{"id":1151,"date":"2016-06-24T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T07:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2016-06-27T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:29:57","slug":"final-notice-sunsetting-ionic-platform-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/final-notice-sunsetting-ionic-platform-alpha","title":{"rendered":"Final notice: Sunsetting Ionic Platform Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we <a href=\"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/announcing-the-ionic-platform-beta\/\">announced the Ionic Platform beta<\/a> in March of this year, we informed the Ionic Platform userbase that we would be shutting down a number of our alpha services in order to transition to the much more robust beta platform that would soon become our production release mid-2016. We also released a <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.ionic.io\/docs\/migration-guide\">beta migration guide<\/a> that walked through the process of moving to our new APIs.<\/p>\n<p>This is a final reminder that today, June 24th, 2016, we will be shutting down a number of alpha Ionic Platform services and any apps that have not yet <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.ionic.io\/docs\/migration-guide\">transitioned<\/a> will no longer function properly. For some services, the transition process is as simple as hitting a new endpoint with a new API token, for others there is a little more work involved but many of the features are the same if not greatly improved with the new services. Note: Analytics is not part of this shut down and we will have more information about that product shortly.<\/p>\n<p>We made the tough decision to deprecate a number of old APIs to enable a much more scalable and powerful offering, and we&#8217;re excited to show you what&#8217;s coming next. 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