32 broke, all only with the RSA key: PuTTY 0.70 and 0.73 (Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04), paramiko 2.4.2 and 2.8.1, node ssh2 0.8.9 and 1.0.0, the original JSch 0.1.55 (com.jcraft), Go x/crypto from 17 November 2021, and curl with libssh2 1.10.0 (Debian 12) and 1.8.0 (CentOS 7). All five OpenSSH clients we tested kept working. The newest versions we tried of paramiko, node ssh2, Go x/crypto, Ruby net-ssh, PuTTY and libssh2 passed too, and so did the maintained JSch fork com.github.mwiede, unlike the original com.jcraft JSch 0.1.55, the only original JSch version we tried. Every break was below a minimum version in GitHub's table, or was an old version of a library the table does not list. This was our stand-in, not GitHub's server; we will check github.com during the 4 November brownout. We did not test Windows clients, TeamCity, JGit, libgit2 builds, Dropbear or ssh-agent setups. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Update, : from our location, github.com was in the brownout from about 08:30 to 22:00 UTC (we checked every 30 minutes). During it, curl with CentOS 7's libssh2 1.8.0 failed with "curl: (2) Failure establishing ssh session", and old paramiko waited about 40 seconds before printing a misleading key-file error. The other old clients printed the same errors as in our earlier test. We tested with a key GitHub did not know, and we will check again on 9 December.
- How to check
Only remotes that do not start with https:// matter, and git remote -v lists them. ssh-add -l shows the type of each key in your SSH agent, in brackets at the end of its line; ssh-keygen -lf followed by a key file does the same for a key on disk. Ed25519 and ECDSA avoid the SHA-1 RSA change; the client still needs a supported key exchange. So whatever the key, find what makes the connection and its version. The next commands print the installed paramiko, ssh2 and Go x/crypto versions, PuTTY's version and the libssh2 version your curl uses; run each where that tool or project is installed. For Java, look for jsch in mvn dependency:tree or gradle dependencies. Compare the versions with the fix below. A program that bundles its own SSH library will not show up here.
git remote -v ssh-add -l pip show paramiko | grep Version npm ls ssh2 go list -m golang.org/x/crypto plink -V curl -V | grep -o 'libssh2/[0-9.]*'- Fix
Tested fix
Switch to an Ed25519 or ECDSA key. In our test it worked on every stack that can load one, old versions included, and GitHub says these keys keep working. Make one as below, add the .pub file to GitHub as an SSH key or a deploy key, and point your tool at it. The original JSch 0.1.55 loads ECDSA keys but not Ed25519. Or upgrade the client. These versions passed with an RSA key: paramiko 2.9.0, ssh2 1.17.0, the JSch fork com.github.mwiede 0.1.66, Go x/crypto v0.1.0, PuTTY 0.76 and libssh2 1.11.1. GitHub's table asks for Go x/crypto 0.16.0 and PuTTY 0.82, so aim for those or later. CentOS 7's libssh2 1.8.0 loads neither key type, so it has no key workaround: move that job to a newer system. Tested on 21 October against our stand-in server, not GitHub's. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 \ -f ~/.ssh/github_ed25519 cat ~/.ssh/github_ed25519.pubTested
Source: GitHub changelog: Security improvements for SSH (22 September 2026; brownouts 4 November and 9 December, removal 13 January 2027, minimum client versions), GitHub blog: Improving Git protocol security on GitHub (SHA-2 signatures required from 15 March 2022 for RSA keys added on or after 2 November 2021), Debian 12 bookworm release page (long-term support until 30 June 2028). Checked . Link to this entry
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Ruby 7 November 2026
Rails 8.0 security support ends
Rails' maintenance policy lists the 8.0 series as supported for security issues until 7 November 2026, and the 8.1 series until 10 October 2027. For a series it no longer supports, the policy says the Rails team may publish backports of fixes to git, "however there will be no new versions released". On 4 November 2026 the Rails team released 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1 to fix 21 security issues; its announcement says "Security support for the 8.0 series ends on November 7, 2026" and that older versions of Rails are unsupported.
Guide
On Rails 8.0, 7.2 or older? Is your self-hosted Rails app patched: the version check, the ImageMagick conditions and the workarounds Rails publishes.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Rails 8.0 security support ends
- Who is affected
Applications whose bundle resolves Rails 8.0, including self-hosted applications whose release ships it. Rails 7.2, 7.1 and 6.1 are already outside security support: the 4 November release has no fix for them.
- How to check
In the application's Gemfile.lock, read the version on the rails line under specs, or on the railties line if the bundle has no rails gem. A version that starts with 8.0 is on this series. Run the command below in the folder that holds that file: it prints those lines, and nothing for any other version. For an application in a container, run it inside the container in that folder, or read the Gemfile.lock in the application's repository at the release tag your image was built from.
grep -nE '^ {4}(rails|railties) \(8\.0\.' Gemfile.lock- Fix
Guide
Move to Rails 8.1, which the policy lists as supported for security issues until 10 October 2027. For a packaged application, that means a release from its maintainers. We did not test an upgrade.
Source: Rails maintenance policy: "8.0.x - Supported until November 7, 2026" (security issues), Rails security releases: 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1 (4 November 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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Rust 12 November 2026
Rust 1.100.0 becomes stable: scripts that compare versions as text call it too old
Rust 1.100.0 is due to become the stable release on 12 November 2026, the first with a three-digit minor version. A script that compares the rustc version as text or as a decimal number reads 1.100 as older than 1.99, because "1.1" sorts before "1.9" and 1.100 is 1.1 as a decimal, so it stops with a "Rust too old" error. Comparing each part as a whole number accepts it. We ran five text or decimal checks and five whole-number checks against the version strings of rustc 1.99.1, the current 1.100.0 beta and a stable 1.100.0 string we wrote ourselves, since stable is not out yet. All ten accepted 1.99.1; the five text or decimal checks rejected both 1.100 strings, and the five whole-number checks accepted them. We ran them on Linux, and the PowerShell checks in PowerShell 7, not Windows PowerShell 5.1. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Rust 1.100: a few version checks misread it
- Who is affected
Shell, Python, PowerShell and Makefile scripts that read the rustc version and compare it with a minimum version as text or as a decimal. In public GitHub code we found few. Code search returned 3,184 files that read the rustc version near the words minimum, MSRV or too old. Model labellers sorted them, and we ran every check they labelled as failing: at least 215 distinct checks compare the version safely, and 14 distinct scripts, in 61 repositories, reject 1.100. Only 3 of those scripts are in repositories that are not archived and were pushed to in the last 6 months, 5 repositories in all. Most of the 14 are copies of the Windows installer from rustlings 5 and earlier (install.ps1), which prints "Rust version is too old"; one active copy is in the Rust course sunface/rust-course, though its README does not tell readers to run it. Code search ranks best matches and leaves out forks and checks without those words, so these counts are lower bounds for this search, not a rate for all Rust projects. We did not search build scripts of crates on crates.io. The Rust project uses Crater to build and test many crates against each beta, but that does not cover every crate or configuration.
- How to check
From your repository root, list the scripts that read the rustc version, as below, and look at how each one compares it with its minimum. Text comparison (the < test inside [[ ]] in bash, -lt or -gt on strings in PowerShell), decimal comparison (awk, bc, float() in Python) and reading fixed character positions misread 1.100. To try a script before 12 November, run it under rustup's beta toolchain, which already reports the 1.100.0 beta. In our run on Linux, rustup run beta made a text check fail and a sort -V check pass. Checks that read the version through cargo or a variable will not match the search; look for them by hand. The grep only reads files. The next commands download and install the beta toolchain, then run your build script: replace ./build.sh with a build command you trust, and run it in your normal test environment.
grep -rnIE 'rustc +(-vV|-V|--version)' \ --exclude-dir=target \ --exclude-dir=.git . rustup toolchain install beta \ --profile minimal rustup run beta ./build.sh- Fix
Tested fix
Compare the version parts as whole numbers. Take the version from rustc's output, drop any beta or nightly suffix, and compare with sort -V in a shell, [version] in PowerShell or a tuple of integers in Python, as below for a 1.70 minimum. In our runs on Linux, with GNU sort 9.4, Python 3.12 and PowerShell 7.4, each rejected 1.69.0 and accepted 1.70.0, 1.99.1, the 1.100.0 beta, a stable 1.100.0 string and a 1.101.0 nightly. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
# bash V=$(rustc --version | cut -d' ' -f2) V=${V%%-*} printf '%s\n' 1.70.0 "$V" | sort -V -C || exit 1 # PowerShell $v = (rustc --version).Split(" ")[1] $v = [version]($v -replace "-.*") if ($v -lt [version]"1.70") {exit 1} # Python (v = the version text) import sys v = v.split("-")[0] n = tuple(map(int, v.split("."))) if n < (1, 70): sys.exit("too old")Tested
Source: releases.rs: Rust versions ("Beta: 1.100.0 (12 November, 2026)", stable 1.99.1), rustup book: Toolchains (the beta channel and rustup run), Rust Forge: Triaging Crater runs (a Crater run starts as soon as each beta is out), Crater README ("run experiments across parts of the Rust ecosystem"). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 16 November 2026, 00:00 UTC, the time in the API's Sunset header
Langfuse Cloud stops serving its deprecated APIs: old trace, session and metrics reads and trace ingestion fail
16 November 2026 is Langfuse Cloud's cutover to Langfuse v4. From then, Cloud stops serving the public API endpoints that its migration guide lists as deprecated. Reads: GET /api/public/traces, /observations and /sessions (and each one's /{id} form), /metrics and /metrics/daily, /scores and /v2/scores, and the dataset-run endpoints (/datasets/{name}/runs and /dataset-run-items). Writes: POST /dataset-run-items, trace and observation events sent to POST /api/public/ingestion, and the older POST /traces, /spans, /generations and /events (and PATCH /spans and /generations). SDK methods that call these endpoints fail with them, such as client.api.trace.list() in Python SDK v4 and fetchTraces() in JS/TS SDK v5. On 23 October a request to GET /api/public/traces returned a Sunset header of 16 November 2026, 00:00 UTC. Score writes keep working: POST /api/public/scores, and score-create events that older SDKs send to /ingestion. This date is for Langfuse Cloud only. Self-hosted Langfuse has no forced cutover date, and Langfuse says v3 gets security patches through January 2027.
Guide Langfuse's migration guide: every removed endpoint and SDK method with its replacement
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Langfuse Cloud turns off its deprecated APIs
- Who is affected
Code that calls Langfuse Cloud through one of these endpoints or methods: scripts and dashboards that read traces, sessions or daily metrics, exporters that copy traces elsewhere, and tools, proxies or SDKs in other languages that send traces to /ingestion rather than through OpenTelemetry. Langfuse emails the owners and admins of each Cloud project a summary of the actions that project needs, and its migration status page (cloud.langfuse.com/
v4-migration) lists the SDK, API, evaluator and integration actions it detected; if you run a Cloud project, start there. This date is for code that email may not reach: libraries and tools that wrap Langfuse for their own users, public example code that others copy, and self-hosted servers whose owners are choosing when to upgrade. On 23 October we searched public GitHub code for six endpoint paths that the removal touches. 797 repositories matched; 574 of them are not forks, not archived and were pushed to since 1 July. We read a random sample of 10 of the 574. 6 call a removed endpoint: 3 send trace or generation events to /ingestion, and 3 read traces or observations, 2 of them using trace timestamps. The other 4 were documentation, notes or a copy of Langfuse's own server. Within these 574 repositories, the sample gives an estimate of about 340 with a deprecated call site (95% Wilson confidence interval: about 180–480; sample size 10). This is not a census or a lower bound on affected Langfuse Cloud repositories. We retrieved at most 300 files per endpoint search and excluded forks and archived repositories. The search misses private code, paths built at run time, and SDK calls that do not spell out the endpoint path. We did not establish how many of these repositories use Langfuse Cloud rather than self-hosted servers. Executed by us; not independently reproduced. - How to check
If you run a Langfuse Cloud project, open its migration status page first: it lists what Langfuse detected for that project. To check code, run the text search below from your repository root. It lists lines that name a removed endpoint path or call an SDK method that Langfuse's migration guide maps to a replacement. A hit means read the line, not that it breaks: POST /api/public/scores and /ingestion calls that carry only score events match too and keep working, and client.api.scores.get_many() is affected only on Python SDK v4 (getMany() only on JS/TS SDK v5). The search does not see SDK versions, so also look up langfuse in your lock files: Langfuse asks Cloud projects that send traces with its SDKs to move to Python SDK 4.7.0 or later or JS/TS SDK 5.4.0 or later before 16 November. On 23 October the search found every call in the 6 sampled repositories that call a removed endpoint, all 36 deprecated calls we copied from Langfuse's migration guide, and none of 24 replacement calls and look-alikes.
P='api/public/'; E='([^a-zA-Z0-9_-]|$)' N='([^a-zA-Z0-9_]|$)' grep -rnE --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.venv \ --exclude-dir=node_modules \ -e "${P}(traces|observations|sessions|metrics)$E" \ -e "${P}(scores|v2/scores|ingestion|spans)$E" \ -e "${P}(generations|events|dataset-run-items)$E" \ -e "${P}datasets/[^/\"' ]+/runs" \ -e "api\.(trace|sessions)\.(list|get)$N" \ -e "api\.scores\.(get_many|get_by_id)$N" \ -e "api\.scores\.(getMany|getById)$N" \ -e "\.(fetch_traces?|fetch_observations)$N" \ -e "\.(fetch_sessions|fetchTraces?)$N" \ -e "\.(fetchSessions|fetchObservation)$N" \ -e 'legacy\.(observations_v1|observationsV1)\.' \ -e 'legacy\.(metrics_v1|metricsV1)\.' \ -e 'dataset_run_items|datasetRunItems' \ -e '_dataset_runs?\(|DatasetRuns?\(' \ -e '\.datasets\.(get_runs?|getRuns?)\(' \ -e '\.datasets\.(delete_run|deleteRun)\(' \ -e 'ingestion\.batch\(' .- Fix
Guide
Langfuse's migration guide maps each removed endpoint and SDK method to its replacement; we have not run them against Langfuse. Trace, observation and session reads move to Observations API v2 (GET /api/public/v2/observations), which returns one row per observation, not trace objects. Ask for fields=core,basic,trace_context to get the trace name, tags and release on each row, and group rows by traceId to rebuild a trace; a trace's old name filter becomes a filter on the traceName column. Metrics API v2 has no traces view. For trace counts, filter on isRootObservation = true; for cost totals grouped by trace attributes, aggregate observation costs. Its latency metrics describe observations. For trace duration or raw per-trace data, use Observations API v2 and group rows by traceId. Score reads move to GET /api/public/v3/scores, and dataset runs become experiments (GET /api/public/experiments and /experiment-items). To send traces, use Python SDK 4.7.0 or later, JS/TS SDK 5.4.0 or later, or OpenTelemetry to /api/public/otel/v1/traces with the header x-langfuse-ingestion-version: 4. Python SDK v5 and JS/TS SDK v6 drop the old methods; they need Langfuse Cloud or self-hosted Langfuse 4.59.0 or later. Dataset-backed experiment runners in Python SDK v4 and JS/TS SDK v5 still call POST /dataset-run-items themselves; Langfuse's advice there is to keep the SDK updated.
# before (fails on Langfuse Cloud from 16 Nov) curl -G -u "$PK:$SK" "$HOST/api/public/traces" # after: one row per observation; group by traceId curl -G -u "$PK:$SK" "$HOST/api/public/v2/observations" \ --data-urlencode "fields=core,basic,trace_context" \ --data-urlencode "fromStartTime=2026-11-01T00:00:00Z" \ --data-urlencode "toStartTime=2026-11-08T00:00:00Z" # Python SDK v4: client.api.trace.list(...) becomes # client.api.observations.get_many( # from_start_time=..., to_start_time=...)Langfuse's migration guide: every removed endpoint and SDK method with its replacement
Source: Langfuse: How do I migrate off the deprecated Langfuse APIs? (Cloud serves these endpoints until 16 November 2026; replacements; score writes unaffected), Langfuse: How do I make my project ready for the upgrade to Langfuse v4? (emails to project owners and admins, migration status page, SDK floors, no forced date for self-hosted). Checked . Link to this entry
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Data APIs 16 November 2026
USGS starts slowing every WaterServices request ahead of its shutdown
From 16 November 2026, USGS adds a 2-second delay to every request to waterservices.usgs.gov. The delay rises to 10 seconds on 11 January, 30 seconds on 25 January and 60 seconds on 1 February 2027. Requests are also redirected instead of answered for about 24 hours on 27 January and about 48 hours on 15 February.
No tested fix yet USGS migration guide to the new Water Data APIs
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: USGS WaterServices: 2 s delay per request
- Who is affected
Scripts, dashboards and pipelines that call waterservices.usgs.gov, especially those making many requests or running under a timeout.
- How to check
Search your code and configuration for the old host.
grep -rn 'waterservices.usgs.gov' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: USGS: WaterServices degradation and decommission schedule (18 September 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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Browsers 17 November 2026
Chrome 158 stops running XSLT: styled XML pages break
Chrome's deprecation page says that from Chrome 158, due on 17 November 2026, XSLT stops working in Chrome's Stable releases for everyone except sites in Chrome's XSLT origin trial and organisations that keep it on with the XSLTEnabled enterprise policy. Those exceptions end with Chrome 176 on 17 August 2027. An XML file that names an XSL stylesheet in its opening lines (<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" …?>) is then no longer turned into a styled page: readers see the raw XML or an almost empty page. Chrome Beta, Dev and Canary have had XSLT off by default since Chrome 145.
Tested fix
Seeing "This site uses XSLT" on your sitemap? The sitemap file search engines read is unchanged: what each SEO plugin is doing about Chrome 158, and a one-line check.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Chrome 158 stops running XSLT
- Who is affected
People who open these XML pages in Chrome, not the programs that read them: crawlers and OAI-PMH harvesters fetch the XML itself, so the removal does not change what they get. The common cases are styled sitemaps and the OAI-PMH endpoints of research repositories. On 9 October 2026 we found an XSL-styled sitemap on 122 of the 2,642 most popular sites on the Tranco list (we checked /sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml and /wp-sitemap.xml), and an XSLT stylesheet line on 480 of the first 1,500 repository endpoints in an October 2025 copy of the Open Archives Initiative registry (32%). We then opened the first 80 eligible sites from each list, in list order. Of those 160, 5 failed to load and 4 were blank even with XSLT on, which leaves 151. With XSLT off, the text of 149 of the 151 no longer matched the normal page: a similarity score that compares the words in order, where 1 means the same text, fell below 0.5. We did not measure web pages that run XSLT from JavaScript (XSLTProcessor) or Android apps that show pages in a WebView.
- How to check
Open your sitemap or other styled XML page in Chrome Beta, Dev or Canary, which already have XSLT off, or quit Chrome and start it again with the switch below, which is how we ran our test. If you see raw XML or a nearly empty page, the page is affected. To find the files, search your site's XML for the stylesheet line; a sitemap made by a plugin may exist only at its web address, so open that too.
# Chrome switch that turns XSLT off: --disable-features=XSLT # XML files with a stylesheet line: grep -rln --include='*.xml' \ 'xml-stylesheet' .- Fix
Tested fix
For XML pages that people read, add Chrome's polyfill, which runs XSLT in JavaScript and WebAssembly: put xslt-polyfill.min.js from the xslt-polyfill package on your site, then add the element below as the first thing inside the root element, straight after its start tag. In our 9 October 2026 test (Chrome for Testing headless shell 153.0.8010.12 with XSLT switched off to stand in for Chrome 158, and xslt-polyfill 1.0.31), 148 of the 151 pages scored 0.95 or more on that similarity score (98%). Executed by us; not independently reproduced. Those 151 pages were taken in list order and leave out pages that failed or were already blank, so 98% is not a success rate for the web as a whole. We compared text, not layout: most pages move from quirks mode to standards mode, so check spacing and widths by eye. Snags we hit: a root element that closes itself, such as <sitemapindex …/>, needs a separate end tag first; the script must be served as UTF-8, or its built-in WebAssembly fails to load; and stylesheets on another site must allow cross-origin reads (CORS). Take care with XML that programs read. The element becomes part of what crawlers and harvesters receive, and when we checked, it made otherwise valid sitemap, sitemap index and OAI-PMH files fail validation against their published schemas. We did not test real crawlers or harvesters, so add it there only after you have checked that the changed XML, and the programs that read it, accept it. Where that XML must stay valid, leave it as it is and give people a separate HTML page made by running the XSLT on your server, one of the routes on Chrome's page; readers can also add the XSLT browser extension that Chrome's page describes. A sitemap needs no styling for search engines: deleting its stylesheet line keeps every URL, and people then see the XML unstyled.
<script src="/xslt-polyfill.min.js" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ></script>Tested
Source: Chrome for Developers: Removing XSLT for a more secure browser, xslt-polyfill on GitHub: usage and limitations. Checked . Link to this entry
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DuckDB 17 November 2026
DuckDB 1.4 LTS support ends: DuckDB 2.0 drops fetchone() on relations and rejects x -> lambdas
DuckDB 1.4, the long-term support (LTS) release, reaches end of life on 17 November 2026; DuckDB 1.5 is supported until March 2027. DuckDB 2.0.0 came out on 21 October 2026, and on Python 3.11 and newer, pip install duckdb now installs it. In 2.0, a relation (what duckdb.sql(), con.sql() and duckdb.query() return) no longer has fetchone(), fetchmany() or execute(), and the result of con.execute() no longer has fetch_arrow_table(), arrow() or pl(); each call raises AttributeError. In our runs of 1.4.5, 1.5.5 and 1.5.6, fetchone() and fetchmany() on a relation gave no deprecation warning first. In SQL, a lambda written with a single arrow, such as list_transform(l, x -> x + 1), fails with a Binder Error. A database moved the way DuckDB's migration guide shows, with EXPORT DATABASE on 1.x and IMPORT DATABASE on 2.0, does not import if a view or macro uses such a lambda: the import stops with that error, and in our tests no tables were created. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: DuckDB 1.4 LTS ends; 2.0 drops rel.fetchone()
- Who is affected
Nothing stops working on 17 November itself: DuckDB 1.4 stops getting fixes, and code that stays on 1.4 or moves to 1.5 works as before. The changes hit code that runs on 2.0, which includes any project that installs duckdb without an upper version limit on Python 3.11 or newer; on Python 3.10, pip still installs 1.5.6. One more 2.0 change catches the obvious replacement: a con.execute() result that has not been read to its end makes the next con.sql(), duckdb.sql() or duckdb.query() on the same connection fail with a ResourceInUseException, even after fetchone() on a one-row query. DuckDB's Python migration guide describes this; 1.5.6 does not do it. Libraries are affected too. Of the 72 packages among the 15,000 most downloaded from PyPI that list duckdb as a dependency, 26 allow only versions below 2. Six others call a removed method in their latest release as of 22 October: dlt 1.31.0 (DuckLake loads fail, as reported in its issue tracker), ibis-framework 12.0.0 (list_tables() on the DuckDB backend), narwhals 2.27.1 (time-zone-aware DuckDB columns), sqlglot 30.24.0 (DuckDB SQL it generates can contain x -> lambdas), and marimo 0.25.2 and marimo-base 0.25.2 (default database and schema lookups return None without an error). ibis, narwhals and sqlglot have fixes on their main branches that are not yet released; dlt has an open issue; we found no report for marimo. We found these calls by reading each package's source and did not run the packages on 2.0; a source scan finds only direct calls, so there may be more. In a capped sample of public GitHub code, 22 active repositories of user code use single-arrow lambdas; we separated them from copies of DuckDB itself and test data after the search. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
- How to check
Run the text search below from your repository root. It lists Python lines that call fetchone() or fetchmany() at the end of a chain, call execute() on a relation, or call fetch_arrow_table(), arrow() or pl(). For each line, see whether the object is a DuckDB relation, a DuckDB execute() result that is not read to its end, or something else. On the latest releases of the 72 packages it listed 34 of the 35 removed calls we found by reading their source; it missed one where the relation was kept in a variable and fetched on a later line. It also lists many lines that are fine, such as fetchone() in other database libraries. For SQL, DuckDB 1.4 and 1.5 can show the 2.0 lambda error today: run the SET statement at the start of a session, then your queries, views and macros. In our runs on 1.4.5, 1.5.5 and 1.5.6, every single-arrow lambda then failed with the same Binder Error as on 2.0, including one in a view created earlier, while lambda x: lambdas and JSON's -> operator still worked.
