Previously deprecated and shut down features

View when previous App Engine features were shut down.

See the list of App Engine features that are scheduled for deprecation.

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