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Oracle JDK 21 updates leave the free NFTC licence with the 20 October 2026 Critical Patch Update. Oracle's subscription starts at $15 per employee per month, but three of the four ways out cost nothing.
Laravel 11 stopped receiving security fixes on 12 March 2026 and Laravel 12 left bug-fix support on 13 August 2026. Most Laravel quotes ignore the support calendar entirely. Here is the version math a buyer should ask
Node 18 and 20 have reached end of life, Next.js 15 ends October 21, 2026, and React Native, Flutter and iOS enforce migrations this year. A 2026 playbook for modernizing an aging web or mobile stack.
Most modernization fails on delivery risk, not technology. Here are five patterns that cut that risk in 2026, framed as a platform engineering playbook, from strangler fig to DORA-metric guardrails.