# Python (text search): grep -rnE --include='*.py' \ -e '\)\.fetch(one|many)\(' \ -e '(sql|query)\(.*\)\.execute\(' \ -e 'fetch_arrow_table\(' \ -e '\.(arrow|pl)\(\)' . -- SQL, on DuckDB 1.4 or 1.5: SET lambda_syntax= 'disable_single_arrow';- Fix
Tested fix
Read results in a way that works on 1.5 and 2.0 and leaves nothing open: take the first row from con.sql(query).limit(1).fetchall(), read an execute() result with fetchmany() until it returns an empty list, and get Arrow tables from con.sql(query).to_arrow_table(). con.execute(query).fetchone() also works on 2.0, but call con.complete() (2.0 only) before the next con.sql() on that connection. Write SQL lambdas as lambda x: x + 1, which works on 1.4, 1.5 and 2.0; on 2.0, SET lambda_syntax='enable_single_arrow' brings the arrow form back for the session until DuckDB 2.1 removes the setting. To move a database file to 2.0, run that SET before IMPORT DATABASE, or copy the file with COPY FROM DATABASE. A 1.x file opened directly in 2.0 kept its arrow-lambda views working when it was written at the default storage version, but they failed when it was written with STORAGE_VERSION 'v1.3.0' or later, until the same SET was run. Until the libraries you use release fixes, duckdb<2 keeps you on 1.5; it installs 1.5.6 today. We ran each of these on 2.0.0 and the Python lines on 1.5.6 too, each followed by another query on the same connection.
# Python, before (fails on 2.0): row = con.sql(query).fetchone() table = con.execute(query).fetch_arrow_table() # after (1.5 and 2.0): rows = con.sql(query).limit(1).fetchall() row = rows[0] if rows else None table = con.sql(query).to_arrow_table() -- SQL, before (fails on 2.0): SELECT list_transform(l, x -> x + 1) FROM t; -- after (1.4, 1.5 and 2.0): SELECT list_transform(l, lambda x: x + 1) FROM t; -- moving an EXPORT DATABASE folder to 2.0: SET lambda_syntax='enable_single_arrow'; IMPORT DATABASE 'export_dir'; # or stay on 1.5 for now: pip install 'duckdb<2'Tested
Source: DuckDB: Migrating to DuckDB v2.0 (1.4 LTS reaches end of life on 17 November 2026; 1.5 is supported until March 2027; DuckDB 2.1 removes the lambda setting), DuckDB: Migrating Python code to DuckDB 2.0 (removed fetch methods; open execute() results), PyPI: duckdb release history (2.0.0 on 21 October 2026; needs Python 3.11 or newer), dlt issue 4595: DuckLake destination fails on DuckDB 2.0, narwhals pull request 4078: stop using DuckDBPyRelation.fetchone (merged 16 October 2026), sqlglot pull request 8717: DuckDB 2 compatibility fix (merged 21 October 2026), ibis commit 67a069c: the DuckDB backend switches fetch_arrow_table() to to_arrow_table(). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 17 November 2026
Google shuts down Gemini TTS and Live preview models in the Gemini API
Google's Gemini API deprecations page lists 17 November 2026 as the shutdown date for gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts and gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview (replacements gemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts), and for gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview and gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025 (replacement gemini-3.8-live).
No tested fix yet Gemini API deprecations page
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Gemini TTS and Live preview models shut down
- Who is affected
Speech and voice-agent code that uses these preview models, directly or through a library default.
- How to check
Search your code and installed packages for the five model names; pass the replacement model explicitly.
- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: Gemini API deprecations page. Checked . Link to this entry
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CI runners 19 November 2026, the end of a rollout that began on 19 October; a project can switch on any day before
Azure Pipelines moves ubuntu-latest to Ubuntu 26.04: steps that hard-code /home/vsts fail
Microsoft moves the ubuntu-latest image in Azure Pipelines from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 over several weeks, starting 19 October and finishing by 19 November 2026. YAML pipelines that set no pool get the same image. On 26.04 the agent runs as a different user: its home folder and the pipeline workspace move from /home/vsts to /home/runner, and /home/vsts does not exist. Microsoft's announcement does not mention this; a user reported it on 22 October. In public 26.04 jobs we read in two Azure DevOps organizations on 22 and 23 October, the checkout was under /home/runner/work; a 24.04 job in the same build as one of them checked out under /home/vsts/work. We ran common uses of the old path in a copy of the new layout, twice each. These failed: cd, ls or writing a file under /home/vsts/work, running a tool by its full /home/vsts/.local/bin path, mkdir -p under /home/vsts, and a uv or npm cache set to a folder there. Adding /home/vsts/.local/bin to PATH is harmless, because the 26.04 image's PATH already has /home/runner/.local/bin; a pip cache there only makes pip warn and install without its cache. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Azure ubuntu-latest → 26.04: /home/vsts is gone
- Who is affected
Azure DevOps YAML pipelines on Microsoft-hosted ubuntu-latest, or with no pool set, whose scripts, variables or task inputs write a /home/vsts/... path. Jobs pinned to ubuntu-24.04 or ubuntu-22.04, self-hosted agents and steps inside container jobs are not affected by this switch. GitHub Actions is not affected: its runners already use /home/runner. With default settings, a later command that succeeds can hide an earlier failed one: the step passes and the file, folder or cache is simply missing. With set -e, an explicit error check or a task setting such as failOnStderr, the step can fail at that line instead. In public GitHub code, we read 53 files in 43 repositories that mention /home/vsts and had an Azure Pipelines check on their latest default-branch commit, committed since 23 April 2026. We flagged 20 of them, from 12 owners (9 from one owner), as potentially affected: in 15, the flagged line matches a use we ran in a copy of the new layout; in 5, it depends on how a third-party tool handles the missing folder, which we did not test. One is mne-python, where the uv cache setting stops its dependency install. This is the public code we read, not a count of pipelines that will fail; private pipelines were not examined. We did not test Cache@2 paths, Docker volume paths or third-party tasks that take a /home/vsts path.
- How to check
From your repository root, search pipeline files and scripts for the old path, as below. A match alone does not mean a break. For each match in a job on ubuntu-latest or with no pool, look for the uses that failed in our runs: cd, ls or writing a file under /home/vsts/work, running a tool by its full /home/vsts path, mkdir -p there, or a uv or npm cache there. A PATH entry or a pip cache there does not stop the job. Variables set in the Azure DevOps web interface or in variable groups are not in the files, so look there too. Once a job's checkout log shows /home/runner/work, the switch has happened for that pipeline.
grep -rn --exclude-dir=.git \ /home/vsts .- Fix
Tested fix
In script and bash lines, replace /home/vsts with $HOME. In YAML values such as variables:, env: and task inputs, no shell expands $HOME, so use the agent's own variables there, as below, and put a cache in a folder under $(Pipeline.Workspace). Or pin vmImage: ubuntu-24.04 until you have made the change. In our runs, every failing use worked with $HOME in both the old and the new layout. A uv or npm cache set in an environment variable to a folder under the workspace worked in both; set to $HOME/.cache/uv, uv made a folder literally named $HOME inside the checkout. In a public 26.04 job, $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory) became /home/runner/work/1/a. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
# in script: and bash: lines $HOME/.local/bin/mytool # in variables:, env:, inputs # /home/vsts/work/1/s becomes $(Build.SourcesDirectory) # /home/vsts/work/1 $(Pipeline.Workspace) # /home/vsts/work/_temp $(Agent.TempDirectory) # /home/vsts/work/1/a $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory) # a cache, e.g. UV_CACHE_DIR: $(Pipeline.Workspace)/.uv # or, until you have changed it pool: vmImage: ubuntu-24.04Tested
Source: actions/runner-images issue #14748: ubuntu-latest becomes Ubuntu 26.04 (Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions; 19 October to 19 November 2026), actions/runner-images issue #15028: ubuntu-26.04 agent directory structure change (vsts -> runner), reported 22 October 2026, Microsoft Learn: predefined variables in Azure Pipelines (Build.SourcesDirectory, Pipeline.Workspace, Agent.TempDirectory). Checked . Link to this entry
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Tax filing 19 November 2026, 15:00 Eastern (20:00 UTC)
IRS closes FIRE: Publication 1220 files for Forms 1099 can no longer be e-filed
The IRS's FIRE system takes its last information returns at 3 p.m. Eastern time on 19 November 2026 (20:00 UTC). FIRE takes Forms 1097, 1098, 1099, 3921, 3922, 5498 and W-2G as fixed-width files laid out by IRS Publication 1220, and the IRS says Publication 1220 will be made obsolete when FIRE retires. After 1 January 2027, IRIS is the only electronic filing system for information returns, for the current year, prior years and corrections. Two earlier FIRE dates: 1 November is the last day to send test files to FIRE's test system, and 9 November the last day to change an existing FIRE application for a Transmitter Control Code (TCC). The IRS no longer accepts new FIRE TCC applications. Current FIRE users must apply for an IRIS TCC to file tax year 2026 returns in 2027.
Guide
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: IRS FIRE stops taking 1099 e-files
- Who is affected
Code that writes Publication 1220 files, and whoever uploads them to FIRE: in-house payables and payroll exports, and open-source writers such as moov-io/irs (a Go reader and writer for FIRE files, its latest commit, on 23 October 2026, was a dependency update) and sdj0/fire-1099 (Python, last commit in March 2022). IRIS has two ways in, and both use IRS formats of their own, not the Publication 1220 layout. The free Taxpayer Portal takes up to 100 returns at a time, typed in or uploaded as .csv using the IRS's templates. IRIS A2A takes XML from software (IRS Publication 5718); it needs an A2A TCC, an API client ID and successful test transmissions before you can file. We did not count how much code writes Publication 1220 files.
- How to check
From your repository root, search for the Publication 1220 format, FIRE addresses and the moov-io/irs library, as below. A match is worth reading, not proof: a file can describe the format without writing it. No match does not clear you, because a fixed-width writer may carry no such comment, so also ask who uploads your information returns at fire.irs.gov. Then check whether your organization already has an IRIS TCC: the IRS tells current FIRE users to apply for one, and an IRIS TCC can only be used for IRIS.
P='pub(lication)?[ ._-]{0,2}1220' P="$P|fire(\.test)?\.irs\.gov" P="$P|electronically-fire|moov-io/irs|p1220\.pdf" grep -rniIE "$P" --exclude-dir=.git .- Fix
Guide
Apply for an IRIS TCC now. IRS Publication 5903 says the typical application is processed within 45 business days, and it needs at least two Responsible Officials (one for a sole proprietorship, an S corporation or a single-member LLC). Forms 1099-NEC for 2026 are due at the IRS on 1 February 2027, because 31 January is a Sunday. By our count, skipping weekends and federal holidays, an application sent on 24 November 2026 reaches 45 business days on 1 February 2027, the due date itself, which leaves no time to file or, for A2A, to pass the tests; typical is the IRS's word, not a promise. Then choose a route: the Taxpayer Portal for up to 100 returns at a time, or IRIS A2A for software, after its tests. To correct a return first filed through FIRE, file the correction in IRIS: the IRS's August 2026 working-group slides add OtherIntakeSystemInd and OtherIntakeSystemNm (value "FIRE") to the IRIS schema for this, with details due in Publication 5718 and the tax year 2026 schema. We have not filed through IRIS ourselves.
Source: IRS: Filing Information Returns Electronically (FIRE), key dates and retirement, IRS: E-file information returns with IRIS (Taxpayer Portal and A2A), IRS IRIS Working Group meeting, 12 August 2026 (Publication 1220 obsolete; correcting FIRE originals in IRIS), IRS Publication 5903, IRIS Application for TCC tutorial (Rev. 12-2024), IRS: Instructions for Forms 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC (12/2026), filing dates. Checked . Link to this entry
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PHP 19 November 2026, tag move expected
PHP 8.6 Docker images drop pecl and mbstring: pecl install and mb_ calls fail
PHP 8.6.0 is planned for 19 November 2026. Its official Docker images have no pecl or pear command and no built-in mbstring, and every image is built thread-safe (ZTS). A Dockerfile that runs pecl install without installing the pecl command stops with "pecl: not found". PHP code that calls an mb_ function unavailable through either mbstring or a loaded polyfill stops with "Call to undefined function". The php, php:latest and php:8 tags, and currently maintained aliases such as php:fpm, php:alpine and php:8-fpm, are expected to move to 8.6 around that day: last year the 8 and latest tags moved to 8.5 on the day PHP 8.5.0 came out. Tags tied to retired distro variants may stay on older images. Tags that name a minor version, such as php:8.5-fpm, do not move. All three changes held on each 8.6.0RC4 image we tested. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix The tested install-php-extensions step, with the apcu and phpredis errors
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: PHP 8.6 Docker images drop pecl and mbstring
- Who is affected
Docker builds and containers on an official php image that need pecl or pear but do not install those commands, or that call mb_ functions supplied by neither mbstring nor a loaded polyfill. A build on php, php:latest, php:8 or another currently maintained alias is expected to meet this when it next pulls the moved base image, unless it is pinned by an @sha256 digest. A cached base can delay the change. A build that names 8.5 or an earlier minor meets it only when someone changes the tag to 8.6. In a code-search sample of public Dockerfiles that run pecl install on an official php image, 93% of those build stages named a minor version, such as php:8.3-fpm. The image maintainers say the change is permanent; one wrote on the pecl report: "this is intentional and this time it's for keeps." We ran 8.6.0RC4 and 8.5.12 in their cli-trixie, apache-trixie and fpm-alpine3.24 images, pinned by digest. On every 8.6 image pecl and pear were missing, pecl install apcu exited with code 127, mb_strlen() was an undefined function and PHP_ZTS was 1. On 8.5.12 pecl install apcu worked and mbstring was loaded. Composer's dependency resolution for laravel/framework 12 still succeeded on 8.6 without mbstring, because the symfony/
polyfill-mbstring package stands in for it; that was a dry run, and we did not run a Laravel app. We tested release candidate 4, not the final release, and will read the final images and tags on 19 November. There is no separate zts variant for 8.6. We did not test what ZTS changes for extensions, including binary loaders such as ionCube, New Relic or Blackfire. Executed by us; not independently reproduced. - How to check
Run this from your repository root. This text search lists matching PHP image references and pecl or pear calls outside vendor and node_modules. It can miss lowercase FROM instructions, continued lines, tab-separated commands, JSON-form Compose fields and image names supplied entirely by variables; review your Docker and Compose files too. php, php:latest, php:8 and currently maintained aliases such as php:fpm or php:8-fpm are expected to move to 8.6 unless an @sha256 digest follows. Retired distro variants may stay on older images. When a tag comes from an ARG, such as php:${PHP_VERSION}-fpm, read the ARG line too. If your PHP code calls mb_ functions, composer show symfony/polyfill-mbstring tells you whether your packages include the stand-in.
grep -rnIE \ --exclude-dir=vendor \ --exclude-dir=node_modules \ -e '(FROM|image:).*php' \ -e '\b(pecl|pear) ' .- Fix
Tested fix
To get mbstring back, install the Oniguruma headers and build it with the image's own docker-php-ext-install (first lines below). This worked on all three 8.6.0RC4 images we tested, and mb_strlen() ran afterwards. For PECL extensions, install-php-extensions supports the 8.6 release candidates from its version 2.12.5 of 28 October; an installer pinned to an earlier release still stops with "Unsupported PHP version: 8.6". On 29 October, version 2.13.1 installed gd, intl, pdo_mysql, zip, bcmath and mbstring on 8.6.0RC4 Debian and Alpine images, and the PECL extensions mongodb, uuid, xhprof and event. The image has no pecl, so the installer sets up PEAR itself. apcu 5.1.28 and phpredis 6.3.0, their latest releases, still fail to compile on 8.6, with the installer and with PIE 1.5.3: both projects have merged fixes for 8.6 but, as of 30 October, have not released them. If you need apcu, phpredis or another extension whose latest release does not build on 8.6, keep a tag that names 8.5 (last line below). On 8.5.12, pecl install apcu still worked. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
# Debian images: build mbstring RUN apt-get update \ && apt-get install -y libonig-dev \ && docker-php-ext-install mbstring # Alpine images RUN apk add --no-cache oniguruma-dev \ && docker-php-ext-install mbstring # If you need apcu or phpredis FROM php:8.5-fpmThe tested install-php-extensions step, with the apcu and phpredis errors Tested
Source: PHP wiki: PHP 8.6 release schedule (general availability 19 November 2026), docker-library/php pull request 1654: Drop --with-pear with PHP 8.6 (also drops the built-in mbstring), docker-library/php issue 1682: No pecl in 8.6-rc, docker-library/php pull request 1686: all images are always built as zts (8.6+), docker-library/php commit 9ab2e4b: Add PHP 8.5.0 (the 8 and latest tags moved to 8.5 on 20 November 2025), krakjoe/apcu issue 634: Release 5.1.29 in time for PHP 8.6 compatibility, install-php-extensions 2.12.5 release: Add support for PHP 8.6 RC (28 October 2026), install-php-extensions 2.13.1: supported extensions per PHP version. Checked . Link to this entry
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Databases 19 November 2026
postgres:latest becomes 19: unpinned stacks stop starting
PostgreSQL 19 is planned for 19 November 2026 (release candidate 2 on 12 November). When it ships, the official Docker image's postgres, postgres:latest, postgres:alpine, postgres:trixie, postgres:bookworm, postgres:alpine3.24 and postgres:alpine3.23 tags move from 18 to 19. A stack that uses one of those tags and already holds data will not start once it pulls the new image and recreates the database container. In our test the 19 container exited with code 1 ("Error: in 18+ … there appears to be PostgreSQL data in /var/lib/postgresql/18/docker", or "database files are incompatible with server" when PGDATA is set).
Tested fix
The exact errors, what Compose shows, and two upgrades to 19 that ran are in our PostgreSQL 19 Docker guide.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: postgres:latest becomes 19
- Who is affected
Self-hosted stacks that already hold data and use postgres, postgres:latest, postgres:alpine, postgres:trixie, postgres:bookworm, postgres:alpine3.24 or postgres:alpine3.23 (directly or through a registry mirror) without an @sha256 digest. Of 253 projects on the awesome-selfhosted list whose main compose file uses the official postgres image (278 counting test, dev and CI files), 31 use a tag that will move. We then narrowed this to the files a user is likely to copy, after seeing the scan. 9 of those match the two layouts that failed in our test, so existing installs will stop once they pull and recreate on or after 19 November: cal.diy, Hyperswitch, Payload's with-postgres template, Reactive Resume, Grist's Keycloak example, Retrom, Bracket, BookLogr and PodFetch. 4 of these 9 merged a change that moved the volume mount for PostgreSQL 18 (October 2025 to August 2026) and kept the moving tag. We read each project's compose files at its head on 19 October 2026; we did not read every install or run the projects themselves.
- How to check
Run this in the folder with your compose file. A line printed means that service moves to 19 on 19 November; it resolves ${VARIABLES} first and also catches mirrors such as public.ecr.aws/docker/library/postgres. For a service with build: instead of image:, read its Dockerfile FROM line: FROM postgres with no number, or with one of the tags above, moves too.
docker compose config --images | grep -E '(^|/)postgres(:(latest|trixie|bookworm|alpine|alpine3\.2[34]))?$'- Fix
Tested fix
Pin the major your database runs today: postgres:18 if it runs 18 (or 18-alpine, 18-trixie, 18-bookworm). We tested this with two 1,000-row 18.6 databases, one in the default layout and one with PGDATA set: 19 RC 1 refused both, and both opened again on postgres:18 with all 1,000 rows. Upgrade to 19 later with pg_upgrade or a dump and restore. Do not run docker compose down -v as a fix: it can delete the database volume.
image: postgres:18Tested
Source: PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 released (15 October 2026), with the planned general availability date, Docker Hub: postgres official image, supported tags and the PGDATA change in 18 and above. Checked . Link to this entry
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DNS 24 November 2026
Quad9 leaves France: a default AdGuard Home install stops resolving names there
Quad9, the public DNS resolver at 9.9.9.9, announced on 22 October 2026 that it will withdraw its services from France as of Tuesday 24 November, because of a French court order. It has not said how: a user in France might get no answer, a refused connection or a refusal message. AdGuard Home's install wizard (v0.107.79, the current release) sets Quad9 as the only upstream DNS server and the only bootstrap DNS server, with no fallback. We ran that default configuration with Quad9 made unreachable in four ways (packets dropped, connections rejected, REFUSED answers, and HTTP 451 from its DNS-over-HTTPS address). From a fresh start, 0 of 20 names resolved in every case, each with SERVFAIL, in two runs. On a running server, names already in the cache kept working and new names failed. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Quad9 leaves France; AdGuard Home default fails
- Who is affected
People in France who run AdGuard Home with the DNS settings its install wizard chose, and every device that uses it as its DNS server. A working system resolver on the same machine does not help, because AdGuard Home does not use it for these lookups. Two other setups still depend on Quad9. An upstream written as a hostname, such as https://cloudflare-dns.com/
dns-query, with the default bootstrap servers kept working while it ran but resolved 0 of 20 names after a restart. Adding a fallback DNS server helps only partly: it rescued a fresh start, but on a running server new names still failed when Quad9 dropped packets (no answer within 5 seconds) or answered REFUSED (AdGuard Home passed the refusal on to clients). Any other resolver or device in France that sends its queries to Quad9 (9.9.9.9, 149.112.112.112 or dns.quad9.net) loses that service too; we tested only AdGuard Home. Of 685 public AdGuardHome.yaml files we read on GitHub, 120 (18%) use Quad9 as their only upstream, 80 of them with the wizard's settings unchanged; these are published configs, not a count of installs, and not specific to France. Router, NAS and add-on builds that include AdGuard Home may ship other defaults; we did not test them. - How to check
Open Settings, then DNS settings (in French: Paramètres, then Paramètres DNS), and read the Upstream DNS servers and Bootstrap DNS servers lists. You are affected if every general upstream server (a line without [/domain/] in front) is Quad9 (9.9.9.x, 149.112.112.x, 2620:fe:: addresses or a quad9.net name), or if your upstream servers are written as hostnames and every bootstrap server is a Quad9 address. If you manage the file instead, the command below prints the same lists from AdGuardHome.yaml (in the official Docker image it is in /opt/adguardhome/conf); if upstream_dns_file is set, the upstream list is in that file.
# in AdGuardHome.yaml's folder: awk '/^ [a-z]+_dns(:|_file)/ { p=1; print; next } p && /^ - / { print; next } { p=0 }' AdGuardHome.yaml- Fix
Tested fix
Before 24 November, in Settings, then DNS settings (Paramètres, then Paramètres DNS), replace the Quad9 entry under Upstream DNS servers (Serveurs DNS upstream) with a resolver you trust that is not Quad9, written as an IP address (for example 1.1.1.1, or the DNS-over-HTTPS form below), and click Apply (Appliquer). If you want to keep an upstream written as a hostname, also set Bootstrap DNS servers (Serveurs DNS d'amorçage) to non-Quad9 IP addresses. In our runs, both setups resolved every name in all four withdrawal cases, from a fresh start and on a running server. We also made each change, including a plain 1.1.1.1, on a running default install through the API that the settings page uses, then dropped or rejected Quad9 traffic and restarted AdGuard Home: new names resolved before and after the restart, and the change was saved. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 was our test stand-in; any non-Quad9 resolver is the same change. A fallback DNS server alone is not enough. If you edit AdGuardHome.yaml instead, the keys are upstream_dns and bootstrap_dns; restart AdGuard Home afterwards.
