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Deprecated functionality overview
Learn about outdated features and how they may affect your work in this comprehensive overview of deprecated functionality.
19. May 2026
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Introduction
This page provides an overview of Fotoware Veloz, On-premises, and Fotostation functionality that is deprecated, scheduled for End of Life (EOL), or already removed from the product. The list is maintained to give you visibility into upcoming and completed changes so you can plan accordingly. We recommend reviewing this page regularly to ensure your workflows remain current and supported.
Deprecation and EOL information is also included in release updates and individual feature articles (when applicable).
- Deprecated: The feature is still available but is no longer being developed. It will be removed in a future release.
- End-of-life (EOL): The feature is no longer supported. It has either been removed or is scheduled to be removed on a specified date.
Deprecated functionality
Features that are still supported but will be removed in the future.
| Feature | Scheduled EOL date |
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| Fotostation Display Templates (Fotoware On-premises) | TBA (To be announced) |
| Legacy IPTC support using the Image Interchange Model (IIM) | TBA |
| CSS Overrides in FotoWeb (Fotoware On-premises and Veloz) | TBA |
End of Life announced (future EOL date)
These features are deprecated with a future EOL date.
| Feature | Deprecation date | Scheduled EOL date |
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| Auto-tagging version 3 | March 2026 | June 2026 |
| SQL logging | September, 2025 | October 31, 2026 |
| Archive agent | October 1, 2019 | October 31, 2026 |
End of Life (past EOL date)
A list of features that have already been set to EOL.
| Feature | EOL date |
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| FotoWeb Legacy Widget and API key authentication | January 1, 2025 |
| FotoWeb Legacy Upload API (Fotoware On-premises and Veloz) | January 1, 2025 |
| FotoWeb Desktop Open/Edit (Fotoware On-premises and Veloz) | January 1, 2025 |
| InDesign Server for Index Manager | January 1, 2025 |
| Fotostation Pro single user license | July 12, 2024 |
| FotoWeb Login Tokens (Fotoware On-premises) | July 1, 2024 |
| FotoWeb Legacy Preview Agent API (Fotoware On-premises) | July 1, 2024 |
| FotoWare Mobile Apps | July 1, 2024 |
| External Tracking (Google Analytics, PIWIK) | April 1, 2024 |
| FotoWare Custom Report Generator | April 1, 2024 |
| Windows Active Directory integration via LDAP | January 1, 2024 |
| FotoStation Operating System Support | December 20, 2023 |
| Azure Face Recognition using Color Factory | November 2022 |
| Facebook comments | August 1, 2022 |
| Internet Explorer 11 | July 26, 2022 |
| Microsoft Silverlight | October 12, 2021 |
| Social Media sharing buttons | March, 2024 |
| Virus scanning in FotoWeb | July 1, 2021 |
| macOS 10.12 (Sierra) | July 1, 2021 |
| FotoWeb - Screens Feature | July 1, 2021 |
| Windows 7 32bit | July 1, 2021 |
| Offline file support | July 1, 2021 |
| Archive Agent in FotoStation | July 1, 2021 |
| FotoWeb plugin for Microsoft Office 2010 | January 1, 2021 |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | October 1, 2020 |
| SmartColor and SmartClean for FotoStation | June 25, 2020 |
| FotoWeb Archive Agent API | October 1, 2019 |
| Support for macOS X 10.10 (Yosemite) for FotoStation | October 1, 2019 |
| FotoWare version 7 support | October 1, 2019 |
| FotoWare Plugins for Adobe Creative Suite and early versions of Creative Cloud | October 1, 2019 |
| Apache Web Server for FotoWeb | October 22, 2018 |
Change log
A chronological record of all deprecation/EOL changes as well as more detailed information about the feature.
