diff --git a/.release-notes/fedora-39.md b/.release-notes/fedora-39.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce04aad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-notes/fedora-39.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+## Drop Fedora 39 support
+
+Fedora 39 has reached its end of life date. We've dropped it as a supported platform for `ponyc` and `ponyup`.
+
+For `ponyup` that means, we no longer test against it when doing CI. Additinally, new installations of `ponyup` on Fedora 39 and related platforms won't recognize it as a supported package. If you install `ponyup` on such a platform, you'll need to set the platform to `fedora39` yourself.
+
+For `ponyc` the lack of support means that if you are using `ponyup` on Fedora 39 that it won't be able to install any version of `ponyc` from the point that we stopped supporting Fedora 39 for `ponyc`. Any `ponyc` from 0.58.8 on will not be able to be installed via `ponyup` and will need to instead be built from source.
diff --git a/ponyup-init.sh b/ponyup-init.sh
index fff5e07..d64269e 100755
--- a/ponyup-init.sh
+++ b/ponyup-init.sh
@@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ Linux*)
     ;;
   *x86_64-redhat-linux)
     case "$(lsb_release -d)" in
-    *"Fedora Linux 39"*)
-      platform_triple_distro="fedora39"
-      ;;
     *"Fedora Linux 41"*)
       platform_triple_distro="fedora41"
       ;;