# Upstream DNS servers, default: https://dns10.quad9.net/dns-query # replace with a non-Quad9 IP: https://1.1.1.1/dns-query # or, for a hostname upstream, set # Bootstrap DNS servers to IPs: 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1Tested
Source: Quad9: Farewell, France (withdrawal of Quad9 services from France as of Tuesday, November 24), AdGuard Home v0.107.79 source: default upstream dns10.quad9.net and Quad9-only bootstrap servers. Checked . Link to this entry
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R 25 November 2026
Bioconductor 3.24: fresh R 4.6 installs fail for packages missing from it, including some the removal list does not name
Bioconductor plans to release version 3.24, for R 4.6, on Wednesday 25 November 2026. From then, BiocManager::install() in an R 4.6 library that is not already on a Bioconductor version (a new laptop, a CI job, a Docker build, a course image) installs from 3.24, and a package that is not in 3.24 fails with "package 'X' is not available for Bioconductor version '3.24'". Libraries already on 3.23 keep working until someone upgrades them. Bioconductor's removed-packages page lists 54 packages as deprecated in 3.23 and to be removed in 3.24. On 25 October we compared that list with the source package indexes that BiocManager reads: 28 of the 54 were already missing from 3.23, and 47 packages that are in 3.23 were missing from the 3.24 index without being on the list. Most of the 47 are rarely downloaded. The exceptions are decoupleR and two packages that depend on it, dorothea and progeny. decoupleR fails R CMD check on all three of Bioconductor's 3.24 builders, its last change on Bioconductor's development branch was on 28 April 2026, and in December 2025 its maintainers set its GitHub repository to ask people to open issues in the Python decoupler repository instead, saying the R repository is no longer maintained. Bioconductor's deadline for packages to pass build and check is 20 November. These packages can still be fixed and added before the release; this entry says what was missing on 25 October, not what Bioconductor will remove. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Bioconductor 3.24: some packages fail to install
- Who is affected
R 4.6 users who install Bioconductor packages from source into a library that is not already on 3.23 after 25 November: Linux machines, CI jobs, Docker builds, and course or core-facility images that run BiocManager::install() without a version. In Bioconductor's download statistics for January to July 2026, decoupleR averaged about 3,250 distinct IP addresses a month, dorothea about 2,000 and progeny about 1,400; these include mirrors, CI and bots, so they are not counts of people. On Windows and macOS, 14 of the 47 still had an older binary package that may install; we did not test those platforms. Installs that ask for version = "3.23" and existing 3.23 libraries are not affected until they are upgraded. R 4.5 stays on Bioconductor 3.22. This says nothing about the scientific quality of any package.
- How to check
Run the lines below in R 4.6, in the library you want to check, with BiocManager installed. They list the Bioconductor packages installed there that are missing from the 3.24 index; until 25 November that is Bioconductor's development version. An empty result means nothing installed is missing today. Packages can still be added or dropped before the release, so run it again after 20 November. On 25 October, in a 3.23 library with BiocGenerics and decoupleR installed, it printed only decoupleR. It finds Bioconductor packages by the git_url field that Bioconductor's builds add. It does not check dependencies: on 25 October, 12 packages were in the 3.24 index but could not be installed because a package they need was missing. We ran it on Linux only, with BiocManager 1.30.27; on Windows and macOS it reads the binary package index, which we did not test.
ip <- installed.packages(fields = "git_url") bioc <- rownames(ip)[grepl("git.bioconductor.org", ip[, "git_url"], fixed = TRUE)] nxt <- rownames(available.packages(repos = BiocManager::repositories(version = "3.24"))) sort(setdiff(bioc, nxt))- Fix
Tested fix
To keep a package that is missing from 3.24, move the library to 3.23 first, then install the package. The one-line pin, BiocManager::install("decoupleR", version = "3.23"), stops by design with "To use Bioconductor version '3.23', first downgrade … packages with BiocManager::install(version = '3.23')" and installs nothing. The two commands below installed decoupleR and its 30 dependencies into a new library, and later install() calls in that library stayed on 3.23. We ran them on Linux in R 4.6.1 with BiocManager 1.30.27, using a copy of Bioconductor's version file edited so that 3.24 is the release, because 3.24 is not out yet. Bioconductor stops building 3.23 on 9 November, so this keeps an analysis installing; it does not bring later fixes. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
BiocManager::install(version = "3.23", ask = FALSE) BiocManager::install("decoupleR", version = "3.23", ask = FALSE, update = FALSE)Tested
Source: Bioconductor 3.24 release schedule (release on 25 November, R 4.6; build and check deadline 20 November), Bioconductor: Removed packages ("Packages deprecated in Bioconductor 3.23 (to be removed in 3.24)"), Bioconductor 3.24 build and check report for decoupleR (ERROR on all three builders; last commit 28 April 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 30 November 2026
Anthropic retires Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-
20250929) on the Claude API On 30 September 2026 Anthropic announced that claude-sonnet-4-5-
20250929 will be retired from the Claude API on 30 November 2026; the recommended replacement is claude-sonnet-5-5. Anthropic's versioning page says the alias claude-sonnet-4-5 resolves to the most recent dated 4.5 snapshot, which is this one; the notice does not state the alias's own retirement date. No tested fix yet Claude model deprecations page (entry of 30 September 2026)
Anthropic Python SDK 1.0 and 2.0 errors: temperature TypeError fixes
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Claude Sonnet 4.5 retired from the Claude API
- Who is affected
Code that sends claude-sonnet-4-5-
20250929 or the alias claude-sonnet-4-5 to the Claude API. Bedrock and Vertex AI follow their own schedules. - How to check
Search your code and installed packages for claude-sonnet-4-5; pass the replacement model explicitly.
- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: Claude model deprecations page (entry of 30 September 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 30 November 2026
OpenAI shuts down the v1/prompts API, the Evals dashboard and API, and Agent Builder
OpenAI's deprecations page schedules the v1/prompts API and reusable prompt objects, the Evals dashboard and API (existing evals become read-only on 31 October 2026), and Agent Builder to shut down on 30 November 2026. ChatKit remains available.
No tested fix yet OpenAI deprecations page (entries of 3 June 2026)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI ends prompts API, Evals and Agent Builder
- Who is affected
Applications that fetch reusable prompt objects at run time, eval pipelines on the OpenAI Evals API, and workflows built in Agent Builder. In a 20 October 2026 scan of public GitHub code, we estimate that dozens of active public codebases (about 40; an estimate from two labelled samples totalling 52 files, range roughly 20 to 65) contain code that sends a stored prompt ID (pmpt_…) to OpenAI. The confirmed examples we inspected included small apps and bots. The Kognetiks Chatbot plugin for WordPress (500+ active installs) accepts pmpt_ IDs and calls hosted prompts "a temporary bridge until 30 November 2026". For Evals, 458 of 493 (93%) counted files that call evals.runs.create contained Azure-related markers in a post hoc check. In two inspected samples, 44 of 48 files were Azure AI Foundry callers; three were documentation and one was a copied OpenAI cookbook notebook. This OpenAI notice does not cover Azure AI Foundry's OpenAI-compatible evals. Six active codebases matched our hosted ChatKit search; this is not a count of Agent Builder users. Counts independently rerun; usage estimates come from sampled code inspection, not observed deployments. We read public default branches only, so IDs kept in secrets, environment files or databases do not show up.
- How to check
Search your code, and your config and environment values, for pmpt_, /v1/prompts and a prompt object in Responses API requests. For Evals, search for evals.create and evals.runs.create, then check where the client points: a client on api.openai.com is affected; one pointed at an Azure AI Foundry project endpoint is not covered by this notice. OpenAI's migration guides are linked from its deprecations page.
grep -rnE --exclude-dir=node_modules \ -e 'pmpt_|/v1/prompts' \ -e 'evals\.(runs\.)?create' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: OpenAI API deprecations: entries of 3 June 2026, WordPress.org: Kognetiks Chatbot plugin. Checked . Link to this entry
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December 2026
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GIS During December 2026
ArcGIS Online: Esri retires 1,121 Living Atlas items in December 2026, and maps that still use them lose those layers
Esri tags the ArcGIS Living Atlas items it will retire this December with "retiring-2026-12". On 26 October 2026 a public ArcGIS Online search for that tag returned 1,143 items; 1,121 of them are Esri's own items marked Deprecated, and the other 22 are other users' items that carry the tag without a notice. 620 of Esri's 1,121 belong to its demographics account. Others include USA Parks, Active Wildfires in Canada, National Water Model forecasts, World Time Zones and HYCOM ocean forecasts. 1,120 of the 1,121 descriptions carry a retirement notice naming December 2026 (1,119 in English and one in Spanish); the remaining item says Fall 2026. For example "This item is in mature support as of October 2024 and will retire in December 2026." The notices give the month, not a day. Esri announced its previous batch as unavailable after 10 December 2025. In 691 of the 1,121 notices Esri says "A replacement item has not been identified." Esri's help says items retired from ArcGIS Online "will no longer work in existing maps and apps". Earlier retirements show what that looks like. The old USA_Counties feature service that Esri ran answers "Invalid URL" today while its replacement works, and on 26 October 10 of the 2,814 most-viewed public web maps from accounts whose names do not start with "Esri" still used it. Those maps still open, without the county layer. Executed by us on 26 October; not independently reproduced.
Guide
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: ArcGIS: 1,121 Living Atlas items retire
- Who is affected
Owners of ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise maps, apps and dashboards that use one of these items, and anyone who embeds or links to such a map. On 26 October, 5 of the 2,814 most-viewed public web maps from accounts whose names do not start with "Esri" (0.18%) used a retiring item; 3 of the 5 are public wildfire maps that use USA Parks. We can only see public maps. Most retiring items are demographic layers, which we expect are used mainly in maps inside organisations, so public maps probably understate how many maps are affected.
- How to check
Each retiring item's page in ArcGIS Online shows a Deprecated badge and Esri's retirement notice, also to visitors who are not signed in. For a public web map, the Python lines below list every layer whose item is tagged retiring-2026-12 and marked Deprecated. They need Python 3 and no packages or sign-in. Give the map's item ID, the 32-character id= value in its address. They read only layers that the map adds by item ID, not layers added by URL alone. For an app or dashboard, give the web map inside it. A private map, or an item that is not a web map, stops with "not a public web map". On 26 October it printed USA Parks for a public wildfire map that we knew used it, and printed nothing for a map with no retiring layers. Run it before December: once Esri removes a retired item, these lines no longer list it.
import json, re, sys, urllib.request A = "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest" A += "/content/items/" def get(path): u = A + path + "?f=json" with urllib.request.urlopen(u) as r: return json.load(r) mid = sys.argv[1] if get(mid).get("type") != "Web Map": sys.exit("not a public web map: " + mid) m = json.dumps(get(mid + "/data")) ids = re.findall(r'"itemId": "(\w{32})"', m) for i in sorted(set(ids)): it = get(i) if ("retiring-2026-12" in it.get("tags", []) and it.get("contentStatus") == "deprecated"): print("RETIRING", i, it["title"])- Fix
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Where the item's notice says a new version is available, Esri recommends updating your maps and apps to use it; look for it from the old item's page. After switching, check that the layer's pop-ups and symbols still work, because we did not compare old and new items. Where the notice says no replacement has been identified (691 items), remove the layer or find other data before December. We did not test any replacement.
Source: ArcGIS Online public search for items tagged retiring-2026-12 (1,143 results on 26 October, 1,121 of them Esri's, marked Deprecated), Esri item USA Parks, with its retirement notice ("will retire in December 2026"), Esri help: ArcGIS Living Atlas content life cycles ("will no longer work in existing maps and apps"), Esri blog: What's Retiring in December 2025? (archived copy; "no longer be available to use after December 10th, 2025"), Old Esri USA_Counties feature service (answers "Invalid URL"). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 1 December 2026
OpenAI removes gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest from its API
On 2 June 2026 OpenAI announced that gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest will be removed from the API on 1 December 2026; the recommended replacements are gpt-image-2.6-sunburst or gpt-image-2.6-flare.
No tested fix yet OpenAI deprecations page (GPT Image entry of 2 June 2026)
What the 23 October shutdown printed, and a check for your installed packages, are in our OpenAI shutdown guide.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI removes older GPT Image models
- Who is affected
Image-generation code that names these models.
- How to check
Search your code and installed packages for the three names; pass the replacement model explicitly.
- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: OpenAI API deprecations: GPT Image entry of 2 June 2026. Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 11 December 2026
OpenAI removes GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, GPT-5 nano, GPT-5 pro, o3 and o3-pro from its API, short names included
On 11 June 2026 OpenAI announced that 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 and o3-pro-2025-06-10 will be removed from the API on 11 December 2026. The recommended replacements are gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna. When we read it on 25 October, OpenAI's table also listed the short names gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-pro, o3 and o3-pro next to these snapshots, the same way it listed gpt-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo before they stopped working on 23 October; on 18 and 23 October it listed only the snapshots. 11 of the 12 listed libraries send one of those short names, so plan for them to stop working on 11 December.
No tested fix yet OpenAI deprecations page (entry of 11 June 2026)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI removes GPT-5 and o3, short names too
- Who is affected
Code that calls OpenAI through a library without passing a model. On 18 October we read the latest release of the 252 packages among the 15,000 most-downloaded on PyPI that depend directly on the OpenAI, Anthropic or Google SDKs. 12 of them send one of these models by default when you don't pass a model, among them google-adk (OpenAI Responses integration), haystack-ai (OpenAI chat generators), mem0ai (LLM reranker), opik (evaluation judge models), autoevals (RAGAS scorers) and marker-pdf (OpenAI service). One names a dated snapshot from the notice (shiny, AI test generator with the openai provider); the other 11 send only the bare names. The full list gives each package's file and line. Callers who pass model= are not affected by that default; Azure deployments follow Azure's own schedule.
- How to check
In this order: (1) open your OpenAI usage dashboard grouped by model, which shows the library calls that actually ran; (2) for each of these models you see there, call GET /v1/models/<id> and read shutdown_date; (3) with your project's Python environment active, search its site-packages for these model names with the command below, or pass model= explicitly.
grep -rnE --include='*.py' \ "[\"'](openai/)?\ (gpt-5(-mini|-nano|-pro)?|o3(-pro)?)\ (-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?\ [\"']" \ "$(python3 -c 'import sysconfig print(sysconfig.get_paths()["purelib"])')"- Fix
No tested fix yet
The 12 libraries: version, model, role, file and line
Paths are relative to site-packages, with line numbers from the version we read on 18 October 2026; they can move in later releases. Listed: the 12 packages that two independent readings of the code, made without seeing each other's labels, both marked as sending one of these models by default.
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google-adk 2.12.0 Bare name
gpt-5OpenAI Responses integration model defaultgoogle/adk/ integrations/ openai/ _openai_responses_llm.py:1120 -
autoevals 0.4.0 Bare name
gpt-5-nanoRAGAS scorers' fallback model when no model and no init(default_model=) is setautoevals/ragas.py:135 -
mem0ai 2.2.1 Bare name
gpt-5-miniLLM reranker model defaultmem0/configs/ rerankers/ llm.py:22 -
opik 2.2.103 Bare name
gpt-5-nanoLiteLLMChatModel default (evaluation judge model)opik/evaluation/ models/ litellm/ litellm_chat_model.py:56 Also
gpt-5-nanosuite LLM-judge defaultopik/evaluation/ suite_evaluators/ llm_judge/ config.py:21 Also
openai/gpt-5sycophancy metric defaultopik/evaluation/ metrics/ llm_judges/ syc_eval/ metric.py:73 -
inspect-evals 0.25.0 Bare name
openai/gpt-5-nanograder default (instrumentaleval)inspect_evals/instrumentaleval/ instrumentaleval.py:24 -
haystack-ai 3.4.0 Bare name
gpt-5-miniOpenAIChatGenerator model defaulthaystack/components/ generators/ chat/ openai.py:124 Also
gpt-5-miniOpenAIResponsesChatGenerator model defaulthaystack/components/ generators/ chat/ openai_responses.py:127 The Azure generator's deployment default is not counted.
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gpt-5-2025-08-07AI test generator default when the provider is openai (default provider is anthropic)shiny/pytest/ _generate/ _main.py:34 -
vanna 2.0.2 Bare name
gpt-5OpenAI integration default (OPENAI_MODEL env fallback)vanna/integrations/ openai/ llm.py:53 Also
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geneva 0.17.0 Bare name
gpt-5-miniOpenAI UDF model defaultgeneva/udfs/ openai.py:461 Also
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fast-agent-mcp 0.10.46 Bare name
gpt-5-miniOpenAI provider fallback modelfast_agent/llm/ provider/ openai/ llm_openai.py:91 -
marker-pdf 2.0.0 Bare name
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cognee 1.6.5 Bare name
openai/gpt-5-miniLoCoMo eval answer-model defaultcognee/eval_framework/ locomo/ run_locomo_eval.py:56
Source: OpenAI API deprecations: entry of 11 June 2026 (GPT-5 and o3 snapshots, shutdown 11 December 2026), OpenAI model page: GPT-5 (marked Deprecated, one snapshot). Checked . Link to this entry
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Data APIs 16 December 2026
Socrata removes its SODA1 API: rows.csv download links stop working
Tyler Technologies removes Socrata's SODA1 API on 16 December 2026. Links of the form /api/views/{dataset-id}/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD stop working; the documented replacement, export.csv, keeps column names but can turn numbers into formatted text.
Tested fix Replacement URL plus pandas and R code that keeps the old column names and numbers
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Socrata removes SODA1 rows.csv downloads
- Who is affected
Scripts, notebooks and dashboards that download open-data portals' rows.csv files. In 65 of 120 popular datasets we sampled, export.csv turned at least one plain-number column into formatted text.
- How to check
Search your code for SODA1 download links, then paste each one into the checker on the guide page.
grep -rn 'accessType=DOWNLOAD' .
Source: Tyler Technologies (Socrata): Deprecation Roadmap. Checked . Link to this entry
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Ruby 25 December 2026, expected (Ruby's usual Christmas release; not announced)
Ruby 4.1 (expected 25 December): gems with old C extensions stop installing
Ruby 4.1.0 is expected on 25 December 2026. Every new Ruby version from 3.0 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2025 came out on 25 December, but Ruby has not announced this date. Ruby 4.1 removes C functions that have been deprecated for years, among them the untyped data-object functions such as Data_Wrap_Struct and Data_Get_Struct, the taint macros and rb_iterate, so gems whose native extension still uses them stop installing or loading. We attempted installs and three candidate require names for 165 native-extension gems among the top 3,000 by all-time downloads, using an October 2026 snapshot. Twenty-two installed on Ruby 4.0.7 and showed a build, load or native-extension regression on 4.1.0-preview1; this includes atomic's fallback to pure Ruby. We expect 21 of these regressions on the final release, seven among the top 1,000: eventmachine, thin, kostya-sigar, yajl-ruby, hiredis, therubyracer and ffi-yajl. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Ruby 4.1 (expected): old native gems fail
- Who is affected
Apps and images that install one of these gems on Ruby 4.1. Besides the seven above, they are cbor, timfel-krb5-auth, atomic, iconv, hpricot, rblineprof, zookeeper, ruby-stemmer, panko_serializer, algorithms, ruby-debug-ide, debase, bson_ext and numo-narray. Most fail at gem install with a compile error. panko_serializer and rblineprof install, then fail at require with "undefined symbol: Data_Wrap_Struct". atomic loaded after warning that it was using its pure-Ruby implementation; we did not measure its speed. thin fails through eventmachine and ruby-debug-ide through debase; bson_ext, debase and numo-narray break on other changes to Ruby's C interface. rinku failed with "undefined symbol: ruby_abi_version". Ruby's abi.h says released versions do not define this preview ABI number, so we infer this failure will not affect the final release; we did not test a final-release build. We exclude rinku from the 21 expected regressions. Two more changes reach apps without these gems. tsort moves from a default gem to a bundled gem, so under bundle exec it must be in the resolved bundle, either directly or through a dependency. Without it, our preview probes for molinillo 0.8.0, mobility 1.3.2, packwerk 3.3.1 and facter 2.5.7 raised "cannot load such file -- tsort". CocoaPods 1.17.0 installs that molinillo without tsort; we did not run CocoaPods itself. And for 14 of the 26 popular gems that ship ready-built Linux binaries, the latest x86_64 Linux binary metadata excludes Ruby 4.1: nokogiri, ffi, pg, google-protobuf, prism, grpc, sqlite3, commonmarker, prometheus-client-mmap, re2, gitlab-glfm-markdown, tiny_tds, code_ownership and tiktoken_ruby. A compatible source package may be selected instead; building it requires a compiler and any required development libraries. Official Ruby slim images omit build tools by default, so check your build environment before upgrading. We attempted source installs and three candidate require names in the official ruby:4.0.7 and ruby:4.1.0-preview1 images on Linux x86_64 with GCC 12. The protocol accepts a successful install when none of the three names loads on either version; 17 of the 118 gems with no detected regression had that limitation. Twenty-one gems failed on the baseline too, for mixed reasons including version constraints, API errors and missing libraries; four builds timed out. Those results do not establish Ruby 4.1 compatibility. We tested latest releases, not older locked versions, and preview1, not final. The baseline packwerk and facter probes ended with unrelated private-constant and wrong-path errors after reaching the tsort warning; their preview LoadErrors diagnose the missing tsort, not a complete application test. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
- How to check
Run this in the folder with your Gemfile.lock; it only reads the file. It prints each of the 21 gems, and molinillo, mobility, packwerk and facter, that your lockfile installs; gems you already pinned with a git line show up too. For the tsort error, a tsort gem spec in the resolved bundle can satisfy this dependency; a mention of tsort alone does not prove that it is available to the running bundle. Also look for the 14 gems with ready-built binaries if you build on an official Ruby slim image.
for g in eventmachine thin \ kostya-sigar yajl-ruby hiredis \ therubyracer ffi-yajl cbor \ timfel-krb5-auth atomic iconv \ hpricot rblineprof zookeeper \ ruby-stemmer panko_serializer \ algorithms ruby-debug-ide \ debase bson_ext numo-narray \ molinillo mobility packwerk \ facter; do grep -nE "^ {4}$g \(" Gemfile.lock done- Fix
Tested fix
Upgrade each gem when its maintainers release a fix. eventmachine, thin, yajl-ruby and panko_serializer have fixed this on their main branch but not released it; eventmachine's last release was in May 2018. Until then, pin the fixed source: copy the lines below for the gems you use into your Gemfile, replacing their existing gem lines, and run bundle install. thin needs both the thin and the eventmachine lines; with only the eventmachine line, thin 2.0.1 still fails. A git pin is a stopgap: it needs git at install time, and it installs code that is not a rubygems.org release. For the tsort error, add gem "tsort", the last line below; that fixed molinillo and mobility. For the other 17 gems we have no tested fix. Our source scan found removed-API identifiers in 12 default-branch checkouts, which we did not build; ruby-debug-ide depends on debase; and our metadata lookup found no GitHub source repository for four gems. Replace them, or stay on Ruby 4.0 until a fixed release ships. We tested each fix on 4.1.0-preview1, and on 4.0.7 as a check, with bundle install and a short script that loads the gem; the released eventmachine, yajl-ruby and panko_serializer failed on the preview in the same run. With both pins, thin installed and Thin::HttpParser.new succeeded on both tested Rubies. The smoke script then failed at an unrelated Thin::VERSION::STRING expression with TypeError, so this is evidence for native parser loading, not a passing complete smoke script. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
gem "eventmachine", git: "https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine.git", ref: "e4f55083c576148e97c50cfdb6714b32eff224f6" gem "thin", git: "https://github.com/macournoyer/thin.git", ref: "e7886a9bca2742586da74e06fffdd2093cc3a397" gem "yajl-ruby", git: "https://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby.git", ref: "6501652d113557d976676134056aa983e7863020" gem "panko_serializer", git: "https://github.com/yosiat/panko_serializer.git", ref: "9267e19d779a05eae16ce0a2b2e36c3907c22e75" gem "tsort"Tested
Source: ruby-lang.org: Ruby 4.1.0-preview1 Released (12 October 2026; removed C APIs; tsort promoted from a default gem to a bundled gem), Ruby issue tracker: Feature #21768, Remove deprecated functions (target version 4.1), ruby-lang.org: Ruby Releases (3.0.0 to 4.0.0, each on 25 December), rubygems.org: eventmachine versions (latest 1.2.7, 12 May 2018). Checked . Link to this entry
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Feature flags 31 December 2026, between 09:00 and 17:00 UTC
LaunchDarkly REST API: old versions stop working
LaunchDarkly retires every REST API version except 20240415 on 31 December 2026, in a window from 09:00 to 17:00 UTC (01:00 to 09:00 PST). Its notice says that after this date, all requests made to retired versions will stop working. Version 20240415 pages its list calls: List feature flags returns 20 flags unless you ask for more (limit goes up to 100), and the lists of segments, custom roles, access tokens and workflows page too. This is the REST API only; LaunchDarkly says no SDKs are being deprecated.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: LaunchDarkly retires old REST API versions
- Who is affected
Scripts and integrations that call app.launchdarkly.com/
api/ v2 with an LD-API-Version header older than 20240415, or with no header and an access token set to an older version, stop working on 31 December. Code that moves to 20240415 without paging gets only the first page of each list: 20 flags by default, with no error. New access tokens default to 20240415, so a feature-flag list call with no header and no limit returns at most 20 flags. LaunchDarkly's generated API clients (launchdarkly-api for Python, api-client-go for Go) need version 21 or later to use 20240415. - How to check
From your repository root, search for REST API calls and generated clients. Every call should send LD-API-Version: 20240415, and every list call should repeat with offset raised by limit until items comes back empty. Code that builds the URL from its own base variable will not match the first search; look for it by hand.
grep -rnE 'api/v2/(flags|segments|roles|tokens)' . grep -rnE 'launchdarkly-api|api-client-go' .- Fix
Tested fix
Send the header on every call and page through each list. The code below lists every flag in a project in Python and needs the Requests package installed (pip install requests); PROJECT is your project key and TOKEN your access token. Segments (limit up to 50), custom roles and access tokens page the same way. We tested it only on a local mock of the paging LaunchDarkly documents, not on LaunchDarkly's servers: with 57 flags, a single 20240415 request returned 20 and this loop returned all 57; with 250 flags it returned all 250, 100 at a time.
import requests url = "https://app.launchdarkly.com" url += f"/api/v2/flags/{PROJECT}" headers = { "Authorization": TOKEN, "LD-API-Version": "20240415", } flags, offset = [], 0 while True: q = {"limit": 100, "offset": offset} r = requests.get( url, params=q, headers=headers) r.raise_for_status() items = r.json()["items"] if not items: break flags += items offset += 100Tested
Source: LaunchDarkly status: Planned Upcoming API Versions Retirement (posted 25 August 2025), LaunchDarkly docs: API migration guide to version 20240415. Checked . Link to this entry
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January 2027
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Time zones 1 January 2027, 00:00 local
The first hour of 2027 lands in 2026 in Microsoft's new Canadian time zones: SQL Server 2025 CU10 on Linux and .NET Framework
In Microsoft's new Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia Standard Time zones, SQL Server 2025 CU10 on Linux turns the hour after midnight on 1 January 2027 into 23:00 to 23:59 on 31 December, at the old offset, and a local 00:30 on 1 January comes back dated 31 December. Anything that groups converted times by day or year files that hour under 2026. A .NET maintainer reproduced the same hour in .NET Framework's TimeZoneInfo on Windows.
