generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: >-
  GitHub Releases on github.com/EMCECS/ECS-CommunityEdition (read via the GitHub API on
  2026-08-29), github.com/dell/PyU4V version.py, and the Dell Technologies Security and
  Trust Center. No developer-facing API changelog or deprecation policy is published for
  either EMC management API.
provider: EMC
providerId: emc
description: >-
  Lifecycle posture for the EMC management APIs. These are appliance APIs: the version a
  customer runs is the version of the array in their own data centre, so lifecycle here is
  a product-release story rather than a hosted-API deprecation story. That distinction is
  the reason several of the fields below are honestly empty rather than filled in.
versioning:
  ecs:
    scheme: platform release (major.minor.patch.build)
    current_platform_release: ECS 3.8.1.4
    successor_platform: ObjectScale 4.0.0.0
    api_versions_supported: [v2, v3, v4]
    in_url: false
    note: >-
      The ECS Management API version is not carried in the URL path. EMC's own client
      selects v2/v3/v4 at construction and swaps the module tree behind identical wire
      paths, so an agent cannot determine from a request which API contract an array will
      apply.
  unisphere:
    scheme: numeric API version
    current: '104'
    release: Unisphere 10.4.0
    in_url: false
    note: >-
      Unisphere pins an explicit numeric API version, overridable per connection. This is
      the stronger of the two versioning models and the one an integrator can actually
      target.
deprecation_policy:
  published: false
  sunset_header: not implemented
  deprecation_header: not implemented
  rfc8594: false
  note: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset or Deprecation header is emitted, and no API deprecation policy is
    published on any reachable Dell or EMC surface. Product end-of-life is announced
    through Dell's product support lifecycle pages per array model, not per API version.
    No Deprecation pointer is emitted in apis.yml, because there is no policy to point at.
status_page:
  published: false
  probed:
    - url: https://status.dell.com/
      status: '000 — host does not resolve'
  note: >-
    There is no EMC or Dell API status page, and structurally there could not usefully be
    one: ECS and Unisphere run on customer-owned hardware in customer data centres, so
    availability is the customer's own, not a shared service EMC could report on. No
    StatusPage pointer is emitted.
sla:
  published: false
  note: >-
    Support entitlements are contracted per array through Dell ProSupport rather than
    published as an API SLA.
platform_release_history:
  source: https://github.com/EMCECS/ECS-CommunityEdition/releases
  note: >-
    EMC's ECS Community Edition repository tags each release against the ECS (or
    ObjectScale) platform build it installs, which makes it the only publicly dated
    release trail for the platform behind the ECS Management API.
  releases:
    - tag: v2.9.1-3.8.1.4
      date: '2025-05-20'
      platform: ECS 3.8.1.4
    - tag: v2.9.1-4.0.0.0
      date: '2025-03-13'
      platform: ObjectScale 4.0.0.0
      note: First ObjectScale-branded build — the successor platform to ECS.
    - tag: v2.9.1-3.8.1.3
      date: '2025-01-09'
      platform: ECS 3.8.1.3
    - tag: v2.9.1-3.8.1.2
      date: '2025-01-09'
      platform: ECS 3.8.1.2
    - tag: v2.9.1-3.8.0.3
      date: '2023-11-06'
      platform: ECS 3.8.0.3
    - tag: v2.9.1-3.8.0.1
      date: '2022-12-15'
      platform: ECS 3.8.0.1
    - tag: 2.9.1-3.7.0.0
      date: '2022-03-02'
      platform: ECS 3.7.0.0
    - tag: 2.9.1-1
      date: '2021-08-05'
      platform: ECS 3.6.2.0
    - tag: 2.9.1-r-2
      date: '2021-07-28'
      platform: ECS 3.6.1.2
    - tag: v2.9.1-3.6.0.1
      date: '2021-06-15'
      platform: ECS 3.6.0.1
    - tag: 2.9.1-3.5.0.0
      date: '2021-06-15'
      platform: ECS 3.5.0.0
    - tag: 2.9.1-3.4.0.0
      date: '2019-11-05'
      platform: ECS 3.4.0.0
brand_lifecycle:
  finding: >-
    The EMC brand itself is mid-transition. EMC was acquired by Dell Technologies in 2016;
    the storage line is now marketed as Dell PowerStore/PowerScale/PowerMax/PowerFlex, and
    ECS — the platform behind the ECS Management REST API — has a named successor in
    ObjectScale, whose 4.0.0.0 build shipped in March 2025 and which has its own Terraform
    provider (dell/objectscale 1.1.0, published 2026-06-24). An integrator choosing a
    target today should know the ECS Management API is on the trailing side of that
    transition.
gaps:
  - No API-level deprecation policy, Sunset header, or breaking-change notice channel.
  - No status page (and none would be meaningful for a customer-hosted appliance).
  - >-
    Product end-of-life dates are published per array on Dell's support site, which
    returns 403 to non-browser clients, so they were not machine-readable from this run.