There’s a time for everything in life: a time for playing, learning &
growing up; a time for maturing, working & performing, and a time for retiring,
relaxing & handing the reigns over to the next generation. This is true for products
too, and this is why, six months ago, we announced our Labs program for Google
Code. This program provides clear distinction between graduate developer products where you’ll
find mature products with transparent deprecation policies which you can count on for the long
run, and labs developer products where you can explore our newest products and get started
with them early.
As we also said in that announcement, the time has
come for the SOAP Search API to retire – the new
generation is around, has graduated, and has largely taken over already as a better
and more versatile solution for the vast majority of use cases. In the spirit of our
deprecation policies, we’ve continued to support the SOAP Search API since its deprecation in
2006, but we wanted to remind you that it is finally sunsetting. That had been planned for
today, but we thought we'd give the few of you still using it another week to be prepared, so
we'll be shutting it down on September 7th instead.
