Previously deprecated and shut down features
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| Feature | Deprecated | Shutdown date | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spending limits | July 24, 2020 | July 1, 2023 | Service shutdown complete. For information about other mechanisms to manage costs, see Manage App Engine costs. |
| DoS Protection Service | October 11, 2017 | Apr 29, 2022 | DoS rules have been auto-migrated to App Engine Firewall. |
The standalone legacy SDK and appcfg tooling |
July 30, 2019 | August 30, 2020 | Service shutdown complete; Migrate to Google Cloud CLI (Java | Go | Python | PHP) |
| Go 1.9 (GA) | June 27, 2019 | June 30, 2020 | On June 30, 2020, applications still running on unsupported versions of Go will be shut down. To continue running your apps, migrate them to newer runtimes. |
| Java Compat runtimes for App Engine flexible environment (Beta) | November 15, 2016 | April 20, 2020 | Service shutdown complete |
| Python Compat runtimes for App Engine flexible environment (Beta) | November 15, 2016 | April 20, 2020 | Service shutdown complete |
| Blobstore UI from the Google Cloud console (GA) | June 1, 2018 | June 1, 2019 | Service shutdown complete |
| Backend API (GA) | March 13, 2014 | March 13, 2019 | Service shutdown complete |
| Datastore Admin backups (GA) | February 28, 2018 | February 28, 2019 | Service shutdown complete |
| Admin API v1beta4/v1beta5 | N/A | February 1, 2019 | Service shutdown complete |
| Java 7 runtime (GA) | December 13, 2017 | January 16, 2019 | Service shutdown complete |
| Go 1.6 & Go 1.8 (GA) | July 31, 2018 | November 1, 2018 | Migrate to newer runtimes. |
| Legacy health checks for the App Engine flexible environment (GA) | September 18, 2017 | September 30, 2018 | Legacy health checks |
| Cloud Endpoints Frameworks v1 | August 2, 2017 | September 13, 2018 | Service shutdown complete |
| Python SSL 2.7 | November 15, 2017 | April 2, 2018 | Service shutdown complete |
| Task Queue REST API (v1) | August 28, 2017 | February 20, 2018 | Move to Cloud Tasks API |
Managed VMs (vm:true) environment (Beta) |
November 15, 2016 | December 15, 2017 | Upgrade to the latest App Engine flexible environment release |
| Channel API (GA) | October 27, 2016 | October 31, 2017 | Service shutdown complete |
| XMPP API (GA) | October 27, 2016 | October 31, 2017 | Service shutdown complete |
| Java 6 Support (GA) | July 14, 2015 | Free apps: March 20, 2017 Billed apps: July 26, 2017 |
Service shutdown complete |
| Python 2.5 (GA) | March 8, 2013 | June 20, 2017 | Service shutdown complete |
| Virtual IP (GA) | May 31, 2016 | June, 2017 | Service shutdown complete |
| Django packaged libraries 1.2, 1.3 (GA) | July 14, 2015 | July 18, 2016 | Service shutdown complete |
| ClientLogin (GA) | April 20, 2012 | April 12, 2016 | Service shutdown complete |
| OpenID 2.0 Support (Alpha) | July 14, 2015 | February 23, 2016 | Service shutdown complete |
| Datastore Admin Copy Entities (Beta) | July 14, 2015 | February 2, 2016 | Service shutdown complete |
| PageSpeed (Alpha) | May 6, 2015 | December 1, 2015 | Service shutdown complete |
| Prospective Search API (Alpha) | July 14, 2015 | December 1, 2015 | Service shutdown complete |
| OAuth 1.0 Support (Alpha) | July 14, 2015 | November 10, 2015 | Service shutdown complete |
| Datastore backups to Blobstore (Beta) | June 9, 2015 | October 1, 2015 | Service shutdown complete |
| Files API (Beta) | June 12, 2013 | September 9, 2015 | Service shutdown complete |