Early Jan, OutSystems announced the End of Life for the widely used Silk UI framework. We are aware that OutSystems evolved Silk UI into an even better OutSystems UI, that allowed us to reuse the components. However, the discontinuation of SilkUI raises concerns about older traditional web applications and their future and support going forward.

We as partners/customers received the below communication:

1. Starting March 2022, Silk UI will no longer be a supported OutSystems framework.
   • The following components will lose it’s support status:
     1. Silk UI Web;
     2. Dublin Template;
     3. Lisbon Template;
     4. Liverpool Template;
     5. Vanilla Template.
   • All these components will become full open-source, which means that updating to an upcoming version, each Silk UI component will no longer be a system component, and you will be able to open and change these components
   • Supporting sites and content will be put offline. These include:
     1. The Silk UI microsite;
     2. Documentation;
     3. Public facing assets that mention Silk UI, like youtube videos on the OutSystems account.
2. Beginning in June 2022, Silk UI will become a deprecated component, which means new customers are discouraged from installing Silk UI on fresh installations. However,
   • Applications currently using Silk UI will continue to work as usual;
   • Customers using Silk UI can keep using it becoming owners of the component in their private application portfolio.

With these changes, we encourage all our current customers to consider modernizing their portfolio by adopting reactive applications as their first option for building new applications. How 

• the community is reacting to this change (in a good way;-))
• you are preparing/mentoring/advising customers who are not willing to undergo another assignment of migrating to reactive application
• ensuring the apps keep running and have no impact (in a long run) due to this change

Regards,

Swatantra