When is the deprecation date for Legacy Workflow Engine?

[TamojitD]

Hi Team,

As we know the legacy workflow editor has entered the maintenance state from last couple of years. Can anyone confirm the deprecation of workflow editor in Australia version?

if Yes, in that case is it required to migrate the legacy workflows to workflow studio flows/subflows before the upgrade process?

If No, can we perform the Australia upgrade with legacy workflows in mid 2026? and is there a confirmed deprecation plan for legacy editor?

Please help.

Regards,

Tamojit

[GlideFather]

Hi @TamojitD,

as far as I know, there's no plan to deprecate the legacy workflows, it's however strongly recommended to use the flow (designer), but not enforced... 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@TamojitD 

Workflows are into the platform from very beginning and I don't think ServiceNow will deprecate them

ServiceNow recommends moving to Flow designer as it's low-code, no-code approach but they won't stop supporting Workflows

There are lots of custom workflows from many customers and not every customer will be keen to convert it to Flow as it requires lot of DEV + TEST efforts.

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@TamojitD 

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[Bimschleger · Accepted solution]

Hi @TamojitD , I lead the product team for Flow and Workflow. At this time, there are no plans to deprecate the Legacy Workflow engine.

As of the Zurich release, ServiceNow no longer ships legacy workflows out of the box for new instances. However, any existing legacy workflows that you have on an existing instance will continue to run perfectly fine.

As others have noted above, we recommend building all new automation in Flow Designer.