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

Recurring scheduled exports (Daily)

Announcement date May 24, 2023
Retirement date July 31, 2023
Reason for retirement 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. These changes have no impact on a customer’s ability to set weekly or monthly scheduled exports, and run manual exports to pull messages or files from any time in their org or workspace history.
Status Announced


Google Calendar for Team Events app

Announcement date September 2022
Retirement date To be determined
Reason for retirement Moving forward, we will continue to support the Google Calendar app.
Status On hold

 

Retired features

auth.findUser API

Announcement date January 10, 2023
Retirement date March 30, 2023
Reason for retirement This unpublished method will be retired in favour of the following methods: Admin.users.invite (Grid Only), Admin.users.list (Grid Only), users.info, users.list, and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
Reason for retirement 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
Reason for retirement 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
Reason for retirement Upgrade to the newest OneDrive and SharePoint app for the most up to date functionality.
Status Retired