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Oracle JDK 21 updates left the free NFTC licence with the 20 October 2026 Critical Patch Update. Oracle's subscription now starts at $100 a year, and three of the four ways out cost nothing.
Manu Shukla 
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
Manu Shukla 
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.
Manu Shukla 
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.
Manu Shukla 