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Google has moved the Smart Campaign API creation cutoff to September 23. New create operations will fail, while existing campaigns can still be updated and served; Google points developers toward Performance Max, Search or Demand Gen for new automation.
Manifest V2 was already disabled for modern Chrome users. The August 31 change closes the remaining Web Store path, turning any still-pinned legacy install into an effectively frozen artifact with no Store update or reinstall route.
The deadline is no longer theoretical: browsers, Git HTTPS backends and API clients that still depend on SHA-1-era TLS algorithms can now lose connectivity to GitHub.com.
R2’s new `us` jurisdiction gives object-storage users an explicit US data-residency guarantee, with jurisdiction-specific S3 endpoints and Workers bindings. Existing unrestricted buckets cannot simply be flipped into the new jurisdiction because jurisdiction is immutable after creation.
Cloudflare Tunnel changes how Access-protected ingress rules match dot segments and repeated slashes. Opt in now; test before the January 25 default flip.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supersedes the old Flash and Vision-Exp API lines with native multimodality, lower pricing and new architecture. Unlike those retired Flash aliases, the current DeepSeek API changelog and rate card still show V4 Pro as a distinct service.
The replacement is not a drop-in path rename: Cloudflare separates domain search, availability checks and registration operations into newer endpoints, so old registrar automation can break after the cutoff.
The GA matters less as a label than as an architecture boundary. New Cloudflare WAN and Magic Transit deployments are now recommended onto a single routing fabric spanning Cloudflare One Client, Tunnel, IPsec, GRE and CNI, while legacy routing lacks several of the newer traffic-steering capabilities.
Azure’s old PostgreSQL versions do not switch off on September 1, but they do become a paid legacy choice. Extended Support is automatic, billed by vCore-hour for running servers, and cannot be declined while an unsupported engine version remains in use.
Cursor has become a concrete example of coding-tool supplier risk: a corporate acquisition can trigger a frontier-model provider’s change-of-control rights and remove a major model family from the product even when the coding tool itself remains operational.
DigitalOcean’s MySQL 8.0 support window now has a hard operational endpoint. Existing managed clusters need application and schema compatibility testing before October 30 because the provider will move them to 8.4 during maintenance rather than leave 8.0 running indefinitely.
ParticleDB's claimed ACID guarantees failed Jepsen tests: acknowledged writes disappeared, queries returned wrong rows, and even healthy single-node tests exposed integrity faults.
Effect 4's performance and LTS claims remain, but 4.0.2 explicitly marks some formerly unlabelled APIs unstable without changing their current behavior, signatures or types.
Google Ads' new channel-priority controls offer a way to test Search partners and Display without giving them unrestricted budget, but the limits are not guarantees and Demand Gen has no allocation caps.
X’s replacement creator program is now live enough to expose a new dependency: U.S. creators must route Original Content Rewards payouts through X Money, and one X Money account can connect to only one X account. Eligibility and qualified-impression rules remain unchanged.
The interesting change is not another desktop-shell release. Noctalia has moved plugin logic away from the older QML-centric model into isolated scripting runtimes, creating a clearer extension boundary while still treating plugins as trusted code.
GitHub OAuth apps can now use eight-hour access tokens with rotating refresh tokens, register up to 10 callback URLs, and explicitly control wildcard callback matching. New apps default to expiring tokens, while existing single-callback apps should review a legacy wildcard setting GitHub has now made visible.
GitHub Actions dependency lockfiles are now GA, turning the October preview into a supported workflow-integrity control across eligible plans.
Retailers and commerce-tool developers can now query first-party UCP shopping funnels rather than infer agentic checkout performance from traffic alone, but the alpha API needs careful query design.
TorchNeuron changes the software portability equation for Trainium, making it easier to test non-NVIDIA AI accelerators without rewriting the model stack. Beta gaps still demand model-by-model verification.