Tested fix Tested workaround for SQL Server: apply the fixed offset for times from 1 November 2026
Guide: Canada's time change in databases, with checks and tested fixes
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: SQL Server 2025 CU10 on Linux: 2027 starts late
- Who is affected
SQL Server 2025 CU10 on Linux, the latest update on 4 November, with these zones in AT TIME ZONE. .NET Framework on Windows (reported, not run by us); .NET 8.0.33 and 10.0.14 were right in the maintainer's test. On Linux, the latest SQL Server 2022 and SQL Server 2025 CU1 and CU9 don't have these zones. Not tested: SQL Server on Windows, Azure SQL.
- How to check
Each row is 00:30 on 1 January 2027 in that zone. Correct is 2027-01-01T00:30:00 with -05:00, -06:00 and -07:00 for Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. CU10 gives 2026-12-31T23:30:00 with -06:00, -07:00 and -08:00, in both columns. Error 9820 means your build doesn't have these zones.
SELECT zone, CONVERT(varchar(33), (CAST(utc AS datetime2(0)) AT TIME ZONE 'UTC') AT TIME ZONE zone, 126) AS from_utc, CONVERT(varchar(33), CAST('2027-01-01T00:30:00' AS datetime2(0)) AT TIME ZONE zone, 126) AS from_local FROM (VALUES ('Manitoba Standard Time', '2027-01-01T05:30:00'), ('Alberta Standard Time', '2027-01-01T06:30:00'), ('British Columbia Standard Time', '2027-01-01T07:30:00')) AS t(zone, utc);
Source: dotnet/runtime#136894: TimeZoneInfo and the first hour of 2027 in the new Canadian zones, Microsoft: Canada's 2026 time zone updates, guidance for Microsoft SQL, SQL Server 2025 build versions (CU10, KB5125471). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 6 January 2027
OpenAI shuts down its text-to-speech models, and its Speech endpoint has no model left to use
On 1 October 2026 OpenAI announced that tts-1, tts-1-hd and gpt-4o-mini-tts (including the gpt-4o-mini-tts-
2025-03-20 and gpt-4o-mini-tts- 2025-12-15 snapshots) will be removed from the API on 6 January 2027. These are the only models that OpenAI's API reference lists for the Speech endpoint, POST /v1/audio/speech. The recommended replacement, gpt-realtime-2.1-mini, is not a supported model for that endpoint. OpenAI's text-to-speech guide calls the move "a change of API workflow" to the Realtime API. Changing the model name is not enough: the call has to be rewritten. No tested fix yet OpenAI text-to-speech guide (deprecation notice and the Realtime API route)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI removes tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts
- Who is affected
Code that sends speech requests to OpenAI’s API: POST /v1/audio/speech, or client.audio.speech.create in OpenAI's Python and Node SDKs, or the matching calls in its Go, Java, .NET (AudioClient.GenerateSpeech) and Ruby SDKs, with any of these models. That includes apps and plugins that offer OpenAI as a text-to-speech provider. Self-hosted servers that copy OpenAI's /v1/audio/speech route and model names and generate the audio themselves are not affected by OpenAI's shutdown; a gateway or proxy that forwards the request to OpenAI is. Azure OpenAI deployments are not covered by this date: Microsoft's retirement schedule gives its own dates for these models, and its date for tts and tts-hd, 15 December 2026, is earlier.
- How to check
In this order: (1) look at your organization's audio speech usage, which shows the calls that actually ran: OpenAI's Usage API has an audio speeches endpoint (it needs an admin key) that can group usage by model; (2) search your code and configuration with the command below; (3) for each hit, check where the request goes: calls that reach OpenAI's own API are affected; calls that a base URL setting (such as OPENAI_BASE_URL) sends to a server that generates the audio itself are not, but a gateway or proxy that forwards them to OpenAI is still affected. A hit that only defines the route or lists model names, as in a server that offers the endpoint, is not a request. The command searches your own files and skips node_modules; it ignores case and also finds OpenAI's Go, Java and Ruby SDK calls and model constants, such as client.Audio.Speech.New and openai.SpeechModelGPT4oMiniTTS. No output does not clear you: a framework can send gpt-4o-mini-tts by default without your code naming it, for example Pipecat's OpenAITTSService or the OpenAI Agents SDK voice pipeline. Search for the speech class your framework uses, or rely on step 1. (BusyBox grep, the default on Alpine, does not support --exclude-dir.)
grep -rniE --exclude-dir=node_modules --exclude-dir=.git \ -e 'audio(\(\))?[./:]speech([^A-Za-z0-9_]|$)' \ -e '(^|[^A-Za-z0-9_.-])(tts-1(-hd)?|gpt-4o-mini-tts(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?)([^A-Za-z0-9_.-]|$)' \ -e 'SpeechModel(\.|::)?(tts_?1(_?hd)?|gpt_?4o_?mini_?tts)' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
OpenAI text-to-speech guide (deprecation notice and the Realtime API route)
Source: OpenAI deprecations: 2026-10-01 Text-to-speech models, OpenAI text-to-speech guide, OpenAI API reference: Create speech (model values), OpenAI model page: gpt-realtime-2.1-mini (endpoint support), Microsoft Foundry: Model retirement schedule (Azure OpenAI), OpenAI API reference: Usage, audio speeches. Checked . Link to this entry
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Package managers 9 January 2027
Homebrew removes protobuf@21: macOS CI that installs it stops
Homebrew disabled protobuf@21 on 8 January 2026, but it still installs with a warning, because it is also marked deprecated. Homebrew's docs say disabled formulae are removed automatically one year after their disable date, so protobuf@21 is due to go from 9 January 2027. The three removals we watched in October 2026 (vera++, cloudiscovery and phpmd) each landed the day after that anniversary. After removal, brew install fails with "No available formula with the name", as it did for us on vera++, cloudiscovery and openssl@1.1.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Homebrew removes protobuf@21
- Who is affected
macOS CI jobs, setup scripts and Brewfiles that install protobuf@21, usually for protoc 3.21. GitHub code search found at least 20 public repositories from 16 owners, each pushed to in the last year and not archived, whose GitHub Actions workflows run brew install protobuf@21, among them apache/brpc (ci-macos.yml) and google/sbsim. The search covers default branches and leaves out forks. brew bundle reports the failure and installs the rest of the Brewfile. Homebrew counted 143 protobuf@21 installs in the 30 days to 19 October. These are install events, CI runners included, not users.
- How to check
From your repository root, list what your CI and Brewfile install with Homebrew, then look up each name's disable_date and deprecation_date in Homebrew's formula data, as below. A disable_date means the formula is scheduled to leave homebrew/core one year after it; in the removals we watched, it went the day after the anniversary. If deprecation_date is null, the formula is not also marked deprecated, and in our runs such formulae stopped installing on the disable date itself; icu4c@77 did, with the clock set to 31 October. A null disable_date means no removal is scheduled yet. Do not go by brew info alone: it can print "It will be disabled on …" for a formula with no disable date set, so that line does not give a removal date. A name that is not in homebrew/core returns an error, and this schedule does not cover it. Installs that build the name from a variable will not match the search; look for them by hand.
grep -rnE 'brew install|^ *brew "' \ .github Brewfile A=https://formulae.brew.sh/api P='"d[a-z]*_date":[^,]*' for N in protobuf@21; do printf '%s ' "$N" curl -fsSL "$A/formula/$N.json" | grep -oE "$P" | tr '\n' ' ' echo done- Fix
Tested fix
The lasting fix is the supported formula, protobuf (brew install protobuf); we did not test whether a given project builds against it. To keep 3.21 a while longer, keep the formula in your own tap: the code below copies it from homebrew-core without its deprecate! and disable! lines, then installs it from the tap. After 9 January, replace main with a homebrew-core commit from before the removal. We ran these steps on Linux with Homebrew 7.0.10 on 19 October: protobuf@21 installed from Homebrew's bottle, and protoc --version printed libprotoc 3.21.12. We did not run them on macOS, which uses the same formula code. On cloudiscovery, already removed, the same steps installed a program that ran. On vera++, also removed, it installed but would not start, because a library it links to had moved on in Homebrew. A kept copy keeps the download, not the program working. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
N=protobuf@21 brew tap-new --no-git you/pins T="$(brew --repository you/pins)" U=https://raw.githubusercontent.com U=$U/Homebrew/homebrew-core/main P='^ *(deprecate|disable)!' curl -fsSL "$U/Formula/p/$N.rb" | grep -vE "$P" >"$T/Formula/$N.rb" brew install "you/pins/$N"Tested
Source: Homebrew formula page: protobuf@21 (deprecated, disabled on 8 January 2026), Homebrew docs: Deprecating, Disabling and Removing Formulae ("automatically removed one year after their disable date"). Checked . Link to this entry
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Git hosting 13 January 2027
GitHub permanently stops accepting SHA-1 RSA signatures and one key exchange over SSH
From 13 January 2027, github.com permanently stops accepting RSA signatures made with SHA-1 (ssh-rsa) and the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange, after brownouts on 4 November and 9 December 2026. Only Git over SSH is affected: GitHub says remotes that start with https:// are not. In our own test, against a stand-in for GitHub's server, 10 of 32 SSH client stacks broke, all only with an RSA key. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
The error each client prints, and its fix, are in our GitHub SSH guide.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: GitHub SSH stops accepting old RSA clients
- Who is affected
Two parts of the change can break a connection to github.com over SSH. The first is SHA-1 signatures, which some old clients are limited to when they use an RSA key. Since 15 March 2022, GitHub has required SHA-2 signatures for RSA keys added on or after 2 November 2021. The SHA-1 removal therefore newly affects only older RSA keys used with SHA-1 signatures. A working RSA connection alone does not tell you the key's age. The second is the key exchange. The key-exchange removal can affect a client that has no other key exchange in common with GitHub, regardless of the key's type or age. In our test, CentOS 7's libssh2 1.8.0 failed that way, because the one being removed is the only one it shares with github.com. Git's own ssh command is usually OpenSSH, which GitHub lists as fine from 7.2p1. The breaks we found were in programs that use a library instead: Python code with paramiko, Node code with ssh2, Java with JSch, Go with x/crypto/ssh, PuTTY's plink, and curl or other programs built on libssh2. That includes Debian 12's libssh2, and Debian 12 has long-term support until 30 June 2028. On GitHub Enterprise Server the change comes with version 3.25 instead. To test it, we set our own OpenSSH 10.0 server to github.com's current SSH algorithm lists, removed those two, and connected from 35 client stacks with RSA, ECDSA and Ed25519 keys, twice each; 32 of them worked before the removal. 10 of those 32 broke, all only with the RSA key: PuTTY 0.70 and 0.73 (Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04), paramiko 2.4.2 and 2.8.1, node ssh2 0.8.9 and 1.0.0, the original JSch 0.1.55 (com.jcraft), Go x/crypto from 17 November 2021, and curl with libssh2 1.10.0 (Debian 12) and 1.8.0 (CentOS 7). All five OpenSSH clients we tested kept working. The newest versions we tried of paramiko, node ssh2, Go x/crypto, Ruby net-ssh, PuTTY and libssh2 passed too, and so did the maintained JSch fork com.github.mwiede, unlike the original com.jcraft JSch 0.1.55, the only original JSch version we tried. Every break was below a minimum version in GitHub's table, or was an old version of a library the table does not list. This was our stand-in, not GitHub's server; we will check github.com during the 4 November brownout. We did not test Windows clients, TeamCity, JGit, libgit2 builds, Dropbear or ssh-agent setups. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Update, : from our location, github.com was in the brownout from about 08:30 to 22:00 UTC (we checked every 30 minutes). During it, curl with CentOS 7's libssh2 1.8.0 failed with "curl: (2) Failure establishing ssh session", and old paramiko waited about 40 seconds before printing a misleading key-file error. The other old clients printed the same errors as in our earlier test. We tested with a key GitHub did not know, and we will check again on 9 December.
- How to check
Only remotes that do not start with https:// matter, and git remote -v lists them. ssh-add -l shows the type of each key in your SSH agent, in brackets at the end of its line; ssh-keygen -lf followed by a key file does the same for a key on disk. Ed25519 and ECDSA avoid the SHA-1 RSA change; the client still needs a supported key exchange. So whatever the key, find what makes the connection and its version. The next commands print the installed paramiko, ssh2 and Go x/crypto versions, PuTTY's version and the libssh2 version your curl uses; run each where that tool or project is installed. For Java, look for jsch in mvn dependency:tree or gradle dependencies. Compare the versions with the fix below. A program that bundles its own SSH library will not show up here.
git remote -v ssh-add -l pip show paramiko | grep Version npm ls ssh2 go list -m golang.org/x/crypto plink -V curl -V | grep -o 'libssh2/[0-9.]*'- Fix
Tested fix
Switch to an Ed25519 or ECDSA key. In our test it worked on every stack that can load one, old versions included, and GitHub says these keys keep working. Make one as below, add the .pub file to GitHub as an SSH key or a deploy key, and point your tool at it. The original JSch 0.1.55 loads ECDSA keys but not Ed25519. Or upgrade the client. These versions passed with an RSA key: paramiko 2.9.0, ssh2 1.17.0, the JSch fork com.github.mwiede 0.1.66, Go x/crypto v0.1.0, PuTTY 0.76 and libssh2 1.11.1. GitHub's table asks for Go x/crypto 0.16.0 and PuTTY 0.82, so aim for those or later. CentOS 7's libssh2 1.8.0 loads neither key type, so it has no key workaround: move that job to a newer system. Tested on 21 October against our stand-in server, not GitHub's. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 \ -f ~/.ssh/github_ed25519 cat ~/.ssh/github_ed25519.pubTested
Source: GitHub changelog: Security improvements for SSH (22 September 2026; brownouts 4 November and 9 December, removal 13 January 2027, minimum client versions), GitHub blog: Improving Git protocol security on GitHub (SHA-2 signatures required from 15 March 2022 for RSA keys added on or after 2 November 2021), Debian 12 bookworm release page (long-term support until 30 June 2028). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 14 January 2027
OpenAI removes GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini from its API
On 14 October 2026 OpenAI announced that GPT-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06, gpt-4o-2024-11-20), GPT-4o mini (gpt-4o-mini-
2024-07-18), GPT-4.1 (gpt-4.1-2025-04-14) and GPT-4.1 mini (gpt-4.1-mini- 2025-04-14) will be removed from the API on 14 January 2027. The recommended replacement is gpt-6-luna. OpenAI's notice lists dated snapshots and does not say whether the bare names (gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-mini) stop working. Every snapshot those names point to is on the removal list, and the model pages mark them Deprecated. 40 of the 42 listed libraries send only a bare name, so whether they are affected depends on what OpenAI does with those names. No tested fix yet OpenAI deprecations page (entry of 14 October 2026)
What the 23 October shutdown printed, and a check for your installed packages, are in our OpenAI shutdown guide.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI removes GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 from its API
- Who is affected
Code that calls OpenAI through a library without passing a model. On 18 October we read the latest release of the 252 packages among the 15,000 most-downloaded on PyPI that depend directly on the OpenAI, Anthropic or Google SDKs. At least 42 of them send one of these models by default when you don't pass a model, among them langsmith (evaluator), openai-agents (compaction session only), google-adk, browser-use, llama-index-llms-openai, crewai, haystack-ai and pipecat-ai. Two name a dated snapshot from the notice (inspect-evals, nemo-gym); the other 40 send only the bare names. The full list gives each package's file and line. Callers who pass model= are not affected by that default; Azure deployments follow Azure's own schedule.
- How to check
In this order: (1) open your OpenAI usage dashboard grouped by model, which shows the library calls that actually ran; (2) for each of these models you see there, call GET /v1/models/<id> and read shutdown_date; (3) with your project's Python environment active, search its site-packages for these model names with the command below, or pass model= explicitly.
grep -rnE --include='*.py' \ "[\"'](openai/)?gpt-4(o|\.1)\ (-mini)?(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?\ [\"']" \ "$(python3 -c 'import sysconfig print(sysconfig.get_paths()["purelib"])')"- Fix
No tested fix yet
The 42 libraries: version, model, role, file and line
Paths are relative to site-packages, with line numbers from the version we read on 18 October 2026; they can move in later releases. Listed: the 42 packages that two independent readings of the code, made without seeing each other's labels, both marked as sending one of these models by default.
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langsmith 0.14.11 Bare name
gpt-4oevaluator default (LLMEvaluator, provider openai)langsmith/evaluation/ llm_evaluator.py:87 -
openai-agents 0.24.0 Bare name
gpt-4.1compaction session (OpenAIResponsesCompactionSession -> responses.compact)agents/memory/ openai_responses_compaction_session.py:119 Not the SDK's main default: that is gpt-5.6-luna. Only the compaction session sends gpt-4.1.
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google-adk 2.12.0 Bare name
gpt-4oOpenAI integration model defaultgoogle/adk/ integrations/ openai/ _openai_llm.py:369 -
browser-use 0.13.11 Bare name
gpt-4oMCP server agent LLM default (ChatOpenAI)browser_use/mcp/ server.py:686 -
llama-index-llms-openai 0.8.3 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniOpenAIResponses class default modelllama_index/llms/ openai/ responses.py:105 -
pyod 3.6.7 Bare name
gpt-4ohard-coded request (auto model selector)pyod/utils/ auto_model_selector.py:158 -
swesmith 0.0.9 Bare name
openai/gpt-4oissue generation default (via litellm)swesmith/issue_gen/ generate.py:91 Also
gpt-4ohard-coded request (difficulty rater)swesmith/train/ difficulty_rater/ get_difficulties.py:31 -
dashscope 1.27.7 Bare name
gpt-4oCLI (acli) OpenAI provider defaultdashscope/acli/ providers/ openai.py:19 -
livekit-plugins-openai 1.8.8 Bare name
gpt-4.1main default (OpenAI LLM)livekit/plugins/ openai/ llm.py:98 Also
gpt-4.1main default (Responses LLM)livekit/plugins/ openai/ responses/ llm.py:227 -
crewai 1.15.28 Bare name
gpt-4.1-minifallback default LLM when no model or env is set (DEFAULT_LLM_MODEL)crewai/constants.py:355 Also
gpt-4oOpenAI provider completion defaultcrewai/llms/ providers/ openai/ completion.py:372 -
graphifyy 0.9.92 Bare name
gpt-4.1-miniOpenAI backend defaultgraphify/llm.py:179 The Azure backend default at llm.py:218 is not counted.
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daft 0.7.26 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniOpenAI provider prompter defaultdaft/ai/ openai/ provider.py:24 -
chonkie 1.7.0 Bare name
gpt-4.1OpenAIGenie defaultchonkie/genie/ openai.py:37 The Azure genie default is not counted.
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codewords-client 0.4.11 Bare name
gpt-4.1-miniSubAgent default (sent through openai-agents)codewords_client/agent.py:50 Routed through CodeWords' own OpenAI pass-through.
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pipecat-ai 1.12.0 Bare name
gpt-4.1main default (OpenAI LLM service)pipecat/services/ openai/ base_llm.py:211 Also
gpt-4.1main default (OpenAILLMService settings)pipecat/services/ openai/ llm.py:56 -
inspect-evals 0.25.0 Dated snapshot from the notice
gpt-4o-2024-08-06judge default (agentharm refusal and semantic judges)inspect_evals/agentharm/ agentharm.py:31 Also
gpt-4o-2024-08-06judge defaultinspect_evals/agentharm/ scorer.py:45 Also
gpt-4o-minijudge default (healthbench)inspect_evals/healthbench/ healthbench.py:23 -
evidently 0.7.23 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniLLM-judge descriptor default (provider openai)evidently/descriptors/ generated_descriptors.py:721 Also
gpt-4o-miniguardrail default (PII guard)evidently/guardrails/ guards/ pii_llm.py:19 -
weave 0.53.12 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniprompt completion default (via litellm)weave/prompt/ prompt.py:561 -
graphiti-core 0.31.1 Bare name
gpt-4.1-miniOpenAI client defaults (LLM client and reranker)graphiti_core/llm_client/ openai_generic_client.py:35 Also
gpt-4.1-minireranker defaultgraphiti_core/cross_encoder/ openai_reranker_client.py:32 -
haystack-ai 3.4.0 Bare name
gpt-4.1-minidefault chat generator of LLMRankerhaystack/components/ rankers/ llm_ranker.py:23 Also
gpt-4.1-minidefault chat generator of QueryExpanderhaystack/components/ query/ query_expander.py:134 The Azure generator default is not counted.
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npmai-agents 1.0.2 Bare name
gpt-4oOpenAIBackend defaultnpmai_agents/core.py:113 -
langextract 1.7.1 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniOpenAI provider default model_idlangextract/providers/ openai.py:111 -
headroom-ai 0.41.0 Bare name
gpt-4o-minimemory backend extraction default (mem0)headroom/memory/ backends/ mem0.py:72 Also
gpt-4oAnyLLM backend fallbackheadroom/backends/ anyllm.py:283 Also
gpt-4omemory eval judge defaultheadroom/evals/ memory/ judge.py:50 -
zernio-sdk 1.4.1244 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniAI OpenAI provider defaultlate/ai/ providers/ openai.py:33 Same file as late-sdk.
