Cross-posting from github issue 508 to reach the forum audience.
Is it possible to reverse this decision? Cisco is still developing, shipping, and supporting Cisco ASA software in all their recent Firewall hardware as well as Virtual cloud-based ASA software. Example of continued support: Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series is a very recent hardware firewall platform supporting ASA software including version 9.22.x first released in September 2024.
The ASA software is still used by Cisco customers including myself in part because of the text-based configuration files and ease of automation with the Ansible Cisco ASA collection.
Has the collection been abandoned by its former maintainers? This Ansible cisco.asa Deprecation announcement references the Cisco EOL announcement for ASA 9.8.x software release train only. Cisco announces EOL for Old software release trains to help customers plan to migrate to newer software such as the latest ASA 9.22.x mentioned in my comments above. Cisco also reserves the latest ASA software release trains for their latest hardware to push customers to migrate off of older hardware - see the release notes for 9.22.x linked above which shows which hardware platforms are not compatible with 9.22.x.