Questions tagged [end-of-life]

A term used with respect to terminating the sale or support of products and services.

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angularjs 1.x support lifecycle and end-of-life

I am currently managing an AngularJS development project. There is talk that we need to move to at least AngularJS 1.5 from our current 1.2. One of my requirements to move is that I have to provide evidence of the end of support for 1.5 but cannot…
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A company that had a successful product but went bust for not innovating?

At the company that I work we have a successful software product that did well but is now obsolete and unmaintainable. I am trying to explain that you need to innovate and replace this product with new offering in order to survive. I am looking for…
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Is there an automated way to determine (or find) end of life/end of support notices for libraries?

Is there an automated way to determine or find the end of life (EOL)/end of support (EOS) notices for libraries? The specific context behind this: Our software uses about 50+ libraries as well as a few platforms. What I can't seem to find is an…
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Is there a documented life cycle for which Android versions receive security updates?

Is there any official life cycle for Android versions in terms of which versions receive security patches each month? If you look at the latest security bulletin it appears 8.0 is still receiving patches but I would like to know for how much longer…
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Will classic ASP pages run on versions of Windows past Windows 7?

We have a legacy system that uses both classic ASP and VB6/COM+, and are planning a migration to the .NET stack. We are attempting to develop a migration schedule, and one key driving point will be "when will our old stuff stop working?". For…
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State of libspotify in 2017

I know that libspotify will no longer get any support and is replaced by webapis. I do not have any problems with this because libspotify usability is just bad and there are a lot of unfixed bug as well as lots of missing features. However, there is…
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Can Vue 2 (or any other front-end framework) be sustainability (securely) used after End-Of-Life (EOL)?

When using Vue as a detached SPA, surely there aren't going to be any major 'vulnerabilities' discovered after its EOL in Dec 2023. My use of Vue is as a detached front-end SPA, with an Express REST API backend, practically all the 'risk' is in the…
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when is the Spring Framework 4 EOL?

I wanna know about the EOL of Spring framework4 version. I searched many things, but they are all different. (Results what I found are ~ 2019. 12. 31 or ~2020. 12. 31) If I can take some latest updates, I`m very happy about that :-) Thanks.
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Proposing Glassfish to customers

With Sun being taken over by Oracle, Oracle will arguably gain control of Glassfish. I do understand that Glassfish is community driven but most of the contributions do come out of Sun at this time. Its a great App Server and perfect for many…
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What is the EOL (End of Life) for Rails 2.3?

What is the EOL date for Rails 2.3?
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Is there any reasonable and functioning fork of the Atom editor?

I've recently discovered, that GitHub is no longer maintaining the Atom Editor. The packages can no longer be installed, as this service has already been shut down. I love the Atom Editor and I do not want to use Visual Studio Code, like suggested…
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Will Rails 3.2 be still supported after the 4.1 release?

Are there any policies or official statements, when Rails 3.2 will reach its end of life?
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How to determine web application end of life?

This question could bring a lot of opinions to the table, but what I will like to get is a set of measures that will help me and my company determine the end of life of a product that we sell. We sell a CMS system, with this system we create a few…
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How to make the flash executable work after January 12, 2021?

The Flash EOL is January 12, 2021. Does the Flash Player executable actually stop Flash from working or is it something that can be stopped by Group Policy (in the case of a browser) or WSUS Updates in the case of the up-coming update? And if so -…
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How do you decommission a GitHub project?

An organization I work with has a project on GitHub that no one outside the organization has used and we are end-of-lifeing it. I see there is a great big delete button, but I wonder if there is a way to freeze the project so it can never be…
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