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aider-chat 0.86.2 Bare name
gpt-4omain default when no model is given (DEFAULT_MODEL_NAME)aider/models.py:30 -
late-sdk 1.4.1244 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniAI OpenAI provider defaultlate/ai/ providers/ openai.py:33 Same file as zernio-sdk.
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conductor-python 2.0.0 Bare name
openai/gpt-4oOpenAI Assistants agent default (prefix stripped before the call)conductor/ai/ agents/ ext.py:33 -
langwatch-scenario 1.6.0 Bare name
openai/gpt-4.1report aggregation default (via litellm)scenario/report/ _aggregate.py:68 -
lightrag-hku 1.5.7 Bare name
gpt-4o-minievaluation LLM default (EVAL_LLM_MODEL)lightrag/evaluation/ eval_rag_quality.py:157 Also
gpt-4o-minillm_model_name default read by openai_completelightrag/lightrag.py:707 -
dbt-osmosis 1.5.0 Bare name
gpt-4omain default (OPENAI_MODEL env fallback)dbt_osmosis/core/ llm.py:208 -
nemo-gym 0.7.0 Dated snapshot from the notice
gpt-4.1-2025-04-14judge default (verifif)resources_servers/verifif/ app.py:123 Also
openai/gpt-4o-miniagent model default (kilocode agent)responses_api_agents/kilocode_agent/ app.py:221 Goes to api.openai.com only when no policy base URL is set.
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autogen 0.14.1 Bare name
gpt-4oRAG query-engine fallback LLM when none is passedautogen/agentchat/ contrib/ graph_rag/ neo4j_graph_query_engine.py:87 Also
gpt-4oRAG query-engine fallback LLMautogen/agentchat/ contrib/ rag/ llamaindex_query_engine.py:54 -
apache-airflow-providers-openai 2.1.0 Bare name
gpt-4o-minihook chat-completion defaultairflow/providers/ openai/ hooks/ openai.py:298 -
cognee 1.6.5 Bare name
gpt-4o-minieval framework judge default (deepeval GEval)cognee/eval_framework/ eval_config.py:31 -
embedchain 0.1.128 Bare name
gpt-4ohard-coded request (image loader)embedchain/loaders/ image.py:30 -
textarena 0.7.4 Bare name
openai/gpt-4ohard-coded game-master model (via OpenRouter)textarena/envs/ GuessWho/ env.py:12 Also
openai/gpt-4ohard-coded game-master model (via OpenRouter)textarena/envs/ TwentyQuestions/ env.py:17 Sent through OpenRouter, not directly to OpenAI.
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hindsight-api-slim 1.0.0 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniprovider default for openai, the default providerhindsight_api/config.py:1106 Also
gpt-4o-minifallbackhindsight_api/config.py:1137 -
deepteam 1.0.10 Bare name
gpt-4ored-team evaluation model defaultdeepteam/red_teamer/ red_teamer.py:73 Also
gpt-4o-minisimulator/evaluation defaultdeepteam/red_team.py:18 -
pdf2zh-next 2.9.0 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniOpenAI translation engine defaultpdf2zh_next/config/ translate_engine_model.py:84 The Azure engine default is not counted.
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sqlframe 4.5.0 Bare name
gpt-4oOpenAIConfig default modelsqlframe/base/ dataframe.py:118 -
ell-ai 0.0.17 Bare name
gpt-4o-miniautocommit message model defaultell/configurator.py:79 -
forecasting-tools 0.3.4 Bare name
gpt-4odefault forecast-bot LLM when none is givenforecasting_tools/forecast_bots/ forecast_bot.py:961 Also
gpt-4.1SmartSearcher defaultforecasting_tools/agents_and_tools/ research/ smart_searcher.py:34
Source: OpenAI API deprecations: entry of 14 October 2026 (GPT-4 series, shutdown 14 January 2027), OpenAI model page: GPT-4o (marked Deprecated). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 20 January 2027
OpenAI removes gpt-realtime and its older audio models, and LiveKit's OpenAI RealtimeModel still asks for gpt-realtime by default
On 20 July 2026 OpenAI announced that these models will be removed from the API on 20 January 2027: gpt-realtime and gpt-realtime-2025-08-28 (replacement gpt-realtime-2.1); gpt-4o-realtime (gpt-realtime-2.1); gpt-realtime-mini and gpt-realtime-mini-
2025-12-15, and gpt-4o-mini-realtime (gpt-realtime-2.1-mini); gpt-audio, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-audio and gpt-4o-mini-audio (gpt-audio-1.5); and the gpt-4o-mini-transcribe- 2025-03-20 snapshot. OpenAI's model pages already mark every gpt-4o realtime and audio preview model in those families as shut down (OpenAI set 7 May 2026 for them), so code that still requests one of those has a problem today, not on 20 January. Each one has a named replacement, so for most callers the fix is a new model name. The risk is a framework that picks the model for you: in LiveKit Agents 1.8.10 (released 28 October 2026), openai.realtime.RealtimeModel() with no model argument requests gpt-realtime. No tested fix yet OpenAI deprecations page (2026-07-20 entry: each model and its replacement)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI removes gpt-realtime and old audio models
- Who is affected
Code that requests any of these models from OpenAI's API, in Realtime sessions or anywhere else, including LiveKit voice agents that use openai.realtime.RealtimeModel without a model argument. In their releases read on 3 November, the OpenAI Agents SDK (0.24.0) and Pipecat (1.15.0) already default to gpt-realtime-2.1. Self-hosted servers that copy OpenAI's model names and run the model themselves are not affected by OpenAI's shutdown; a gateway or proxy that forwards the request to OpenAI is. Azure OpenAI deployments are not covered by this date: Microsoft's retirement schedule retires gpt-realtime 2025-08-28 on 2 March 2027.
- How to check
In this order: (1) search your code and configuration with the command below; (2) for each LiveKit openai.realtime.RealtimeModel( line it prints, and each RealtimeModel( call in a file where it prints the import line, look for a model argument: without one, the session requests gpt-realtime, and passing model="gpt-realtime-2.1" moves it to the replacement; (3) for each hit, check where the request goes: calls that reach OpenAI's own API are affected; calls that a base URL setting (such as OPENAI_BASE_URL) sends to a server that runs the model itself are not, but a gateway or proxy that forwards them to OpenAI is still affected. The command searches your own files and skips node_modules. No output does not clear you: another framework can send one of these models by default without your code naming it. Search for the realtime or audio class your framework uses. (BusyBox grep, the default on Alpine, does not support --exclude-dir.)
grep -rniE --exclude-dir=node_modules --exclude-dir=.git \ -e '(^|[^A-Za-z0-9_.-])(gpt-realtime(-mini)?(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?|gpt-4o(-mini)?-realtime(-preview)?(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?)([^A-Za-z0-9_.-]|$)' \ -e '(^|[^A-Za-z0-9_.-])(gpt-audio(-mini)?(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?|gpt-4o(-mini)?-audio(-preview)?(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?)([^A-Za-z0-9_.-]|$)' \ -e '(^|[^A-Za-z0-9_.-])gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20([^A-Za-z0-9_.-]|$)' \ -e 'openai\.realtime\.RealtimeModel\(' -e 'openai\.realtime import RealtimeModel' -e 'plugins\.openai import .*realtime' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
OpenAI deprecations page (2026-07-20 entry: each model and its replacement)
Source: OpenAI deprecations: 2026-07-20 Legacy audio, realtime, and transcription models, OpenAI model page: gpt-realtime (alias and deprecated snapshot), LiveKit Agents 1.8.10 on PyPI (livekit/agents/llm/_realtime/openai.py, RealtimeModel default model), Microsoft Foundry: Model retirement schedule (Azure OpenAI). Checked . Link to this entry
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February 2027
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Data APIs 1 February 2027
US airline delay data gets a new cause category: ten events leave the Air Carrier code
A US Department of Transportation rule takes effect on 1 February 2027 after a delay. It adds a sixth cause-of-delay category to what airlines report to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the Section 511(b) category, for ten events that the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 says may no longer be counted as Air Carrier delays, among them aircraft cleaning after a passenger's death and aircraft damage from extreme weather. It covers delays and cancellations of flights from 1 January 2027, and January's reports are due by 15 February 2027.
No tested fix yet DOT notice: the rule applies to flights from 1 January 2027
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Airline delay causes get a sixth category
- Who is affected
Anyone who analyses BTS cause-of-delay data, for example the CarrierDelay, WeatherDelay, NASDelay, SecurityDelay and LateAircraftDelay fields of the Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance table. From January 2027 flights, some delays move out of Air Carrier, so carrier-delay figures are not comparable with earlier months. The rule sets what airlines report. How BTS's public downloads will show the new category is set separately by BTS, and we have not seen it.
- How to check
Search your code and notebooks for the delay-cause fields. A match shows where a series break or a new field can reach you; it does not mean your code fails.
P='carrier_?delay|late_?aircraft_?delay' grep -rniE "$P" --exclude-dir=.git .- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: Federal Register: Cause of Airline Delay and Cancellation Categories under Section 511(b), final rule, 3 September 2026 (FR Doc. 2026-18040), Federal Register: delay of effective date to 1 February 2027, 15 October 2026 (FR Doc. 2026-21058), BTS TranStats: Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance fields. Checked . Link to this entry
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Data APIs 22 February 2027
USGS decommissions WaterServices: requests are redirected to a notice
USGS decommissions WaterServices on 22 February 2027. From that day, every request to waterservices.usgs.gov is redirected to a decommissioning blog post instead of returning data.
No tested fix yet USGS migration guide to the new Water Data APIs
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: USGS WaterServices shut down
- Who is affected
Anything still calling waterservices.usgs.gov instead of the new Water Data APIs.
- How to check
Search your code and configuration for the old host.
grep -rn 'waterservices.usgs.gov' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
Source: USGS: WaterServices degradation and decommission schedule (18 September 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 26 February 2027
OpenAI shuts down whisper-1 and the GPT-4o transcription models; its guides name no current model for timestamps, subtitle files or speaker labels
OpenAI's deprecations page says it notified developers on 26 August 2026 that whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize will be removed from the API on 26 February 2027, with gpt-transcribe or gpt-live-transcribe as replacements. The page's table now also lists, for the same date, the gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-
2025-12-15 snapshot and the translations endpoint, POST /v1/audio/translations, whose listed replacement is Realtime translation at v1/realtime/translations; archived copies show the endpoint row was added in mid-October 2026. OpenAI's quickstart sends recorded audio to the same transcriptions endpoint with gpt-transcribe. For word or segment timestamps, OpenAI's speech-to-text guide says existing integrations can use whisper-1 until 26 February 2027 and that timestamp_granularities is only supported for whisper-1; it says its examples for speaker labels and subtitle formats use deprecated models. Its realtime transcription guide says gpt-live-transcribe doesn't return word-level timestamps or speaker labels. Neither guide names a current model for timestamps, subtitle files (srt, vtt) or speaker labels. No tested fix yet OpenAI speech-to-text guide (deprecation notice and current workflows)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: OpenAI removes whisper-1 and gpt-4o-transcribe
- Who is affected
Code that sends transcription or translation requests to OpenAI's API: POST /v1/
audio/ transcriptions or /v1/ audio/ translations, or client.audio.transcriptions.create and client.audio.translations.create in OpenAI's Python and Node SDKs, or the matching calls in its Go, Java, .NET (AudioClient.TranscribeAudio and TranslateAudio) and Ruby SDKs, with any of these models. That includes apps and plugins that offer OpenAI as a speech-to-text provider. Realtime sessions that use these models to transcribe input audio (the transcription setting under audio.input, or input_audio_transcription) are affected too, including those started by the OpenAI Agents SDK, which uses gpt-4o-mini-transcribe there when the app sets no transcription model. LiveKit Agents' OpenAI plugin also uses gpt-4o-mini-transcribe by default, both in its realtime model's input transcription and in its STT class. Callers that ask for timestamps (timestamp_granularities), srt or vtt output, speaker labels or translation into English need more than a new model name. A call pinned to the older gpt-4o-mini-transcribe- 2025-03-20 snapshot stops earlier, on 20 January 2027, under OpenAI's separate 20 July 2026 notice. Self-hosted servers that copy OpenAI's routes and model names and transcribe the audio themselves are not affected by OpenAI's shutdown; a gateway or proxy that forwards the request to OpenAI is. Azure OpenAI deployments are not covered by this date: Microsoft's retirement schedule gives its own dates for these models, and its date for whisper, 15 December 2026, is earlier. - How to check
In this order: (1) look at your organization's audio transcription usage, which shows the calls that actually ran: OpenAI's Usage API has an audio transcriptions endpoint (it needs an admin key) that can group usage by model (its reference doesn't say whether translations calls or Realtime transcription are counted there); (2) search your code and configuration with the command below; (3) for each hit, check where the request goes: calls that reach OpenAI's own API are affected; calls that a base URL setting (such as OPENAI_BASE_URL) sends to a server that transcribes the audio itself are not, but a gateway or proxy that forwards them to OpenAI is still affected; (4) for each affected call, look for timestamp_granularities, response_format srt, vtt, verbose_json or diarized_json (the Go, Java and .NET SDKs spell these their own way, such as TimestampGranularities and AudioResponseFormatVerboseJSON in Go, timestampGranularities and AudioResponseFormat.VERBOSE_JSON in Java, AudioTimestampGranularities and AudioTranscriptionFormat.Verbose in .NET), and translations calls. OpenAI names no current model for the first group. A translations call has a named replacement, Realtime translation, but it is a different API that streams audio through a session: OpenAI says changing only the model ID doesn't migrate it. Calls that already use gpt-transcribe also match the endpoint pattern; they are affected only if they rely on the features in step 4. The command searches your own files and skips node_modules; it ignores case and also finds OpenAI's Go, Java and Ruby SDK calls and model constants, such as openai.AudioModelWhisper1 and AudioModel.WHISPER_1. No output does not clear you: a framework can send one of these models by default without your code naming it; for example, the OpenAI Agents SDK's realtime sessions transcribe input audio with gpt-4o-mini-transcribe unless you set a transcription model, and LiveKit Agents' openai.STT() does the same unless you pass a model, as does openai.realtime.RealtimeModel() unless you set input_audio_transcription. Search for the realtime or speech-to-text class your framework uses, or check its default model settings. (BusyBox grep, the default on Alpine, does not support --exclude-dir.)
grep -rniE --exclude-dir=node_modules --exclude-dir=.git \ -e 'audio(\(\))?[./:](transcriptions|translations)' \ -e '(^|[^A-Za-z0-9_.-])(whisper-1|gpt-4o(-mini)?-transcribe(-diarize)?(-20[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})?)([^A-Za-z0-9_.-]|$)' \ -e 'AudioModel(\.|::)?(whisper_?1|gpt_?4o_?(mini_?)?transcribe)' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
OpenAI speech-to-text guide (deprecation notice and current workflows)
Source: OpenAI deprecations: 2026-08-26 Transcription models, OpenAI speech-to-text guide, OpenAI API reference: Create transcription, OpenAI model page: gpt-transcribe, Microsoft Foundry: Model retirement schedule (Azure OpenAI), OpenAI API reference: Usage, audio transcriptions, OpenAI realtime transcription guide, Internet Archive: OpenAI deprecations page, 15 October 2026 (first copy with the translations row). Checked . Link to this entry
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March 2027
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Data APIs 6 March 2027
US health-plan price files change shape: one in-network file per provider network, posted quarterly
New Transparency in Coverage rules, published 6 October 2026, change the machine-readable price files that US group health plans and insurers must post. The new file rules apply from 6 March 2027. In-network rate files then cover one provider network each, instead of one plan, and are updated quarterly instead of monthly, starting with the first quarter after that date: by our reading, 1 April 2027. Rules for a new taxonomy file and a plain-text file in the website's root folder apply from 6 September 2027. The rule leaves the exact layout to CMS's schema repository on GitHub, and its version 3.0 was not released when we checked on 30 October 2026.
No tested fix yet CMS price-transparency-guide: tagged versions (no 3.0 tag on 30 October 2026)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US health-plan price files change format
- Who is affected
Code that downloads and parses payers' in-network rate and table-of-contents files: research pipelines, employer and broker price tools, and open-source parsers. In CMS's draft 3.0 in-network rates schema (branch v3.0/in-network-rates, last changed 28 October 2026), the top-level version key becomes schema_version, reporting_entity_name and reporting_entity_type move into a reporting_entity object, the plan fields (plan_name, plan_id, issuer_name) leave the file, and network, attestation and reporting_period are new required keys. In the draft table-of-contents schema (branch v3.0/table-of-contents, also last changed 28 October 2026), reporting_structure is replaced by a networks list and a plans list that maps each plan to its networks. Each draft drops the XML version of its schema. The drafts can still change before release.
- How to check
Search your parser for the version 2 top-level keys that the draft 3.0 schema drops. A match shows code that reads today's layout, not a failure. Then see whether CMS has tagged version 3.0 yet.
P='reporting_entity_name|reporting_entity_type' P="$P|reporting_structure" grep -rnoE "$P" --exclude-dir=.git .- Fix
No tested fix yet
CMS price-transparency-guide: tagged versions (no 3.0 tag on 30 October 2026)
Source: Federal Register: Transparency in Coverage final rules, 6 October 2026 (FR Doc. 2026-20447), CMS price-transparency-guide: draft 3.0 in-network rates schema. Checked . Link to this entry
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Certificates 15 March 2027
Publicly trusted TLS certificates drop to a 100-day maximum
From 15 March 2027, publicly trusted TLS certificates can be valid for at most 100 days, and domain validation can be reused for at most 100 days, down from 200 for both.
No tested fix yet CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (dates in section 1.2.2)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: TLS certificate maximum drops to 100 days
- Who is affected
Anyone who renews certificates by hand or on a fixed schedule built around 200-day certificates. Renewal will be needed at least every 100 days, about four times a year.
- How to check
Read your live certificate's dates (replace example.com with your host) to see how long your current certificates last.
echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 \ 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -startdate -enddate- Fix
No tested fix yet
CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (dates in section 1.2.2)
Source: CA/Browser Forum TLS Baseline Requirements: maximum validity 100 days from 2027-03-15. Checked . Link to this entry
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April 2027
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Node.js 22 April 2027, planned release date; the tags move when the 27.0.0 images are published
node:latest becomes Node 27, and node:latest and node:lts stop being the same image
Node.js 27.0.0 is planned for 22 April 2027. Node 27 is the first release line under the new Node.js schedule: it has been in an alpha phase since October 2026 (the first alpha, 27.0.0-alpha.0.0.0, is dated 29 October), and 27.0.0 makes it the Current release. In the official Docker image, the tags without a version number follow the Current release, so node:latest, node:current, node:slim, node:alpine, node:trixie, node:bookworm and their variants move from Node 26 to Node 27 once the 27.0.0 images are published. node:lts and node:26 stay on Node 26. node:latest and node:lts have been the same image since 28 October 2026; on 22 April they split. Node 26.0.0 came out on 5 May 2026 and its images were merged the next day; Node 24.0.0's images were merged on its release day, 6 May 2025. The image maintainers are rewriting their tag generator for the alpha phase in an open pull request (2681). We ran that version. With today's data it produces the same tags as the published list. With the Node 27 entry from the open pull request that adds the alpha images (2678), a 27.0.0 release added to the release list it reads, and the clock set to 21 April 2027, it moved no tags; with the clock set to 22 April it moved 18 tags to Node 27. Neither pull request is merged yet. The generator in use today, once rerun, would drop latest, current and the other tags without a version number from the list, leaving them on Node 26 until a fix is merged. The floating tags for the alpha period are still under discussion. An open issue (2680) proposes dropping or deprecating the current tags, and a reply argues against removing them from Node 26. A tag that is dropped from the list is not deleted from Docker Hub. It keeps its last image and stops getting updates, so node:current and the current- tags might stay on Node 26 instead of moving. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Guide Node.js 27 release notes (alpha so far)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: node:latest becomes Node 27
- Who is affected
Dockerfile stages, Compose services and CI jobs whose image is node with no tag, node:latest, node:current, or another tag without a version number (node:slim, node:alpine, node:alpine3.24, node:alpine3.23, node:trixie, node:trixie-slim, node:bookworm, node:bookworm-slim, or a current- form such as node:current-slim), without an @sha256 digest. They get Node 27 the next time the machine fetches the image after the move: a fresh CI runner, docker pull, or docker build --pull. A machine that already has the image keeps Node 26 until it pulls again. Node 27's Linux variants can change before April. A tag for a variant Node 27 does not have stays on its last Node 26 image. Which changes break code will be in the 27.0.0 release notes, which are not out yet. The notes for the first alpha list several, among them: when --max-old-space-size is not set, the default heap limit becomes half of physical memory, between 256 MB and 4 GB, and memory held by Buffer and ArrayBuffer counts toward it; v8.serialize(), structuredClone() and postMessage() use a format that older Node.js releases cannot read; req.headers in the http module has a null prototype; npm moves to 12.1.0 and the bundled OpenSSL to 4.1.0. That list can change before 22 April. Tags with a version number, such as node:26-slim, do not move. The proposed alpha images get only exact version tags, such as 27.0.0-alpha.0.0.0-trixie-slim. In that pull request no floating tag points at an alpha; the maintainers are discussing whether to add one, such as next.
- How to check
Run this from your repository root. It lists lines in Dockerfiles, Containerfiles and YAML files outside node_modules where FROM, image:, container: or an ARG line names node with no tag or with a tag that has no version number. It leaves out lines that name a major (node:26), lts, a release codename (node:iron, node:jod) or an @sha256 digest. Each line it prints is a candidate; check it. It also prints images named through a variable, such as node:${NODE_TAG}; read your ARG lines for those. It can print lines that are fine, such as an image whose name ends in node or a line that is commented out. It does not see GitLab's long form (image: then name: node:latest on the next line); search for name: node there. On our test files, run with GNU grep 3.12 in bash and dash, it printed every line it should, and its only extra lines were of the kinds named here.
grep -rniIE --exclude-dir=node_modules \ --include='*ockerfile*' --include='*ontainerfile*' \ --include='*.yml' --include='*.yaml' \ -e '(FROM|image:|container:|ARG ).*\bnode([^-[:alnum:]_./]|$)' . | grep -viE 'node:([0-9]|lts|argon|boron|carbon|dubnium|erbium|fermium|gallium|hydrogen|iron|jod|krypton|lithium)|@sha256'- Fix
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To stay on Node 26, name it: node:26, node:26-slim and node:26-alpine stay on Node 26, which Node.js supports until 30 April 2029, and node:lts stays on Node 26 until Node 27 becomes LTS, planned for 20 October 2027. To see what Node 27 changes for your code, run your tests on the Node 27 alpha before April; Node.js says alpha releases are for library authors and CI pipelines, not for production. We did not test whether a given project works on Node 27.
# Before FROM node:latest # After: stay on Node 26 FROM node:26
Source: Node.js release schedule: Node.js 27 alpha from 28 October 2026, 27.0.0 on 22 April 2027, LTS on 20 October 2027; Node.js 26 supported until 30 April 2029, Node.js release phases: from Node.js 27, every release line goes through an alpha phase, Node.js 27.0.0-alpha.0.0.0 release notes (29 October 2026), nodejs/docker-node pull request 2681 (open): tag generator rewritten for alpha releases, nodejs/docker-node issue 2680 (open): proposal to drop or deprecate the current tags, with a reply against removing them from Node 26, nodejs/docker-node pull request 2678 (open): Node.js 27 alpha images with exact version tags only, docker-library/official-images commit: Node.js 26.0.0 images, merged 6 May 2026 (node:latest moved from Node 25 to Node 26), docker-library/official-images: the published node tag list. Checked . Link to this entry
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Node.js 30 April 2027
Node 22 reaches end of life, and the node:22 images stop getting updates
Node.js 22 (Jod) reaches end of life on 30 April 2027. Node.js says a release line at end of life no longer receives updates, security patches included. The official Docker image drops a release line from its build list at about that time: Node 20, which reached end of life on 30 April 2026, was dropped on 1 May 2026, and Node 18, end of life 30 April 2025, on 28 May 2025. The tags are not deleted: on 4 November 2026 Docker Hub still served node:20 and node:18, last updated on 22 April 2026 and 23 May 2025. So node:22 keeps pulling after it is dropped, but it is no longer rebuilt: no Node.js fixes and no Debian or Alpine package updates.