| Feature | Information | Dates |
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| Fotostation Pro single user license | The future of Fotostation: Transitioning to team plans |
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| FotoWeb Legacy Upload API (Fotoware On-premises and Veloz) | The FotoWeb Legacy Upload API has been deprecated. We recommend switching to the new Upload API as soon as possible. The new API supports uploading of larger files, and is more secure and robust. |
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| FotoStation Display Templates (Fotoware On-premises) | FotoStation Display Templates are currently stored in the RTF document format. This will be changed to HTML Format in a future version of FotoStation. transition from RTF to HTML format can usually be done using Microsoft Word or other document editors. |
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| FotoWeb Desktop Open/Edit (Fotoware On-premises and Veloz) | FotoWeb Desktop Open and Edit has been deprecated and will be set to End of Life on January 1st, 2025. For recommendations for alternatives, see this Learn article. |
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| FotoWeb Login Tokens (Fotoware On-premises) | The login token authentication is set to End of Life. |
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| FotoWeb Legacy Preview Agent API (Fotoware On-premises) | The Preview Agent API will be set to End of Life on July 1st, 2024 and will no longer be offered in our on-premises software released after that date. If you have integrations that display previews in real-time, we recommend looking into alternative solutions such as obtaining temporary preview links from the RESTful API. |
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| FotoStation Operating System Support |
macOS Big Sur (11) and earlier are no longer supported by Apple and will not be supported by FotoStation. Windows 10 Version 21H1 and earlier are no longer supported by Microsoft and will not be supported by FotoStation. |
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| Legacy IPTC support using the Image Interchange Model (IIM) | XMP has been the established industry standard for reading and writing embedded metadata for over two decades. We will continue our efforts to remain the industry leader in XMP capabilities adoption. As most applications and devices now exclusively use XMP as the format for reading and writing embedded metadata, we see that the additional support for reading IPTC block metadata is causing unnecessary compatibility issues. Moving forward, FotoWare will not be parsing IPTC metadata from assets if XMP metadata is present in the asset. Support for parsing EXIF information will not be affected by this change. FotoWare is still a member of the IPTC Committee and remains involved in the adoption of IPTC standards in our tools. |
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| External Tracking (Google Analytics, PIWIK) | Built-in support for external tracking tools has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. These tools include Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and PIWIK. The new Activity Export feature will contain all the data that can currently be sent to these tools, and more. We will also include the ability to track the activity of users with guest access. This data can be imported to any third-party Analytics or BI tool used in the organization |
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| Azure Face Recognition using Color Factory | Due to FotoWare’s new policy regarding Facial Recognition technology in our software, we will immediately remove any facial recognition options in Color Factory’s support for Azure Cognitive Services. This does not include Facial Recognition technology in connection with public individuals such as celebrities. Other Cognitive Services features will still be available. For more information about the policy, see our Statement on Facial Recognition Technology. |
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| CSS Overrides in FotoWeb (Fotoware On-premises and Veloz) | Branding using CSS overrides is deprecated. We will offer similar capabilities through native configurations in a future release. |
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| InDesign Server for Index Manager | Preview Generation using InDesign Server executables in Index Manager has been deprecated and will be removed in the future. We will offer a viable alternative for generating preview files for unsupported file types before removing this feature. |
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| FotoWare Custom Report Generator | The FotoWare Custom Report Generator tool allows you to perform data grouping and aggregation based on activity log data, and to schedule regular generation of formatted reports. Most of the functionality offered in the report generator will not be offered moving forward. FotoWare is building a new Activity Export tool that will allow you to export activity data. The solution will contain a comprehensive list of activity events and allow you to choose the metadata values to include in the logs, including changed metadata values on assets. This data can be exported, on schedule or on demand, as raw activity CSV files that can be imported into all common BI Tools such as Excel, Power BI, SAP Business Objects, Google Analytics, and more. Further aggregation of the data can then be performed using those tools. We recommend switching to the new solution as soon as it becomes available. |
