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
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.
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.
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Note Stars and Reminders have been replaced by Later.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.
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