Guide Install lines for Yarn, Corepack and pnpm, checked on Node 24 and 26
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Node 22 reaches end of life
- Who is affected
Dockerfile stages, Compose services and CI jobs on a node:22 tag (node:22, node:22-slim, node:22-alpine, node:22-bookworm and the like, or the codename tags node:jod and node:lts-jod), and CI setup steps, .nvmrc, .node-version and .tool-versions files that install Node 22, including by its name lts/jod. Nothing fails on 30 April itself: builds keep working, but security fixes released for newer Node.js lines after that date do not come to Node 22. node:22 and node:22-slim are Debian 12 (bookworm).
- How to check
Run this from your repository root. It lists lines that pick Node 22 in Dockerfiles, Containerfiles, YAML files, .nvmrc, .node-version and .tool-versions outside node_modules: node:22 and node:jod images, lts/jod, node-version: lines that name 22, and version files that start with 22. A version range in package.json, such as >=22, is not listed and does not need to change. It can print a range in a node-version: line, such as '>=22', which runs the newest matching Node.js already on the runner, or downloads the newest release if none matches; check those. It misses versions set through a variable; read your ARG and env lines too. On our test files, run with GNU grep 3.12 in bash and dash, it printed every line it should, and its only extra line was such a range.
grep -rniIE --exclude-dir=node_modules \ --include='*ockerfile*' --include='*ontainerfile*' \ --include='*.yml' --include='*.yaml' \ --include='.nvmrc' --include='.node-version' \ --include='.tool-versions' \ -e 'node:(22|jod|lts-jod)\b' -e 'lts/jod' \ -e 'node-version:(.*[^.0-9])?22([^0-9]|$)' \ -e '^(v|nodejs |node )?22(\.|[[:space:]]|$)' .- Fix
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Move to Node 24, supported until 30 April 2028, or Node 26, supported until 30 April 2029, and run your own tests on it; we did not test whether a given project works there. node:24 and node:24-slim stay on Debian 12 and still include Yarn v1 and Corepack. node:26 images include neither, and node:26 and node:26-slim are Debian 13 (trixie), whose apt has no apt-key. Install lines for Yarn, Corepack and pnpm are in the guide below.
# Before FROM node:22-slim # After FROM node:24-slimInstall lines for Yarn, Corepack and pnpm, checked on Node 24 and 26
Source: Node.js release schedule: Node.js 22 end of life 30 April 2027; Node.js 24 until 30 April 2028; Node.js 26 until 30 April 2029, Node.js: End-Of-Life ("it will no longer receive updates, including security patches"), docker-library/official-images commit: Drop Node.js v20 (1 May 2026), docker-library/official-images commit: Drop EOL Node.js 18 (28 May 2025), Docker Hub: node:20 tag record (last updated 22 April 2026), docker-library/official-images: the published node tag list (node:22 tags). Checked . Link to this entry
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Already in effect, still breaking systems
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Databases 20 January 2008
MySQL TIMESTAMP columns already refuse dates after 19 January 2038
A MySQL TIMESTAMP column holds times up to 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038, the largest second a signed 32-bit count can hold, and refuses any later value when it is written. So the limit applies now to every future date kept in such a column: since 20 January 2008 for a 30-year term that starts on the day it is written, and since 20 January 2023 for a 15-year one. On 4 November 2026, MySQL 9.7.4, the current long-term-support release, refused 2038-01-19 03:14:08 and 2040-01-01 00:00:00 with ERROR 1292 (22007): Incorrect datetime value; 8.4.13 did the same. With strict mode off (sql_mode set to an empty string), both stored 0000-00-00 00:00:00 instead, with only a warning.
Tested fix
What 13 other ways of storing time did at the same second, including two that go back to 1901 without an error, is in our page The last second.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: MySQL TIMESTAMP refuses dates after 2038
- Who is affected
Applications that keep future dates in a MySQL TIMESTAMP column: the end of a loan, lease, subscription or warranty, certificate and licence expiry, scheduled jobs and other "valid until" fields. A column that only records the current time, such as created_at, keeps working until 2038. MariaDB 11.5 and later on 64-bit builds hold TIMESTAMP values up to 2106-02-07; in our runs MariaDB 12.3.3 and 11.8.9 stored both dates. We tested the database alone, not any application built on it.
- How to check
Run this query in MySQL as root, or another account that can see every schema; it lists only the tables the account can see. It returns every TIMESTAMP column outside the system schemas, including columns of views: for a view, change the table behind it. For each column, ask whether it can ever hold a date after 19 January 2038. If inserts of such dates give no error but read back as 0000-00-00 00:00:00, the server is not in strict mode and is losing them without an error.
SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE data_type = 'timestamp' AND table_schema NOT IN ('mysql', 'sys', 'performance_schema', 'information_schema') ORDER BY 1, 2, 3;- Fix
Tested fix
Change the column to DATETIME. Copy its definition from SHOW CREATE TABLE and change only the type: keep NOT NULL, DEFAULT, ON UPDATE, COMMENT and the precision (DATETIME(6) for TIMESTAMP(6)), because MODIFY drops whatever you leave out. Run it with the session time zone your application uses for this column, so the times it reads stay the same. At any other zone, the change moves every stored time with no error: in our test, an application at +05:30 read 12:00 before the change and 06:30 after it, because the change ran at UTC. Use UTC only if the application moves to UTC too. MySQL does not convert DATETIME between time zones, so from then on the column holds the application's clock time. The change copies the table and blocks writes while it runs. A table partitioned on UNIX_TIMESTAMP() of the column cannot be changed this way. Rows already stored as 0000-00-00 00:00:00 stay lost, and a strict session refuses the change until you repair them. Try it on a copy of the table first. On 9.7.4 and 8.4.13 the changed column kept the times the application read and its NOT NULL, DEFAULT and ON UPDATE; it took 2040-01-01 00:00:00 and dropped out of the check query.
SHOW CREATE TABLE loans; -- the time zone your application uses: SET SESSION time_zone = '+05:30'; -- your own definition, with only the type changed: ALTER TABLE loans MODIFY ends_at DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;Tested
Source: MySQL 9.7 Reference Manual: the DATE, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP types (TIMESTAMP range, and UTC conversion that DATETIME does not have), MariaDB documentation: TIMESTAMP, range to 2106-02-07 from 11.5 on 64-bit builds. Checked . Link to this entry
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Certificates 1 October 2026
The first 200-day TLS certificates reach their expiry date
Since 15 March 2026, publicly trusted TLS certificates can be valid for at most 200 days, down from 398. A certificate issued on 15 March with the full 200 days expired on 1 October 2026, so certificates now need renewing at least twice a year.
No tested fix yet CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (dates in section 1.2.2)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: First 200-day TLS certificates expire
- Who is affected
Anyone who renews certificates by hand or plans renewals around a once-a-year reminder. Automated renewal now has to succeed at least twice a year.
- How to check
Read your live certificate's dates (replace example.com with your host). If the gap between notBefore and notAfter is 200 days or less, it will not last a year.
echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 \ 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -startdate -enddate- Fix
No tested fix yet
CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements (dates in section 1.2.2)
Source: CA/Browser Forum TLS Baseline Requirements: maximum validity 200 days from 2026-03-15. Checked . Link to this entry
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Python 9 October 2026
Python 3.15 is out, and pip can quietly install years-old releases of capped dependencies
Python 3.15.0 was released on 9 October 2026. Some popular packages declare a requires_python that stops below 3.15; on 3.15, pip skips those releases and installs an older one without a warning, while uv ignores the cap and installs the latest.
Guide Check script and what to do: put a floor on direct dependencies so pip fails loudly
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Python 3.15: pip may install years-old releases
- Who is affected
Projects moving to Python 3.15 that depend on packages with a requires_python cap below 3.15. In our wheels-only test with pip 26.2.1 on 11 October, that included aiogram, great-expectations, youtube-transcript-api, voyageai and modal (old releases installed), and dagster, prefect, google-ads, mistral-common and snowflake (install fails without naming the cap).
- How to check
Resolve your requirements with the Python you use today, then run our cap315.py on the report: it lists every resolved release that excludes 3.15 and exits 1 if any does. The two commands are in the guide. To also run your own tests on 3.15 beside your newest Python every week, add our free Future CI workflow: https://github.com/CyberNative-AI/future-ci
Source: Python 3.15.0 release page (python.org). Checked . Link to this entry
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DNS 11 October 2026
The DNS root zone now signs only with KSK-2024: validating resolvers that only trust the 2017 key fail
On 11 October 2026 the DNS root zone began using only its new key-signing key, KSK-2024 (key tag 38696). A DNSSEC-validating resolver that does not trust it fails to resolve names.
Tested fix Tested fixes for systemd-resolved, BIND, Unbound, PowerDNS, dnsmasq and Pi-hole
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: DNS root key roll: old trust anchors fail
- Who is affected
Validating resolvers whose built-in or configured trust anchor has only the 2017 key, for example systemd-resolved on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, fresh BIND installs on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11, and some routers, Pi-hole setups and DNS server images.
- How to check
Ask your own validating resolver for a signed name. SERVFAIL, or "BOGUS DNSKEY" in its log, is the symptom; the guide has a check for each resolver that shows whether it trusts the new key.
resolvectl query example.com dig @127.0.0.1 example.com- Fix
Tested fix
Tested fixes for systemd-resolved, BIND, Unbound, PowerDNS, dnsmasq and Pi-hole Tested
Source: ICANN: Preparing for the root zone KSK rollover. Checked . Link to this entry
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Python 13 October 2026
Python 3.16.0a1 removes asyncio's event loop policy API: with pytest-asyncio installed, every test errors
Python 3.16.0a1, released 13 October 2026, removes asyncio's event loop policy system and asyncio.iscoroutinefunction(), both deprecated since 3.14.
Tested fix Tested conftest.py stopgap for pytest-asyncio, plus an iscoroutinefunction shim
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Python 3.16 alpha breaks pytest-asyncio
- Who is affected
Projects that add Python 3.16 to CI. With pytest-asyncio 1.4.0 (the current release) installed, every test errors at setup, including plain synchronous tests. Code that calls get_event_loop_policy() or set_event_loop_policy() fails too.
- How to check
See whether pytest-asyncio is installed and which version. Version 1.4.0 or older errors on 3.16; deprecation-warnings-as-errors on 3.15 does not catch it.
pip show pytest-asyncio- Fix
Tested fix
Tested conftest.py stopgap for pytest-asyncio, plus an iscoroutinefunction shim Tested
Source: What's New in Python 3.16, Removed: asyncio, PEP 826: Python 3.16 release schedule. Checked . Link to this entry
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CI runners 16–30 October 2026, 14:00 to 24:00 UTC on each brownout day
GitHub Actions: jobs on macOS 14 runners fail during scheduled brownouts
GitHub makes jobs on the macOS 14 image fail for ten hours on six days before it retires the image: 14:00 UTC to midnight UTC on 16, 19, 23, 26, 29 and 30 October 2026.
Guide Find the labels, pick the replacement by architecture, check Xcode and simulators
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: macOS 14 brownout: jobs fail 14:00–24:00 UTC
- Who is affected
Workflows that use the labels macos-14, macos-14-large or macos-14-xlarge.
- How to check
From your repository root, search the workflow files for the old labels (needs ripgrep). Read every match, including matrix entries.
rg -n --hidden --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.yaml' \ '\bmacos-14(-large|-xlarge)?\b' .github/workflows
Source: GitHub changelog: macOS 14 runner image retirement (1 October 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 25 October 2026, 01:00 UTC
UK and EU clocks go back: some JavaScript and n8n scheduled jobs run twice or at the wrong time
The UK and the EU end summer time on 25 October 2026, so one local hour happens twice: 01:00 to 01:59 in London, 02:00 to 02:59 in Berlin.
Guide Measured results per library and a check for your schedule (no tested fix)
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: UK/EU clocks go back: some jobs run twice
- Who is affected
In our controlled-clock tests for London, cron 4.4.0 and node-schedule 2.1.1 ran half-hourly jobs twice in the repeated hour, and a daily cron job set just after it also fired once early. An n8n 2.40.7 daily 03:00 Schedule Trigger in Europe/Berlin fired twice, the extra run one hour early. Other versions and schedulers were not tested.
- How to check
Run our dst-check against your own expression, time zone and installed scheduler version before the change. It labels each callback ok, MISSED, DUPLICATED or SHIFTED.
Source: GOV.UK: When do the clocks change?, PTB (Germany's national time authority): when summer time begins and ends. Checked . Link to this entry
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Node.js 28 October 2026, tag move expected that day or shortly after; not announced
node:lts becomes Node 26: yarn and corepack are no longer in the image
Node.js 26 becomes the long-term support (LTS) release on 28 October 2026. The official Docker image's lts tags are expected to move from Node 24 to Node 26 that day or shortly after: they moved to Node 24 on the same day last year, and our run of the image's own tag generator, dated 28 October, moved node:lts, node:lts-slim and node:lts-alpine. The maintainers have not announced a time. Node 26 images include neither Yarn v1 nor Corepack, so a build that runs yarn or corepack without installing it first will fail. The node:lts and node:lts-slim tags also move from Debian 12 (bookworm) to Debian 13 (trixie), whose apt has no apt-key command. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Guide Install lines for Yarn, Corepack and pnpm, checked on Node 24 and 26
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: node:lts becomes Node 26: no Yarn, no Corepack
- Who is affected
The missing commands come from the image maintainers' notes and the Node.js 25.0.0 changelog, and we checked them on a Node 26.11.1 slim image: it has no yarn, corepack or apt-key. Affected are Dockerfile stages, Compose services and CI jobs whose image is a node:lts tag without an @sha256 digest. Our run of the tag generator moves every one of these tags to Node 26, including node:lts-alpine and node:lts-bookworm (only the name tag node:lts-krypton stays on Node 24), so a stage or job that runs yarn or corepack without first getting it breaks. Only node:lts and node:lts-slim also move to Debian 13, so apt-key breaks on those two tags only. A yarn, corepack or apt-key command in a RUN step fails at the first build after the tag moves, not on the day itself; a cached base image can delay that. A yarn command that appears only in CMD or ENTRYPOINT does not stop the build: the new container fails when it starts. Tags that name a major version, such as node:24-slim, do not move. We searched GitHub code for Dockerfiles containing FROM node:lts and read a 5% sample, spread evenly across file sizes, on default branches. In that sample, 44 repositories that were not forks or archived and had been pushed to since 25 April 2026 have a stage like this: 29 run corepack, 17 run yarn during the build, 5 start the app with yarn and 2 use apt-key (some do more than one). Scaled up from the 5% sample, that is about 880 repositories. We read all 44: three are doubtful (a blog snippet, a backup file and a build that runs yarn only if npm fails), but the rule we fixed before the run counts them. Separately, among .gitlab-ci.yml files on GitHub that use a node:lts image, 23 such repositories have a yarn line and no yarn install anywhere in the file. The search misses FROM lines with --platform or a registry name, and reading a file cannot tell whether it is still built. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
- How to check
Run this from your repository root. This text search lists lines that name a node:lts image, and lines that name yarn, corepack or apt-key, in Dockerfiles and YAML files outside node_modules. For each build stage or CI job whose image is a node:lts tag without an @sha256 digest, look at its yarn and corepack lines: on Node 26 each one fails unless the stage gets the tool first, for example with npm install --global, a system package or a COPY from another image. apt-key fails only on node:lts and node:lts-slim. A yarn command only in CMD or ENTRYPOINT fails when the container starts, not during the build. The search also lists lines that are fine, such as copies of yarn.lock. It misses images named through a variable, such as node:${NODE_TAG}; read your ARG lines too. On the Dockerfiles in our sample, it listed every file we counted.
grep -rnIE --exclude-dir=node_modules \ --include='*ockerfile*' \ --include='*.yml' --include='*.yaml' \ -e 'node:lts' \ -e '\b(yarn|corepack|apt-key)\b' .- Fix
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Pin the Node major you build on today. node:24, node:24-slim and node:24-alpine stay on Node 24, which Node.js supports until 30 April 2028, and node:24 and node:24-slim stay on Debian 12. We ran Node 24.22 images (Debian 12 and Alpine) with no network: yarn 1.22.22 and corepack 0.36.0 were there, and yarn install worked offline on an empty project. When you move to Node 26, add Yarn or Corepack yourself, following the image maintainers' notes and Corepack's own instructions, and replace apt-key as your third-party repository describes for Debian 13. Install lines for Yarn, Corepack and pnpm that passed install-and-version checks on Node 24 and 26 images are in the guide below.
# Before FROM node:lts-slim # After: stay on Node 24 FROM node:24-slimInstall lines for Yarn, Corepack and pnpm, checked on Node 24 and 26
Source: Node.js release schedule: Node.js 26 becomes LTS on 28 October 2026; Node.js 24 is supported until 30 April 2028, Node.js Docker image README: Yarn v1 is not bundled into node images as of Node.js 26.0.0, Node.js 25.0.0 changelog: stop distributing Corepack (pull request 57617), Corepack README: how to install Corepack, docker-library/official-images commit 94de89d: Node.js 24 Krypton LTS (the lts tags moved to Node 24 on 28 October 2025), Node.js Docker image tag generator (stackbrew.js) as of 21 October 2026, Debian 13 (trixie) apt package file list: no apt-key. Checked . Link to this entry
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Package managers 30 October 2026
Homebrew removes node@18, and icu4c@77 stops it installing the same day
Homebrew disabled node@18 on 29 October 2025, but it still installs with a warning, because it is also marked deprecated. Homebrew's docs say disabled formulae are removed automatically one year after their disable date, so node@18 and hasura-cli are due to go from 30 October 2026, and tldr, disabled on 24 October 2025, from 25 October. The three removals we watched this month (vera++, cloudiscovery and phpmd) each landed the day after that anniversary, and so did tldr: Homebrew removed it at 00:20 UTC on 25 October. Also on 30 October, Homebrew disables icu4c@77, which node@18 depends on. icu4c@77 has no deprecation date of its own, so this one blocks: we ran brew install node@18 on Linux with Homebrew 7.0.10 and the clock set to 31 October, and it failed with "icu4c@77 has been disabled". A second agent reran it on the same machine and got the same result. On 28 October we ran it again with Homebrew 7.0.11 and the clock at 31 October, together with brew install dotnet@6, brew install postgresql@12 and a Brewfile line for icu4c@77; all four failed with the same error. We did not run them on macOS. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Guide
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Homebrew removes node@18
- Who is affected
CI jobs, setup scripts and Brewfiles that install node@18, hasura-cli or tldr. Once a formula is removed, brew install fails with "No available formula with the name"; brew bundle reports the failure and installs the rest of the Brewfile. A Brewfile line for icu4c@77 itself failed the same way with the clock at 31 October, and brew bundle still installed the rest of that Brewfile. GitHub code search found a brew "icu4c@77" line in at least 89 public repositories and a brew "node@18" line in at least 54, mostly dotfiles; it counted repositories pushed to in the last year and not archived, on default branches, leaving out forks. Homebrew's formula data lists three formulae that depend on icu4c@77: node@18, dotnet@6 and postgresql@12. dotnet@6 and postgresql@12 are not due to leave until mid-November, but with the clock at 31 October neither would install. A machine that already has node@18 keeps working: in a second run with the clock at 31 October, node@18 still ran, and brew upgrade, brew bundle install and brew reinstall node@18 succeeded, because icu4c@77 was already installed. The trap is brew uninstall node@18: it also removed icu4c@77 and 17 other dependencies nothing else needed, and brew install node@18 then failed. Homebrew counted 463 node@18, 494 hasura-cli and 1,204 tldr installs in the 30 days to 19 October. These are install events, CI runners included, not users.
- How to check
From your repository root, list what your CI and Brewfile install with Homebrew, then look up each name's disable_date and deprecation_date in Homebrew's formula data, as below. A disable_date means the formula is scheduled to leave homebrew/core one year after it; in the removals we watched, it went the day after the anniversary. If deprecation_date is null, the formula is not also marked deprecated, and in our runs such formulae stopped installing on the disable date itself; icu4c@77 did, with the clock set to 31 October. A null disable_date means no removal is scheduled yet. Do not go by brew info alone: it can print "It will be disabled on …" for a formula with no disable date set, so that line does not give a removal date. A name that is not in homebrew/core returns an error, and this schedule does not cover it. Installs that build the name from a variable will not match the search; look for them by hand.
grep -rnE 'brew install|^ *brew "' \ .github Brewfile A=https://formulae.brew.sh/api P='"d[a-z]*_date":[^,]*' L="node@18 hasura-cli tldr icu4c@77" for N in $L; do printf '%s ' "$N" curl -fsSL "$A/formula/$N.json" | grep -oE "$P" | tr '\n' ' ' echo done- Fix
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Move to node@24 (brew install node@24) or to node, the current release, and run your own tests on it; we did not test whether a given project works there. Do not move to node@22: Homebrew marks it deprecated from 30 October 2026, and it is due to be disabled a year later. For tldr, Homebrew names tlrc as the replacement. Until you have moved, do not run brew uninstall node@18 on a machine that has it. Copying node@18 alone into your own tap, as in the 9 January protobuf@21 entry, stops working on 30 October: with the clock at 31 October it failed on the disabled icu4c@77. What worked, on Linux with Homebrew 7.0.11 and the clock at 31 October, took three more steps: copy icu4c@77 into the same tap without its deprecate! and disable! lines; change node@18's line to depends_on "<your tap>/icu4c@77"; and run brew trust <your tap> once. brew install <your tap>/node@18 then installed v18.20.8 from bottles, with ICU 77. Without the changed line, node@18 still took icu4c@77 from homebrew/core; without brew trust, Homebrew refused to load the tap's icu4c@77. A one-formula tap such as the protobuf@21 one needs no trust step, because installing a formula by its tap name trusts it. Once node@18 leaves homebrew/core, take both files from its git history. We did not run this on macOS. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Source: Homebrew/homebrew-core: node@18 formula file at its last version (deprecated, disabled on 29 October 2025, depends on icu4c@77), Homebrew formula page: icu4c@77 (to be disabled on 30 October 2026), Homebrew docs: Deprecating, Disabling and Removing Formulae ("automatically removed one year after their disable date"), Homebrew/homebrew-core commit: "tldr: remove formula" (25 October 2026, 00:20 UTC). Checked . Link to this entry
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AI APIs 31 October 2026
Existing OpenAI evals become read-only
OpenAI's deprecations page says existing evals on its Evals platform become read-only on 31 October 2026. It does not say whether new runs on an existing eval are refused from then, or whether new evals can still be created. The Evals dashboard and API are scheduled to shut down on 30 November 2026.
No tested fix yet OpenAI's migration guide: Moving from OpenAI Evals to Promptfoo
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Existing OpenAI evals become read-only
- Who is affected
Eval pipelines on OpenAI's own Evals API. In our 20 October 2026 scan of public GitHub code, 458 of 493 (93%) counted files that call evals.runs.create contained Azure-related markers in a post hoc check. In two inspected samples, 44 of 48 files were Azure AI Foundry callers and three were documentation. Only 1 of 48 sampled files pointed at OpenAI's own endpoint, and it was a copied cookbook notebook, not an app. This OpenAI notice does not cover Azure AI Foundry's OpenAI-compatible evals. We found few OpenAI-platform callers in this public-code sample. Counts independently rerun; usage estimates come from sampled code inspection, not observed deployments. We read public default branches only; eval IDs kept in secrets, environment files or databases do not show up.
