We need to talk about Test Related Open Source Software Deprecations

For those of us responsible for maintaining test automation frameworks, its important we keep abreast of changes to open source software we embed and use such as:-

  • Deprecation
    • Major upgrades
    • Archived/Moved Repos
    • Major security issues

I have noticed a trend that in the past couple of months several such changes have appeared for QE related tools/libraries such as:-

Extent Report formally discontinued Jan 2025: [Goodbye Extent Report: Introducing ChainTest for Next-Level Automation Reporting - Trending in Testing - Global Software Testing News](https

Cucumber moved back into open source Stewardship Dec 2024 - [Cucumberโ€™s Next Chapter: A Community-Driven Future](Cucumberโ€™s Next Chapter: A Community-Driven Future

Selenoid repo archived
Dec 2024
: GitHub - aerokube/selenoid: Selenium Hub successor running browsers within containers. Scalable, immutable, self hosted Selenium-Grid on any platform with single binary.

SpecFlow end of life Jan 2025: [SpecFlow end-of-life has been announced โ€ข Reqnroll]

Selenium Greed vulnerability July 2024: Protecting unsecured Selenium Grids against SeleniumGreed | Selenium:confused:

Iโ€™ve heard about these things through a variety of different means (from Bluesky to work chats, to Ministry of testing posts, to LinkedIn or even testing newsletters) but it would be great if there were a community maintained list of thing, or is it just to big an area to achieve this?

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