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- Ongoing development means that features may eventually be replaced by alternative functions - i.e. they become deprecated.
- See Release Policy - Platform availability and support
- This article describes our policy for handling this situation and minimizing the implications this can have for users.
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Life Cycle
Deprecated features will pass through three states:
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- Deprecation announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- Deprecated features will continue to be supported after the deprecation announcement, for the lifetime of the current release.
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- End of support announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- With the following release a deprecated feature becomes an unsupported feature, i.e. should problems occur then they will not be fixed.
- The functionality is still usable.
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- Feature removal announcements will be included with each release if applicable.
- Unsupported features may be completely removed from future releases.
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