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Offer: self-updating EOL badge for your supported-versions table

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Description

Hi — I noticed you maintain LoopBack’s own long-term support table by hand in your README and SECURITY.md. We run [endoflife.ai](https://endoflife.ai) (lifecycle data for 488 products, built on the [endoflife.date](https://endoflife.date) community dataset — we're contributors) and publish free Shields.io endpoint badges that show live support status:

[![LoopBack EOL](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendoflife.ai%2Fbadge%2Floopback.json)](https://endoflife.ai/loopback)

```markdown
[![LoopBack EOL](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fendoflife.ai%2Fbadge%2Floopback.json)](https://endoflife.ai/loopback)
```

When a version reaches end of life, the badge updates itself — no README edits, no CI. There are per-version badges too (e.g. pin the *minimum* version you support, so the badge flips the day your floor goes EOL). No signup, no tracking, no API keys — they're static JSON endpoints in the [Shields endpoint format](https://shields.io/badges/endpoint-badge), regenerated nightly from vendor lifecycle policies.

If it's useful, the copy-paste snippet for your stack is one click at [endoflife.ai/badge](https://endoflife.ai/badge); if not, feel free to close this — no hard feelings. Not affiliated with any of your dependencies; just trying to make EOL status visible where people actually look. (Background: [why we built these](https://dev.to/endoflifeai/one-badge-that-tells-your-users-when-your-dependencies-die-1gbj).)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Review the manually maintained supported-versions tables in README and SECURITY.md, then compare them with the proposed Shields.io endpoint badge snippet. Confirm where a badge would belong and whether the external endoflife.ai data is acceptable; done means the maintainers approve a specific documentation change or close the proposal.

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Assessment

Tech stack
markdown
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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