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Changelog

Colloquial is always getting better — here's how.

by Chris Haskett
Features

Track support lifecycles with endoflife.date

  • Link a Fact Card to any product or release on endoflife.date
  • Support dates, latest version and LTS status arrive as read-only facts
  • Refreshed every day, so the dates never go stale
  • Colloquial suggests a match when it spots one

Knowing that a technology is in your estate is only half of it. Knowing how long it is supported for is the half that drives the work.

Search endoflife.date from the Fact Card — products and releases both — and link the one that matches. From then on the card carries five facts drawn straight from that source: Standard Support, Extended Support, Latest Version, Actively Maintained and Long Term Support (LTS).

  • Those facts are read-only on purpose. They are marked as linked, and the card points at where the value actually comes from, so nobody has to wonder whether a date was typed in by hand two years ago.

  • Colloquial mirrors endoflife.date once a day and re-derives the facts on every linked card from the new data. A version going out of support shows up on your cards without anyone remembering to check.

  • When you open Fill in the Facts on an unlinked card, Colloquial looks for a likely match by name and offers it as a suggestion. It is a suggestion, not a guess it acts on — you confirm the data point before anything is linked.

  • Linking is a curator-and-above action, and admins can turn the connector off for the whole organisation.