- How to check
Search your code, and your config and environment values, for evals.create and evals.runs.create, then check where the client points: a client on api.openai.com is affected; one pointed at an Azure AI Foundry project endpoint is not covered by this notice.
grep -rnE --exclude-dir=node_modules \ 'evals\.(runs\.)?create' .- Fix
No tested fix yet
OpenAI's migration guide: Moving from OpenAI Evals to Promptfoo
Source: OpenAI API deprecations: Evals platform (entry of 3 June 2026), OpenAI cookbook: Moving from OpenAI Evals to Promptfoo. Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 02:00 local
Canada's 1 November time change: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Trino and DuckDB still an hour off
Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Manitoba and British Columbia stop falling back on 1 November 2026. These data platforms carry their own copy of the time-zone rules, separate from the operating system's.
Tested fix Tested fixes for MongoDB, Elasticsearch/
OpenSearch, Trino and DuckDB Census: which popular Docker images carry time-zone data that gets these zones wrong
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Canada time change: databases an hour off
- Who is affected
Self-managed MongoDB, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Trino and DuckDB that report or bucket times in Canadian local time, or in Moroccan time, which old rules have had wrong since 20 September. Their newest releases were still wrong on 14 October.
- How to check
Each engine has a one-line query in the guide that converts 15 December 2026 12:00 UTC to America/Winnipeg. The right answer is 07:00 (UTC-05); 06:00 means stale rules.
- Fix
Tested fix
Tested fixes for MongoDB, Elasticsearch/
OpenSearch, Trino and DuckDB Tested
Source: IANA time zone database 2026e release notes. Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 02:00 local
Canada's 1 November time change: Java, Go, PHP, Kubernetes CronJobs and MySQL stay an hour off
On 1 November 2026 Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Manitoba and British Columbia stop falling back. Rules older than IANA release 2026e show Calgary, Edmonton, Inuvik and Winnipeg an hour behind; rules older than April 2026 also get Vancouver wrong. Ontario has announced, but not yet published, the same for northwestern Ontario west of the 90th meridian, including Kenora; 2026e already includes it, so the same fixes cover it.
Tested fix Tested fixes for Java, PHP, Go, Kubernetes CronJobs and MySQL/MariaDB
Census: which popular Docker images carry time-zone data that gets these zones wrong
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Canada time change: Java, Go, PHP an hour off
- Who is affected
Software that carries its own copy of the time-zone rules: Eclipse Temurin LTS Java older than the October update (2026b; Temurin 17.0.21/
21.0.13/ 25.0.5 ship 2026e) and Temurin 8 and 11 until January 2027 (their October tags carry 2026c: Inuvik and Winnipeg stay wrong), Go's built-in copy, PHP 8.2 and 8.3, Rust chrono-tz, Kubernetes CronJobs with timeZone (controller images on 2026b), and MySQL and MariaDB named time zones loaded before the change. Debian and Ubuntu packages were still on 2026c on 13 October. - How to check
These print the PHP and Node.js rules versions and the system's December time in Winnipeg. You want 2026e (PHP: 2026.5) and 07:00; anything older is an hour off for at least one zone. For Java, Go and the rest, see the guide.
php -r 'echo timezone_version_get(), "\n";' node -p process.versions.tz TZ=America/Winnipeg date -d '2026-12-15 12:00Z' +%H:%M- Fix
Tested fix
Tested fixes for Java, PHP, Go, Kubernetes CronJobs and MySQL/MariaDB Tested
Source: IANA time zone database 2026e release notes, Government of Ontario: permanent daylight saving time in parts of northwestern Ontario (13 October 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 01:00 local
Cuba keeps daylight saving time: time zone data older than 2026f shows America/Havana an hour behind from 1 November
On 24 October Cuba announced that it would not set its clocks back on 1 November 2026 and stays on UTC−04 until 7 November 2027. The IANA time zone database released the change as version 2026f on 28 October; older data, including 2026e, still has Cuba falling back, and by 29 October pytz 2026.6, moment-timezone 0.6.6, PECL timezonedb 2026.6 and Python's PyPI tzdata package had 2026f, but no stable Debian, Ubuntu or Alpine release and no Node.js release did. Software on older data switches America/Havana to UTC−05 at 05:00 UTC on 1 November and shows Cuban times one hour behind until 14 March 2027.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Cuba skips fall-back: Havana off on old tz data
- Who is affected
Anything that converts times with America/Havana on data older than 2026f. On 27 October all four copies we tested were an hour behind: Ubuntu 26.04's tzdata 2026e (GNU date, Python 3.14.4's zoneinfo), Node.js 24.22.1 (its own 2026e data) and OpenJDK 25.0.4.1 (its own 2026b data). Cuban times for 1 November 2026 to 14 March 2027 that were entered as local times and stored in UTC before the fix are an hour off too.
- How to check
This prints the time in Havana at 12:00 UTC on 1 November 2026. 08:00 CDT means your data has the change; 07:00 CST means it is out of date. The guide has the same check for Python, Node.js and Java.
TZ=America/Havana date -d '2026-11-01 12:00Z'
Source: Cuba's announcement, as reported by Prensa Latina on 25 October: "Cuba mantendrá horario de verano hasta noviembre de 2027", IANA time zone database commit: Cuba will not fall back 2026-11-01; stays on -04 through 2027-11-07, tz mailing list, Tim Parenti, 26 October: updated data will not reach devices before 1 November, IANA time zone database release 2026f (28 October 2026): Cuba will not fall back 2026-11-01, moment-timezone changelog: 0.6.6 (29 October 2026) updated data to IANA TZDB 2026f. Checked . Link to this entry
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Android 1 November 2026
Google Play's target-36 extension ends: old back-button code, the edge-to-edge opt-out and tablet orientation locks stop working on Android 16
Since 31 August 2026, Google Play accepts new apps and app updates only if they target Android 16 (API level 36) or higher. Developers who asked for more time got an extension to 1 November 2026. Wear OS, Android Automotive OS, Android TV and Android XR apps have lower targets, so this date is about phone and tablet apps. When an app targets 36 and runs on Android 16, predictive back is on by default, and Google says "onBackPressed is not called and KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK is not dispatched anymore". On Android 16, Google also says that at target 36 the edge-to-edge opt-out "is deprecated and disabled", and that "orientation, resizability, and aspect ratio restrictions no longer apply on displays with smallest width >= 600dp", such as tablets. In our emulator test at target 36 on Android 16, an onBackPressed() override in an Activity was never called and Back closed the screen; a KEYCODE_BACK handler in onKeyDown ran, but the screen closed anyway. In the same kind of test, a screen that used the opt-out drew its top content under the status bar, and a portrait-locked app opened in landscape on a tablet emulator. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Play target 36: Back, edge-to-edge, tablets
- Who is affected
Phone and tablet apps on Google Play can be affected if they rely on an Activity onBackPressed() override or an onKeyDown handler for KEYCODE_BACK to intercept Back, without a compatible callback or the predictive-back opt-out. Such code can handle WebView history, unsaved changes, drawers, or returning results. In our test, raising the target to 36 made Back close the screen on Android 16 despite those legacy handlers; an app already targeting 36 can encounter this before the Play deadline. We built one test app at target 35 and at target 36 and sent one Back key press to each screen, twice, on Android 16 and Android 15 emulators. At target 36 on Android 16, an onBackPressed() override in an Activity or an AppCompatActivity was never called, and the screen closed. A KEYCODE_BACK handler in onKeyDown still ran, but the screen closed anyway. At target 35, and on Android 15 at either target, every handler kept the user on the screen. Dialog.onBackPressed() and an AndroidX OnBackPressedDispatcher callback worked in every case. Cordova: with cordova-android 14.0.1 and only android-targetSdkVersion raised to 36, the backbutton event still fired, but the app closed anyway. cordova-android 15.1.0, which targets 36 by default, kept the user in the app but fired backbutton twice per press on Android 16 (once on Android 15). That is reported as cordova-android issue 2028, with a fix proposed in pull request 2029; both were open on 24 October 2026. React Native: ReactActivity overrides onBackPressed in 0.79.0 and adds an OnBackPressedCallback in 0.80.0, so apps on React Native before 0.80 are likely affected; we read the source and did not build a React Native app. Edge-to-edge: a screen is affected if its theme sets the edge-to-edge opt-out attribute to true and the screen does not apply window insets itself. In our test app on an Android 16 phone emulator, such a screen started below the 63-pixel status bar at target 35; at target 36 its content started at the top edge, under the bar. A screen that applied window insets stayed below the bar at both targets. On an Android 15 phone emulator the opt-out still worked at target 36, as Google says; that emulator failed an unrelated check in our test, so this is an observation only. Orientation: on Android 16 screens that are at least 600 dp on their shorter side, an app is affected if it locks orientation with screenOrientation in the manifest or setRequestedOrientation() in code, or limits resizing or aspect ratio. On an Android 16 tablet emulator (2560 by 1600 pixels, 800 dp on the shorter side), both kinds of portrait lock kept our app in a portrait window with bars at the sides at target 35. At target 36 the app opened in landscape, filled the screen, and its activity was recreated when we rotated the tablet; Google warns that this can lose state the app does not save. On an Android 16 phone emulator and an Android 15 tablet emulator, the lock held at both targets. Google's text also covers resizeableActivity and aspect-ratio limits; our test of those could not tell the two targets apart, so we make no claim about them. Google lists three exceptions: games that declare android:appCategory="game", screens narrower than 600 dp, and a user who chooses the app's default in the device's aspect ratio settings. To count the apps this reaches, we took the 759 open-source apps on F-Droid, with source on GitHub, GitLab or Codeberg, that were updated in the past year and whose latest F-Droid build targets 35 or lower. 99 have a Google Play listing under the same package name. 23 of those have an onBackPressed() override in an Activity, no enableOnBackInvokedCallback setting, and source on the default branch that still targets 35 or lower or sets no target we could read. We read each of the 23 overrides; they go back inside a WebView, ask about unsaved changes, close a drawer or selection, return a result before closing, or keep the screen open while a transfer runs. Two more of the 99 use React Native before 0.80. On 24 October 2026 we read 98 of the same 99 apps again at their current default branch (one source link was not a repository). 9 still target 35 or lower, or set no target we could read, and set the edge-to-edge opt-out to true. 20 have the same kind of target and lock orientation or limit resizing in the manifest or in code, without the opt-out property or the game category; 6 of those 20 are games in F-Droid's catalogue. Our frozen search counted 10 and 24; reading the build files by hand showed that 5 of those apps already target 36 or 37 through a build variable. This counts code on the default branch, not the build on Google Play, and it counts a pattern, not a confirmed bug in each app. We tested on emulators only (Google APIs images for Android 16 and 15, x86_64) with a Back key press sent by adb, not the swipe gesture, and no vendor skins. With the swipe gesture there is no key event, so we expect onKeyDown handlers not to run at all; we did not test that. The edge-to-edge and orientation tests ran on 24 October 2026 on the same kinds of emulator images with software rendering, one small test layout each and two runs per case, and no foldables or desktop windows. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
- How to check
Run this in your Android project. The first command lists onBackPressed and KEYCODE_BACK code, edge-to-edge opt-outs, and orientation, resizing and aspect-ratio settings. For Back, only overrides in an Activity and Back handling in onKeyDown matter, not Dialog overrides or calls. For edge-to-edge, only an opt-out set to true matters. For orientation, only the portrait and landscape values matter (such as portrait, sensorPortrait, landscape or userLandscape), not unspecified, user or fullSensor. The second command shows whether your manifest already sets enableOnBackInvokedCallback, the resizability opt-out property or android:appCategory="game". In our AGP 8.11.1 test, ./gradlew lintT36Debug reported GestureBackNavigation at Error severity; lintT35Debug did not report that issue. The default assembleT36Release build still succeeded, so run lint explicitly rather than relying on the release build to catch it. Lint does not cover the other two changes fully: in our lint run at target 36 with the same AGP version, the orientation and resizing locks got warnings only, and the edge-to-edge opt-out got no finding at all.
grep -rnE \ --include='*.java' \ --include='*.kt' \ --include='*.xml' \ -e 'onBackPressed *\(' \ -e KEYCODE_BACK \ -e windowOptOutEdgeToEdgeEnforcement \ -e screenOrientation \ -e '[Rr]equestedOrientation' \ -e resizeableActivity \ -e 'android:m(ax|in)AspectRatio' . grep -rn \ --include=AndroidManifest.xml \ -e enableOnBackInvokedCallback \ -e COMPAT_ALLOW_RESTRICTED \ -e appCategory .- Fix
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Stopgap: set enableOnBackInvokedCallback to "false" on the <application> tag in AndroidManifest.xml (first lines below). With it, every handler we tested kept the user on the screen again at target 36 on Android 16. Google calls this opt-out temporary, and it turns off the predictive back animations. Lasting fix: move the Back code into an AndroidX OnBackPressedDispatcher callback (second block); in an AppCompatActivity it handled Back in every build on both Android versions we tested. Google's guide says to enable the callback only while the screen needs to catch Back, for example while there are unsaved changes, and to disable it otherwise. Cordova: upgrade to cordova-android 15 rather than only raising the target, and if your backbutton handler must not run twice, follow issue 2028 for the fix. React Native, source-only recommendation: consider upgrading to 0.80 or later; ReactActivity in 0.80.0 adds the target-36 callback absent from 0.79.0. We read those two versions and did not build a React Native app or test an upgrade. We tested the opt-out and the callback on 21 October 2026, in the same emulator run (one Back key press, two repeats) as the failures above. We tested the next fixes on 24 October 2026. Edge-to-edge: there is no opt-out at target 36. Before raising the target, make each screen apply window insets itself (third block, using android.graphics.Insets and android.view.WindowInsets); in our test that kept the content below the status bar in every case. That block calls Android 11 (API 30) methods, and our test app's minSdk was 30. If your app's minSdk is below 30, use the AndroidX version instead, ViewCompat
.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener with WindowInsetsCompat.Type.systemBars(), as in Google's edge-to-edge guide, listed in the sources; we did not test that version. Orientation: to keep the old portrait window on tablets for now, add Google's temporary opt-out property to the application tag with the value true (its name ends in RESTRICTED_RESIZABILITY; the exact element is on Google's behavior changes page, listed in the sources); in our tablet test that restored the portrait window at target 36. Google also allows it on a single activity, and says this opt-out will not apply to apps that target API level 37. A game can instead declare android:appCategory="game", which also restored the portrait window in our test; Google lists games as an exception and gives no end date. Google's lasting fix is a layout that adapts to any orientation and size; we did not test that. Executed by us; not independently reproduced. <!-- Stopgap, in AndroidManifest.xml --> <application android:enableOnBackInvokedCallback="false" ...> // Lasting fix, in an AppCompatActivity: getOnBackPressedDispatcher().addCallback(this, new OnBackPressedCallback(true) { @Override public void handleOnBackPressed() { // your old onBackPressed() code } }); // Edge-to-edge (API 30+), on each root view: root.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener( (v, in) -> { Insets s = in.getInsets( WindowInsets.Type .systemBars()); v.setPadding(s.left, s.top, s.right, s.bottom); return in; });Tested
Source: Google Play Console Help: Target API level requirements for Google Play apps (31 August 2026; extension to 1 November 2026), Android Developers: Behavior changes, apps targeting Android 16 (predictive back; edge-to-edge opt-out disabled; orientation and resizability ignored on large screens), Android Developers: Add support for the predictive back gesture (OnBackPressedCallback; enable or disable the callback), Android Developers: Display content edge-to-edge in views (the AndroidX ViewCompat and WindowInsetsCompat version for apps that support Android 10 and older), apache/cordova-android issue 2028: backbutton fires twice for one Back key press on Android 16, React Native 0.80.0 source: ReactActivity adds an OnBackPressedCallback, CyberNative AI measured note: Android 16 target-36 Back test (test app, scripts, raw matrix and lint files), CyberNative AI measured note: Android 16 target-36 edge-to-edge and tablet orientation test (test app, scripts, raw results and the app count). Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 01:00 local
US clocks go back: Camunda 7, Operaton and CIB seven timer start events fire over and over for an hour
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US and Canada at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice. When Europe changed on 25 October, an Operaton 2.2.0 user reported that an hourly timer start event created "thousands of instances".
Guide Measured on all three engines: four changes that stopped the loop, and what each one moves
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: Camunda 7 timers loop
- Who is affected
Camunda 7 CE 7.24.0, Operaton 2.2.0 and CIB seven 2.2.0 with the JVM on a zone that changes its clocks. In our tests every timer start event we tried, R/PT1H, R/PT15M, a cycle with a UTC start, an hourly cron and a daily cron at 01:30, fired over and over for about an hour; on a UTC JVM they kept their normal schedule without looping. On a PostgreSQL 16 server, Operaton and Camunda hourly timers also looped with the real Job Executor; other server databases were not tested. No released fix on 27 October.
- How to check
With a JDK, jcmd shows the JVM's zone; UTC, Etc/UTC or a fixed Etc/GMT offset is not affected. The guide has a read-only query that lists every timer start event.
jcmd <pid> VM.system_properties | grep user.timezone
Source: Operaton issue #3973: daylight-saving switch causes timer event to create thousands of instances, CIB seven pull request #517: prevent loop when clocks go back (cron timers, open). Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 01:00 local
US clocks go back: Celery beat interval tasks stop for an hour, and a beat started inside it can send crontabs in a loop
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: Celery beat pauses
- Who is affected
Celery beat 5.6.3, the current stable release, and 5.5.3 with beat's timezone set to America/New_York. In our controlled-clock test of the real beat scheduler, interval schedules stopped for the repeated hour: an every-minute task missed 60 runs from 06:00 to 06:59 UTC, an every-5-minute task missed 12 and an hourly task missed one. The enable_utc setting made no difference. Crontab schedules every 15 minutes or on the hour skipped the repeated hour's times in every version we tested, 5.7.0rc1 included. Daily crontab jobs at 01:30 and 02:00 ran once; nothing ran twice. Other US time zones, a beat restart inside the hour, django-celery-beat's database scheduler, and delivery through a broker to workers were not tested.
Update, : a production report on Celery 5.6.2 in America/Los_Angeles describes beat sending every crontab entry in a loop from 01:00 to 02:00 PST, 149,010 messages in about 26 minutes; deleting the schedule file and restarting beat inside the hour started the loop again. We ran the report's test, which checks the schedule every 10 seconds, from 01:20 PST for 40 minutes: an every-6-minute crontab came due 204 times and an every-15-minute crontab 150 times instead of 6 and 2, on 5.5.3, 5.6.3, 5.7.0rc1 and Celery's main branch of 2 November alike. Those counts depend on the 10-second step. In Celery's own scheduler on a simulated clock, a beat started at 01:20 PST on 5.6.3, 5.7.0rc1 or main stopped waiting between checks, so a real beat sends as fast as it can loop. A daily crontab at 01:30 also looped until 01:30 PST passed; an hourly crontab did not. A beat already running before the change did not loop in our tests; the report does not say how its first loop began.
- How to check
Find beat's timezone in your Celery configuration (timezone, or CELERY_TIMEZONE in Django settings). If it is a US zone, entries in the beat schedule given as a number of seconds, a timedelta or schedule() are interval tasks; entries given as crontab() are crontabs.
pip show celery grep -rniE 'timezone|beat_schedule' \ --include='*.py' .- Fix
Tested fix
If a one-hour pause at 1 a.m. is acceptable, no change is needed. To keep interval tasks running, 5.7.0rc1 ran every interval task in our test; it is a release candidate, published on 18 October with Celery's fix (pull request #10769), so try it outside production first. On 5.6.3, a UTC beat timezone also ran every interval task, but it moves every crontab entry to UTC times, so use it only where every entry is an interval. Neither change stops crontabs every 15 minutes or on the hour from skipping the repeated hour's times. Executed by us; not independently reproduced. 5.7.0rc1 does not stop the loop in the test above. Celery's open pull request #10608, planned for 5.8.0, did in our run of the same test: 6 and 2 sends in 40 minutes, the correct counts.
pip install \ 'celery==5.7.0rc1'Tested
Source: Celery issue #6438: Celery beat stops sending tasks on DST changes, Celery pull request #10769: fix Beat intervals across DST transitions (merged 6 October, in 5.7.0rc1), Celery pull request #10608: crontab handling of daylight saving switches (open, planned for 5.8.0), Production report on Celery pull request #10608, 2 November: beat send loop on 5.6.2 at the US fall-back, with a test. Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 01:00 local
US clocks go back: Kubernetes CronJobs with timeZone set between 01:00 and 01:59 run twice
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US and eastern Canada at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: K8s 1 a.m. CronJobs run twice
- Who is affected
Kubernetes CronJobs whose timeZone is a zone that sets its clocks back, such as America/New_York, with an hour of 1 in the schedule. Kubernetes' CronJob scheduling code from v1.37.2 created two Jobs for a daily 01:30 CronJob, at 01:30 EDT and 01:30 EST, an hour apart, with different names; startingDeadlineSeconds did not stop it. The same file is in v1.35 and v1.36. CronJobs before 01:00 or from 02:00 ran once, and hourly CronJobs ran once per elapsed hour. CronJobs without timeZone follow kube-controller-manager's time zone and ran once when it was UTC. Daily 02:xx CronJobs created no Job on 14 March 2027, when the clocks go forward. Measured on the controller's code with a stepped clock, not on a running cluster.
- How to check
List each CronJob's time zone and schedule; look for a US zone with 1 in the hour field (the second field). The guide shows how to read the list, including CronJobs without a time zone.
kubectl get cronjobs -A -o custom-columns=\ NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace,NAME:.metadata.name,\ TIMEZONE:.spec.timeZone,LAST:.status.lastScheduleTime,\ SCHEDULE:.spec.schedule
Source: kubernetes#121594: a CronJob ran twice at the 2023 European change on GKE (closed as not planned by the triage bot). Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 02:00 local
US clocks go back: n8n workflows scheduled from 02:00 to 02:59 run twice
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US and Canada at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice. When Europe changed on 25 October, a self-hosted n8n 2.44.6 user reported that all eight of their daily triggers between 03:00 and 03:59 ran twice.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: n8n 2 a.m. jobs run twice
- Who is affected
Self-hosted n8n 2.5.0 to 2.44.x, including 2.44.7 (the stable release until 27 October), on the default scheduler, and 2.45.4 with N8N_SCHEDULER_ENABLED=false or N8N_USE_WORKFLOW_PUBLICATION_SERVICE=false. In our tests of 2.44.7, daily Schedule Triggers set between 02:00 and 02:59 in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, and Sunday and 1st-of-month ones in New York, ran twice: an hour early and on time. A Custom (Cron) schedule every 2 hours (*/2) got one extra run at 01:00. An instance with no time zone set uses America/New_York. n8n closed its report on 26 October as fixed in 2.45.0 and will not fix the old in-memory scheduler that 2.44.x uses. 2.45.4 became n8n's stable release on 27 October; its new scheduler gave one run in our planner test, not a full server run, and a running instance stays on its old release until it is upgraded.
- How to check
In n8n, Help → About n8n shows the version. A workflow's zone is under ⋯ → Settings → Timezone; Default means GENERIC_TIMEZONE, or America/New_York if it is not set. For Docker, these print the version and the instance zone (nothing printed means not set). The guide lists every schedule from an export.
docker exec <container> n8n --version docker exec <container> printenv GENERIC_TIMEZONE
Source: n8n issue #42070: Schedule Trigger runs daily workflows twice on DST fall-back night, n8n team reply closing #42070: fixed in 2.45.0, affected since 2.5.0, US daily 02:xx jobs on 1 November, n8n 2.45.4 release, made the stable release on 27 October. Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 02:00 local
US clocks go back: some JavaScript and n8n scheduled jobs run twice, at the wrong time or not at all
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice.
