End of Life is a Blind Spot for Open-Source Packages in Your Supply Chain

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0530

By the time you discover a dependency is abandoned, it’s usually already a liability. Here’s why EOL detection can’t be a metadata lookup and what to do instead.

Your CI/CD pipeline is scanning for vulnerabilities. Your SCA tool is checking licenses. Your SBOM is up to date. But there’s a question none of those tools are consistently answering:

Is this open-source package still being maintained and if not, when did it stop?

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End of Life is a Blind Spot for Open-Source Packages in Your Supply Chain