Slack feature retirements
In order to make room for new improvements and provide the best user experience, Slack will occasionally retire a feature from the product. We'll always do our best to provide advanced notice and recommend alternatives to admins and affected members before saying a final farewell to any feature.
Upcoming Slack feature retirements
apt-key for Linux
Announcement date | October 4, 2023 |
Retirement date | April 2024 |
Note |
The apt-key method for managing repository keys will be deprecated with the release of Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04. To ensure your cron job script continues to work on all distros, we recommend updating your existing script to WIP
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Status | Announced |
Google Calendar for Team Events app
Announcement date | September 2022 |
Retirement date | September 10th, 2024 |
Note | The Google Calendar app now offers support for channel and team calendar notifications. |
Status | Announced |
Legacy Workflow Builder
Announcement date | September 6, 2023 |
Retirement date | September 12, 2024 |
Note |
Legacy Workflow Builder will no longer be available to create workflows. All previously created legacy workflows will be migrated, and new workflows will be created with the new version of Workflow Builder.
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Status | Announced |
Posts deprecation
Announcement date | September 6, 2023 |
Retirement date | March 2024 |
Note |
Any existing posts in your workspace will convert to canvases. On Free workspaces, converted posts will be view-only and you will no longer be able to create new posts.
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Status | Announced |
Retired features
Stars and reminders API
Announcement date | July 6, 2023 |
Retirement date | September 2023 |
Note | Stars and Reminders have been replaced by Later. All related stars.* API methods and events will be retired. Learn more about breaking changes to related API methods. |
Status | Retired |
Twitter app
Announcement date | October 18, 2023 |
Retirement date | October 19, 2023 |
Note |
The Twitter app for Slack is no longer available due to upstream API limitations. Going forward, links to posts from X (formerly known as Tweets) will continue to unfurl if permitted by your Slack settings.
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Status | Retired |
Recurring scheduled exports (Daily)
Announcement date | May 24, 2023 |
Retirement date | July 31, 2023 |
Note | For performance and infrastructural improvements, customers running daily scheduled exports will be moved to weekly exports. Additionally, weekly scheduled exports will return data only from the last week, and monthly scheduled exports will return data only from the last month. |
Status | Retired |
Slack will no longer be translated into Russian
Announcement date | June 12, 2023 |
Retirement date | June 28, 2023 |
Note | Users can continue to send and receive messages in Cyrillic and use Slack in a browser to translate the app to Russian. Manage your language preference. |
Status | Retired |
auth.findUser API
Announcement date | January 10, 2023 |
Retirement date | March 30, 2023 |
Note | This unpublished method will be retired in favour of the following methods: Admin.users.invite (Grid Only), Admin.users.list (Grid Only), users.info, users.list, and users.lookupByEmail |
Status | Retired |
Slack calls
Announcement date | September 20, 2022 |
Retirement date | March 30, 2023 |
Note | Huddles now offer all of the functionality available in a Slack call (and more). |
Status | Retired |
Zendesk legacy app
Announcement date | October 17, 2022 |
Retirement date | March 1, 2023 |
Note | Install the latest Zendesk app for the most up to date functionality. |
Status | Retired |
OneDrive legacy app
Announcement date | March 1, 2022 |
Retirement date | September 1, 2022 |
Note | Upgrade to the newest OneDrive and SharePoint app for the most up to date functionality. |
Status | Retired |