Changes to DO and AS3 GitHub - no longer monitored

Good morning, Folks, I am the PM who implemented the changes on behalf of leadership. Let me address the changes. 

No—this is not a signal that BIG-IP tooling is going away. These changes are part of aligning the Automation Toolchain with the broader BIG-IP Tools initiative. Moving images, RPMs, and related software to MyF5 Downloads aligns with how F5 distributes its products today and helps ensure that F5 software is available in a single, centralized location rather than spread across multiple sites. This improves consistency and supports security and governance requirements.

Similarly, removing the GitHub Issues tab is intended to reduce shadow support and route issue resolution through the appropriate support and engineering channels. Having PMs solely manage GitHub issues did not scale well and was not the right long-term model for timely, well-supported resolution. The goal is to connect customers with the engineering resources and formal support processes needed to address issues more effectively.

Overall, the change is better understood as consolidation and operational maturity, not a broader loss of BIG-IP tooling. We are also rolling out the next generation of APIs on BIG-IP that address the challenges introduced with AS3. The deprecation notices you are seeing may be related to the same effort to streamline distribution, support, and lifecycle management across the BIG-IP Tools portfolio. Please don't hesitate to reach out for a call and roadmap review. 

Juergen_Mang​, MJ_1024​, carlbidwell268​, juanboticari0​, kuhlenkamp​, zdenekzemba​ 

This change annoys me. It makes working with declarations unnecessarily complicated. Where we can grab the current schema file in the future?

And how we can get information about a new release? I do not want to poll the download site recurring.

Already noticing some disruption in usage, the old way of obtaining updated Schema file , and using it to validate against files offline no longer works.

This old link is now out of date, only covers up to v1.47 of DO, not the updated v1.48 that is available from downloads.f5.com :

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/F5Networks/f5-declarative-onboarding/main/src/schema/latest/base.schema.json

I understand right this moment this is minimal impact (from what I can tell, only a small bugfix in v1.48) but this problem will compound.
If anyone at F5 can provide an alternative way to obtain updated schema files (or even update documentation pages over at clouddocs.f5.com which also still only show v1.47) I am all ears.

Yeah, you’re not the only one reading into this; it does feel like a quiet shift rather than a clearly announced change. From what’s visible, AS3 and DO have already been moving toward a more “maintenance/LTS” style lifecycle for a while, with fewer feature updates and more compatibility-focused releases . So the GitHub “no longer monitored” notice seems less like a sudden kill switch and more like F5 formalizing what was already happening behind the scenes.

I wouldn’t expect an immediate break in existing setups; these tools are still widely used and should continue working; but it’s a pretty strong signal to start planning around newer approaches (Central Manager, BIG-IP Next, or API-driven automation). The lack of a big announcement is frustrating, but historically F5 has been shifting direction gradually rather than making hard deprecation calls upfront. Here is another discussion where you can add value: 

https://community.f5.com/discussions/technicalforum/f5-big-ip-source-dnsaudit-logs-%E2%80%94-structured-format-for-siem-ingestion/346115

Apparently they will be introducing a new declarative API in BIG-IP 21.1.

Source: https://www.f5.com/es_es/company/blog/a-sneak-peek-into-f5-big-ip-v21-1-ai-security-pqc-and-software-enhancements

yes, need a bot ID or something that can download from F5. I don't know if that is possible currently....

I do not like this change. My current pipelines are downloading the RPM's from GitHub. With the move to myF5 Downloads that would not be possible anymore.

I vote for a possibility to download files from myF5 without going through the current login process. This would be also great for other files like Attack Signatures.

Hello MJ_1024​ 

Thank you for posting this, I am reaching out to see if I can get some information for you. 

-Melissa 

I agree. What is going on here? 

Should we stop using DO & AS3 in favor of something else? 

Please provide guidance. 

Noticed that as well, lets see whether we get some more info... Thx for pointing this out