endoflife-date/endoflife.date
Endoflife.date
This project is a product support database and software version metadata registry that tracks release and discontinuation timelines for software and consumer electronics hardware. It provides a programmatic software lifecycle API for retrieving end-of-life and support dates via JSON.
The project maps software products to standardized identifiers, including CPE, Repology, and PURL, to ensure cross-ecosystem identification. It also includes a runtime compatibility mapper that matches software versions to their minimum required compatible runtimes and dependencies.
The system transforms lifecycle data into RSS and iCalendar feeds for subscription-based notifications and calendar synchronization. Data is served via a static site and a flat-file JSON API.
Features
- Support Status Tracking - Provides a comprehensive database for monitoring the support status and end-of-life timelines of software versions.
- Lifecycle Support Monitors - Tracks software version lifecycles and support availability to help plan upgrades and security patches.
- Versioned Metadata Tracking - Maintains a registry of standardized CPE and PURL identifiers linked to product version history.
- Product Identifiers - Implements standardized CPE, Repology, and PURL identifiers to ensure consistent product mapping across ecosystems.
- Static JSON Stores - Uses version-controlled JSON files as a static, read-only data store for all lifecycle metadata.
- Product Support Databases - Maintains a comprehensive repository of release and discontinuation timelines for software and consumer electronics.
- Software Lifecycle APIs - Provides a programmatic JSON interface for retrieving end-of-life and support dates for software and hardware.
- Cross-Ecosystem Product Identifiers - Maps software products to standardized CPE, Repology, and PURL identifiers to ensure consistent cross-ecosystem identification.
- Support Timeline Tracking - Monitors release and end-of-life dates for software and hardware to plan necessary upgrades.
- Support Status Auditing - Uses standardized identifiers like CPE and PURL to verify the support status of specific software versions.
- Metadata Integration APIs - Provides a programmatic JSON interface for integrating software lifecycle and support dates into external tools.
- Calendar Integrations - Synchronizes software support and expiration dates with personal or team schedules via calendar feeds.
- Calendar Feed Generation - Transforms raw lifecycle data into iCalendar and RSS feeds for external calendar synchronization.
- Runtime Version Mappings - Maps software versions to their minimum required compatible runtimes to ensure environment stability.
- Version and Compatibility Management - Matches software versions with compatible runtimes and framework versions to ensure stable environment configurations.
- Version Compatibility Utilities - Provides structured metadata that links software releases to compatible runtime versions for dependency verification.
- Hardware Lifecycle Tracking - Provides end-of-life dates and support timelines for consumer electronics and specialized hardware devices.
- Runtime Version Compatibility - Matches software versions to their minimum required compatible runtimes and dependencies.
- Lifecycle Calendar Feeds - Exports software end-of-life dates into calendar formats for visibility in schedules.
- Lifecycle Notification Feeds - Offers RSS and iCalendar feeds to notify users of upcoming end-of-life events and support date changes.
- Lifecycle Notifications - Exports software end-of-life dates in iCalendar format for synchronization with organizational calendars.