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| Facebook comments | The Facebook Comments feature in FotoWeb is deprecated, and will be marked as EOL from August 1st 2022. FotoWare will be improving the capabilities of the built-in Commenting and Annotation features to support social collaboration in our products moving forward. |
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| Social Media sharing buttons | These are being removed due to complications with privacy regulations. |
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| Internet Explorer 11 | With FotoWare 8.1 we have removed all dependency on Internet Explorer by replacing in-browser Silverlight component with pure HTML components. Although Microsoft’s official support for Internet Explorer 11 ends on June 15, 2022, many SaaS solutions, including Microsoft’s own Office 365, have already stopped supporting the browser. |
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| FotoWeb Legacy Widget and API Key | If you have implemented custom integrations with FotoWeb, such as CMS integrations, we recommend updating the authentication methods in use to OAuth, which was introduced in FotoWeb FR12 (version 8.0.850). Legacy authentication methods, including FWAPIToken, have been deprecated and will be removed in the future. |
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| FotoWare Mobile Apps | The current FotoWare Mobile apps are deprecated and new mobile apps to replace them will be available from the Apple App Store and Good Play Store. |
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| Virus scanning in FotoWeb | Apply infrastructure level security to protect to protect your FotoWare Servers against external threats. |
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| Microsoft Silverlight | The most used configuration features, such as FotoWeb User Management and Site Configuration, are already available in the web interface. Native server applications for Index Manager, Color Factory, and Connect, as well as a simple web-based status interface to monitor service status are coming soon. |
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| macOS 10.12 (Sierra) | macOS 10.12 (Sierra) is no longer supported in FotoStation. |
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| FotoWeb - Screens Feature | The FotoWeb screens feature has been removed. |
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| SmartColor and SmartClean for FotoStation | These are no longer supported in the newly released 64-bit version of FotoStation. |
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| Windows 7 32bit | With the newly released 64-bit versions of FotoStation, 32-bit versions of Windows 7 are no longer supported. |
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| Offline file support | Offline files support in FotoStation, Color Factory, and Index Manager is deprecated. We recommend looking into alternative storage solutions such as cold storage, rather than building offline archives in FotoWare. |
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| Archive Agent in FotoStation | Archive agent sources in FotoStation archives have been deprecated. We recommend connecting FotoStation directly to Index Manager indexes in FotoWeb, or to pools in FotoWare SaaS. |
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| FotoWeb Legacy Widget and API Authentication | Legacy authentication methods, such as FWAPIToken, are deprecated. Update authentication methods to use OAuth, introduced in FR12 (8.0.850). |
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| Windows Active Directory integration via LDAP | For security reasons, we recommend using ADFS or any other SAML 2.0 compatible Identity Provider. Alternatively, a pure Azure AD integration. FotoWare 8.1 will contain tools to assist with the migration of existing users and groups to a different Identity Provider. We recommend using SAML with ADFS for user authentication instead. For more information, see FotoWeb Authentication with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). |
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| FotoWeb plugin for Microsoft Office 2010 | Supported versions of MS Office are Office 2013 and 2016 for Wndows. |
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| FotoWeb Archive Agent API | Build future integrations using the FotoWeb REST API. Existing integrations will be supported for one year after the deprecation of Archive Agent API. |
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| Support for macOS X 10.10 (Yosemite) for FotoStation | macOS X 10.11 (El Capitan) is required. |
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| FotoWare version 7 support | FotoWare version 7 will no longer be supported. Update to FotoWare 8.0 to receive updates and security enhancements. |
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| FotoWare Plugins for Adobe Creative Suite and early versions of Creative Cloud | FotoWare plugins for Adobe Creative Suite and early verions of Creative Cloud are EOL. The FotoWeb plugin for InDesign CC 2015 and newer remains supported. |
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| Windows Server 2008 R2 | For server applications, we recommend moving to the latest Windows Server operating system. |
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| Apache Web Server for FotoWeb | FotoWeb FR13 (8.0.870) will provide tools to migrate to an Apache-based FotoWeb server to Internet Information Services (IIS) which is currently the only web server of choice. FotoWeb versions released after July 2021 will not support the built-in Apache Web Server. |
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