Python: APScheduler 3.x or a LiteLLM proxy? APScheduler 3.11 cron jobs with jitter, some 3.11.0 and 3.11.1 jobs without it, and LiteLLM 1.98.0 to 1.106.6 looped at 100% CPU in our tests: per version, with fixes.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: some jobs run twice
- Who is affected
In our controlled-clock tests, cron 4.4.0 and node-schedule 2.1.1 ran half-hourly jobs twice in the repeated hour, node-cron 4.6.0 picked different occurrences in New York and London, and an n8n 2.40.7 daily 02:30 Schedule Trigger in America/New_York fired twice, the extra run at 01:30. node-cron 4.6.0 can also skip the whole repeated hour when the process runs in a US time zone, even for a job set to UTC: in our test, an every-minute job missed all 60 runs from 06:00 to 06:59 UTC with TZ=America/New_York, and none with TZ=UTC. node-cron users reported this after the 25 October change and traced the cause; their fix is not released yet. Croner 10.0.1 looped at the change in our tests and in a user's production report; Croner 11.0.0, released on 26 October, did not loop in our controlled-clock rerun. Other versions and schedulers were not tested.
- How to check
Run our dst-check against your own expression, time zone and installed scheduler version before the change. It labels each callback ok, MISSED, DUPLICATED or SHIFTED.
Source: NIST: Daylight saving time rules, node-cron issue #625: every-minute job with timezone Etc/UTC stopped after the DST change until a restart (4.6.0), node-cron PR #626 (open): cause found by node-cron users, the process time zone moves "now" back an hour, Croner issue #399: timer loop at the fall-back in 10.0.1, closed as fixed in 11.0.0 on 26 October. Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 01:00 local
US clocks go back: sidekiq-cron daily jobs set between 01:00 and 01:59 run twice
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: sidekiq-cron jobs run twice
- Who is affected
sidekiq-cron 2.4.0, the current release, with Sidekiq 8.1.7 and fugit 1.14.0. In our controlled-clock test of the real poller and Redis, a daily job at 01:30 America/New_York was enqueued at 05:30 and again at 06:30 UTC, whether the process ran in UTC or New York time; a daily 01:00 job did the same. A daily 01:15 line with no time zone ran twice in each setup where it followed New York time: with TZ=America/New_York, in a Rails app set to Eastern time, or on a server set to New York time. Hourly and every-30-minute jobs ran on time, and daily jobs at 02:30 and 09:00 ran once. Earlier versions, other US time zones, several Sidekiq processes and Sidekiq Enterprise periodic jobs were not tested.
- How to check
Search your schedule (config/schedule.yml by default, or Sidekiq::Cron::Job.create calls) for cron lines whose hour is 1. A line with no time zone follows the TZ variable of the Sidekiq process if it is set; treat the line as affected if that is a US zone. Without TZ, treat it as affected if the server's time zone or, in a Rails app, config.time_zone is a US zone. The search below finds standard, natural-language ("every day at 1:30") and unquoted lines, hour ranges and hour lists. It also shows lines that run on the 1st of the month; skip those.
grep -rnE "cron[^:=]*[:=]>? *[\"']?([0-9*/,-]+ +){1,2}([0-9*/-]+,)*0?1([,-][0-9,-]*)? |cron.*every[^\"']* at 0?1([^0-9]|$)" \ config app lib- Fix
Tested fix
Move the job out of 01:00 to 01:59 local time, for example to 02:30. That ran once, at 02:30 in the zone the line follows, in every setup we tested. Or write its cron line in UTC, but only if the Sidekiq process has the TZ variable set. With TZ set, 30 6 * * * UTC ran once at 06:30 UTC, which is 01:30 in New York from 1 November and 02:30 in summer. On a server set to New York time with TZ not set, the same line ran at 06:30 New York time. We reported the cause, with a fix sketch, to fugit's maintainers. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
my_job: cron: "30 2 * * *" class: "MyJob"Tested
Source: fugit issue #136: from a UTC time, next_time and previous_time return both 01:30s at DST end (our report), sidekiq-cron job.rb: the enqueue check keys on the previous run time in UTC. Checked . Link to this entry
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Time zones 1 November 2026, 01:00 local
US clocks go back: Spring @Scheduled cron jobs set between 01:00 and 01:59 run twice
Daylight saving time ends in most of the US and eastern Canada at 02:00 local time on 1 November 2026, so 01:00 to 01:59 happens twice.
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: US clocks go back: Spring 1 a.m. jobs run twice
- Who is affected
Spring applications whose @Scheduled cron jobs use a zone that sets its clocks back, either the JVM's default zone or their own zone setting. In our tests of Spring Framework 6.2.19 and 7.0.10 and Spring Boot 3.5.16 and 4.1.2, a daily 01:30 job ran twice, at 01:30 EDT and 01:30 EST, an hour apart; so did 01:00, Sunday-only and 1st-of-month jobs in Spring's cron trigger from 5.3.39 to 7.0.10. Jobs before 01:00 or from 02:00 ran once, and so did every job without its own zone on a JVM in UTC. Hourly jobs ran once per elapsed hour. Daily 02:00 and 02:30 jobs did not run at all on 14 March 2027, when the clocks go forward.
- How to check
With a JDK, jcmd shows the JVM's zone; UTC or Etc/UTC means jobs without their own zone are not affected. The guide has a grep for cron lines and a short test that checks your own expression and zone.
jcmd <pid> VM.system_properties | grep user.timezone
Source: Spring Framework CronExpressionTests.daylightSaving: autumn change tested for 09:00 and 00:05 jobs only. Checked . Link to this entry
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CI runners 2 November 2026
GitHub Actions retires the macOS 14 runner image, and Xcode 15 and the iOS 17 simulators go with it
GitHub retires the macOS 14 runner image on 2 November 2026. Xcode 15, the iOS 17, 18.1 and 18.2 simulator runtimes and the iPhone 15 simulator devices are installed only on the macOS 14 images.
Guide Replacement by architecture, and which Xcode and simulators each image has
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: GitHub retires the macOS 14 runner
- Who is affected
Workflows that use macos-14, macos-14-large or macos-14-xlarge, and jobs that select Xcode 15, an iOS 17, 18.1 or 18.2 simulator or an iPhone 15 simulator, which no remaining image has.
- How to check
From your repository root, search the workflow files for the old labels (needs ripgrep), then check each matching job's Xcode and simulator selections.
rg -n --hidden --glob '*.yml' --glob '*.yaml' \ '\bmacos-14(-large|-xlarge)?\b' .github/workflows
Source: GitHub changelog: macOS 14 runner image retirement (1 October 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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Browsers 3 November 2026
Chrome 157 builds in the HTTP-only site warning, reaching fleets that limit Google's config
Chrome stops on a warning page before it opens a public site that has no working HTTPS, and asks the person before loading it over plain HTTP. People can click through. Google says Chrome will not keep warning about an insecure site that someone visits regularly, so the stop falls on first and occasional visits. Most Chrome users already have this: Google's server-side config for Stable Chrome turns it on for desktop Chrome 154 and later (Android 155 and later), as we read that config on 20 October 2026. Chrome 157 reaches the Stable channel on 3 November 2026 (an early release to a small share of users starts on 21 October) and builds the same default into its code. That brings it to browsers where an administrator has set the ChromeVariations policy to limit or turn off Google's config. In our test, Chrome 155 with that policy opened both of our HTTP test sites without asking, and Chrome Beta 157 with the same policy stopped both (Google Chrome on Linux, one run each; Windows, macOS, Android and ChromeOS not tested).
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Chrome 157 builds in the HTTP-only warning
- Who is affected
Public sites still served only over http:// on the normal port, and the people who open them for the first time or after a long gap. The people new to the warning on 3 November use Chrome with ChromeVariations set to critical fixes only (1) or off (2). Chrome's own list of its 1 million most visited sites (Chrome UX Report, September 2026) has 7,748 sites with an http:// address. On 20 October 2026 we opened 1,002 of them, each in a new profile with no Google config applied, in Chrome 155 and in Chrome 157: all 502 in the top 100,000 and 500 of the rest, picked at random. Of the sites that loaded over HTTP in Chrome 155, Chrome 157 stopped 93% in the top 100,000 (278 of 300) and 89% of the rest (288 of 322). Across the whole list, that is about 4,450 of the top 1 million sites (between 4,110 and 4,780) that stop a first-time visitor. Sites we could not reach from our network (19.6% of those we opened) count as not stopped, so the figure may be low. Executed by us (Chrome for Testing 157.0.8103.6 on Linux, one network location); not independently reproduced. Not stopped: sites on another port, such as http://host:8080 (all 33 that opened over HTTP in Chrome 155 opened in Chrome 157 with no warning), and sites whose HTTPS works, which Chrome opens over HTTPS without asking. We counted sites on a first visit, not warnings per person. We did not test Windows, macOS, phones, intranet sites (Google says private sites are left out), Wi-Fi sign-in pages or mobile carriers' HTTP-only billing pages.
- How to check
Open your site's http:// address in a current Chrome on default settings. If a warning page appears instead of your site, new visitors see it too. If your organisation restricts ChromeVariations, use Chrome Beta (version 157 or later) with a new profile and Google's config turned off; the command below does this on Linux and is close to how we ran our test.
# Chrome Beta with a new profile: google-chrome-beta \ --user-data-dir="$(mktemp -d)" \ --disable-field-trial-config \ http://your-site.example/- Fix
Tested fix
For a public site, serve it over HTTPS on port 443; Chrome opens sites whose HTTPS works over HTTPS with no warning. For computers your organisation manages, while sites move to HTTPS, you can set the Chrome policy HttpsOnlyMode to disallowed (below; on Linux, a JSON file in /
etc/ opt/ chrome/ policies/ managed/). In our 20 October 2026 test (Chrome for Testing 157.0.8103.6 on Linux, no Google config applied), Chrome 157 with the policy stopped 0 of the 30 sites it had stopped without it: 29 opened over HTTP and 1 ended on an error page. Executed by us; not independently reproduced. The policy turns the protection off for plain-HTTP addresses everywhere and also stops people from turning it on themselves, so treat it as a stopgap. An HttpAllowlist entry for one exact host did not cover a redirect to a different host (the visit ended on an error page), so list every host your http:// address passes through. { "HttpsOnlyMode": "disallowed" }Tested
Source: Chromium source change: enable balanced mode by default on desktop, Chromium Dash: release schedule (Chrome 157 stable 3 November 2026), Google: HTTPS by default, Chrome Enterprise policy list: HttpsOnlyMode and HttpAllowlist, Chrome Enterprise policy list: ChromeVariations. Checked . Link to this entry
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Browsers 3 November 2026
Chrome 157 turns on HTML-in-Canvas without its old names: HTML textures in three.js, PlayCanvas, Babylon.js and PixiJS went blank in our tests
Chrome 157 reached the Stable channel on 3 November 2026; Google is rolling it out over the following days and weeks. Google began sending it to a small share of Windows users on 22 October (Mac to follow) and of Android users on 23 October. Chrome 157 turns on HTML-in-Canvas, the API that draws page elements into a canvas, by default (Chrome's feature page lists it as shipping in 157), and removes the names its origin trial used: the layoutsubtree attribute, texElementImage2D (WebGL) and copyElementImageToTexture (WebGPU). In our small test scenes, the latest releases of three.js (0.186, WebGL renderer), PlayCanvas 2.23.3, Babylon.js 9.32.0 and PixiJS 8.22.0 drew an HTML texture in Chrome 156 with the feature switched on, and drew nothing in Chrome Beta 157. Only PixiJS reported an error, and it tells you to enable the API, which 157 already has on.
Tested fix
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: Chrome 157 drops the HTML-in-Canvas trial names
- Who is affected
Sites and apps that draw HTML into a canvas through three.js HTMLTexture, PlayCanvas texture.setSource(element), Babylon.js HtmlTexture or PixiJS HTMLSource, or with code based on Chrome's launch post. Small pages we adapted from the post's 2D, WebGL and WebGPU examples, which use the old names, drew nothing in Chrome Beta 157 (the WebGL and WebGPU ones already failed in Chrome 156 with the feature switched on). In our three.js, PlayCanvas and PixiJS scenes, the texture drew only with the feature switched on, as the origin trial does, so the pages at risk are those using the trial today. Babylon.js was different in the configuration we tested: with its default settings, HtmlTexture drew through its SVG fallback in Chrome 156 without the trial, then drew nothing in Chrome 157. For that configuration the break reaches beyond trial sites. A larger app, for example one that marks its canvas content="drawable", may behave differently. In GitHub code search on 23 October 2026, 143 public repositories (132 owners, 77 updated in the last 30 days) had matched code files that all use the removed names and none of the new ones, after excluding forks, documentation, vendored engine files, copies of three.js source and the engine and specification repositories. That counts indexed public code only (the index can trail the latest commit), not every file in each repository, deployed sites or trial sign-ups. Executed by us on Linux, in headless Chrome for Testing with software rendering (156, Beta 157.0.8103.15, one of the builds Google began sending to Windows Stable users on 22 October, and Canary 158; the feature switched on with a command-line flag in place of a trial token; small test pages, not the engines' own examples; two fresh loads each); not independently reproduced. A real GPU, another operating system or Android may differ. Chrome's feature page lists the launch for desktop, Android and WebView; we tested desktop Linux only.
- How to check
Open the page in Chrome 157 or later and look at the canvas. If the HTML texture is missing, the page is affected; the console may show nothing. To find code that calls the removed names, search your code, including any engine files you ship with it. Using one of the four engines does not by itself mean you are affected: our results come from small test scenes, so check your own pages.
# Names removed in Chrome 157: grep -rni -e texElementImage2D \ -e copyElementImageToTexture \ -e layoutsubtree .- Fix
Tested fix
Move to the API that Chrome 157 ships: mark the canvas with content="drawable" in place of layoutsubtree, mark the element drawable, and draw it inside the canvas's paint event handler with drawElementImage (2D, below), texElementSubImage2D (WebGL) or drawElementImageToTexture (WebGPU). On 23 October 2026 we ran the code below exactly as printed: it drew its element with no error in Chrome 156 with the feature switched on, in Beta 157 and in Canary 158. In 157 and 158, drawElementImage returned no transform, so the code checks for one before using it; without that check, the element still draws but the page throws an error. Our WebGL and WebGPU test pages written the new way also drew in all three. For three.js, an open pull request (#34732, not merged on 23 October) moves HTMLTexture to the new API, and with it the texture drew in Chrome 157. On 23 October no release of the four engines had a fix, and we found no issue or pull request about it for PlayCanvas, Babylon.js or PixiJS.
<canvas id="c" content="drawable"> <div id="el" drawable>Hi</div> </canvas> <script> const ctx = c.getContext('2d'); c.onpaint = () => { ctx.reset(); const t = ctx.drawElementImage( el, 0, 0); if (t) el.style.transform = t.toString(); }; c.requestPaint(); </script>Tested
Update, : PlayCanvas merged a fix into its main branch (pull request #9824) that uses the new names and keeps the old ones as a fallback. On 26 October it was not in a published release yet (the latest on npm was 2.23.3), so watch for the next PlayCanvas release. For Babylon.js, a forum moderator reproduced the blank texture in Chrome 157.0.8103.15 and opened a fix (pull request #19052, not merged on 26 October). The reply says the update() workaround stays valid until the fix ships. We have not tested either fix.
Update, : Babylon.js merged its fix (pull request #19052) on 27 October. Its latest release, 9.32.1, came out earlier that day, before the merge, so no Babylon.js release has the fix yet: keep the update() workaround until one does. PlayCanvas published 2.24.0-beta.24 on 28 October. That beta uses the new names; the latest stable release is still 2.23.3, and we have not tested the beta. For PixiJS, the fix in draft pull request #12341 drew the HTML texture in Chrome 157 and 158 on our test page, with WebGL and with WebGPU. It is not merged or released, and 8.22.0 stays blank.
Update, : Babylon.js 9.33.0, released on 29 October, includes the fix. On our test page its HtmlTexture with default settings drew in Chrome 157 and 158, so upgrade to 9.33.0 and drop the extra update() call; with 9.33.0 that early call only logs an "HTML-in-Canvas: the native upload failed" warning. For PlayCanvas, 2.24.0-beta.24 drew the HTML texture in Chrome 157 and 158 on our test page, with WebGL2 and with WebGPU, when the canvas has content="drawable" and the element has drawable. With only the old layoutsubtree attribute, Chrome threw an InvalidStateError instead. The latest stable PlayCanvas release is still 2.23.3, which stays blank. PixiJS and three.js have no released fix yet.
Update, : three.js 0.187.0, released on 30 October, still uses only the old names. On our test page its HTMLTexture drew nothing in Chrome 157 and 158, with nothing in the console, and drew in Chrome 156 with the feature switched on, the same as 0.186. Upgrading three.js does not fix this yet: pull request #34732, which moves HTMLTexture to the new API, was still open on 30 October. Babylon.js 9.33.1, released on 29 October, has the same new-name code as 9.33.0; we read its build but did not run it.
Update, : PixiJS merged its fix (pull request #12341) on 30 October. On our test page, a PixiJS development build that includes the merged fix (8.22.0-dev.4fabfa6) drew the HTML texture in Chrome 157 and 158, with WebGL and with WebGPU, and also when the element sat one level deeper inside the canvas, with no error. On 30 October no PixiJS release had the fix yet (the latest on npm was 8.22.0), which stays blank, so watch for the next PixiJS release. For Babylon.js 9.32.0, a later run of the same test setup, on two added pages, found a workaround: calling the texture's update() yourself, once after creating it and again after each change to the element, made it draw in Chrome 157 and 158 on our small test page, through Babylon's SVG fallback rather than the new API (code and results are in our note, listed in the sources). This entry includes no workaround for PlayCanvas or PixiJS, so watch their releases. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Update, : Google promoted Chrome 157 to Stable (157.0.8103.38 for Linux, 157.0.8103.38/.39 for Windows and Mac), and the old names have not come back. We reran our test pages on Chrome 157.0.8103.38, the build Linux Stable serves, and every page gave the same result as in Beta 157 on 23 October: three.js 0.186.0, PlayCanvas 2.23.3 and Babylon.js 9.32.0 drew nothing and logged nothing, PixiJS 8.22.0 drew nothing and showed its error, and our test pages written with the new names drew, as did the three.js pull request (the 2D page, which has no transform check, still threw its error after drawing). On 3 November only Babylon.js had a release with the fix (9.33.0 and later). PixiJS's fix was merged but not released (the latest on npm was 8.22.0), PlayCanvas's was only in 2.24.0 beta builds (the latest release was 2.23.3), and three.js 0.187.0 still used the old names, with pull request #34732 still open. Executed by us; not independently reproduced.
Source: Chrome Platform Status: HTML-in-canvas (ship milestone 157), Chromium Dash: release schedule (Chrome 157 stable 3 November 2026), Chrome Releases: early Stable update for desktop (Windows, 22 October 2026), Chrome Releases: Chrome 157 for Android to a small share of users (23 October 2026), Chrome Releases: Chrome 157 promoted to Stable for desktop (3 November 2026), WICG html-in-canvas: breaking change announcement (issue 174), Chrome for Developers: HTML-in-Canvas origin trial (launch post), three.js pull request 34732: HTMLTexture on the new API (open), CyberNative AI note: Chrome 157 HTML-in-Canvas tests (pages, raw results and the Babylon.js update() workaround), PlayCanvas pull request 9824: support the HTML-in-Canvas names shipping in Chrome 157 (merged into main; in beta 2.24.0-beta.24, not in a stable release), Babylon.js pull request 19052: fix HtmlTexture rendering with the current HTML-in-Canvas APIs (merged 27 October 2026; released in 9.33.0 on 29 October 2026), Babylon.js forum: blank HtmlTexture on Chrome 157 (moderator reply, 25 October 2026), PlayCanvas 2.24.0-beta.24 on npm (beta with the new names, published 28 October 2026), PixiJS pull request 12341: support the new HTML-in-Canvas API (merged 30 October 2026; not in a release), CyberNative AI test result: PixiJS pull request 12341 in Chrome 157 and 158 (comment on PixiJS issue 12340), Babylon.js 9.33.0 on npm (release with the fix, published 29 October 2026), CyberNative AI test result: Babylon.js 9.33.0 in Chrome 157 and 158 (reply on the Babylon.js forum), three.js 0.187.0 on npm (published 30 October 2026; old names only), PixiJS 8.22.0-dev.4fabfa6 on npm (development build with the merged fix, published 30 October 2026). Checked . Link to this entry
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Data APIs 3 November 2026, on or after 12:00 UTC
NOAA ends the NAM weather model: downloads stop
On or after 3 November 2026 at 12:00 UTC, NOAA's NCEP stops running the NAM, SREF, HREF and HiresW forecast models and NAM MOS (HiresW Guam continues). NOAA has moved this date three times since its first notice in May. If 3 November is declared a Critical Weather Day or an Enhanced Caution Event, or significant weather is expected, the change moves to 12:00 UTC on the next weekday that is not a Critical Weather Day and has no significant weather. The files under nomads
.ncep .noaa .gov/ pub/ data/ nccf/ com/ {nam, sref, href, hiresw, nam_mos}/ prod/, the matching NOMADS grib filters, and the feeds that mirror them stop getting new runs. RRFS and REFS replace them on the same day. Guide
Who is affected, how to check and the fix: NOAA ends NAM: forecast downloads stop
- Who is affected
Scripts, apps and models that download NAM-family forecasts in real time. On 19 October 2026, our GitHub scan found NAM-family download-path matches in 85 active public repositories (pushed since 19 October 2025); 50 of them had no RRFS mention in the files scanned. We then read those 50 matches, using rules written after seeing the scan: 28 had code, not a test or a comment, that builds or requests a NAM-family download path (24 codebases, counting copies of the same code once). They include open-meteo, Iowa Environmental Mesonet scripts, WindNinja, BC Wildfire Predictive Services, wrfxpy, SCHISM utilities and RASP soaring forecasts. We did not run any of this code, and some of these paths may already be out of use. The scan covered default branches without forks and left out 12 very large repositories and some large files, so it does not count every NAM user; a project that mentions RRFS has not necessarily switched.
- How to check
From your repository root, search for NAM-family download addresses. Read each match: code that reads past dates, for example from the AWS noaa-nam-pds archive, does not need new NAM runs. Code that asks for a fresh run gets no new NAM run after the retirement, and a “latest” or “Best” lookup may return old data instead of an error.
grep -rnE \ -e 'nccf/com/(nam|sref|href|hiresw|nam_mos)/' \ -e 'gribfilter\.php\?ds=(nam|sref|href|hires)' \ -e 'filter_(nam|sref|hires|href)[a-z_]*\.pl' \ -e 'NCEP/(NAM|SREF|HREF)/' \ -e 'noaa-(nam|href|sref)-pds' .- Fix
Guide
Choose the replacement for the product you use: RRFS for NAM and HiresW, REFS for HREF (NOAA lists SREF as replaced by the two together), then check its domain, grid, lead times and fields. Both are already published at nomads
.ncep .noaa .gov/ pub/ data/ nccf/ com/ rrfs/ para/ and refs/para/, which NOAA's notice moves to rrfs/prod/ and refs/prod/ when the change takes effect; RRFS is also in the AWS bucket noaa-rrfs-ops-pds. RRFS surface fields are in the 2dfld files (rrfs .tCCz .2dfld .3km .fFFF .conus .grib2); prslev holds pressure levels. The CONUS 3 km grid reaches only the southern edge of British Columbia; for British Columbia, use the Alaska 3 km (ak) or North America 13 km (na) files. On 19 October NOMADS had no RRFS grib filter; the .idx files allow byte-range downloads. In one cycle's file lists (NAM 12 km awphys12, 19 October 00Z, against RRFS 3 km prslev and 2dfld, 18 October 00Z, both f012), 2 m temperature, dew point and humidity, 10 m wind, gust, precipitation, reflectivity and CAPE keep their GRIB names, but a matching name does not prove a field can be swapped in. Precipitation comes as two records per file, the last hour and the run total, not NAM's 3- and 12-hour buckets. There is no PRMSL (RRFS provides MSLET; check it meets your needs) and no ACPCP, and soil comes at 9 depths instead of NAM's 4 layers, so WRF's Vtable.NAM cannot read it unchanged. We compared files only and did not run this switch against any project's code.
Source: NWS Service Change Notice 26-47, updated: termination of the NAM, SREF, HREF, HiresW and NAM MOS, effective 3 November 2026, NWS Service Change Notice 26-48, updated: implementation of RRFS and REFS, effective 3 November 2026, NOMADS: RRFS file directory (rrfs/para). Checked . Link to this entry
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