Postmark’s new IP Allowlisting creates an extra sending boundary around API credentials: trusted infrastructure can send normally, while requests from outside configured ranges fail even if the token itself is valid. SMTP is not covered.
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.
The Assistants API shutdown date has passed. OpenAI’s deprecation documentation lists August 26, 2026 as the removal date and directs developers to Responses and Conversations for replacement workloads.
Custom Flows became generally available in GitLab 19.2; 19.3 adds the missing authoring layer. Flow Creator reads current Flow Registry docs, applies known failure rules and generates a runnable flow from plain English. Builders still need to review, register and govern the automation rather than treating generated YAML as trusted infrastructure.