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
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- Major upgrades
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- Archived/Moved Repos
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- 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 - [Cucumberโs Next Chapter: A Community-Driven Future](Cucumberโs 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 โข Reqnroll]
Selenium Greed vulnerability July 2024: Protecting unsecured Selenium Grids against SeleniumGreed | Selenium
Iโve 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?