# Source: https://docs.avaamo.com/user-guide/deprecated-and-removed-features/atlas-8-deprecated-and-removed-features.md

# Atlas 8 - Deprecated and removed features

This page contains a list of all the features that have been deprecated and removed in the `Atlas 8` release.&#x20;

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### Deprecated features <a href="#deprecated-features" id="deprecated-features"></a>

Continuously evaluating product capabilities, Avaamo consistently works towards enhancing overall customer value by upgrading older features with significantly improved alternatives.&#x20;

This section lists features and capabilities marked as deprecated with the `Atlas 8` release. Generally, features planned for removal in a future release are set to deprecated first, with an alternative provided.

Customers are advised to review if they use the feature/capability in their current use cases and make plans to change their implementation to use the alternative provided.

<table><thead><tr><th width="149">Area</th><th width="169">Feature</th><th>Alternative</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Skills </td><td><a href="../how-to/build-skills/create-skill/using-avaamo-answers-1">Answers</a></td><td><p><a href="../recent-releases/release-notes-v8.0/introducing-llamb">LLaMB</a> - a full stack, low code toolset to build, deploy, and maintain LLM (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model">Large Language Model</a>)  applications at enterprise scale. </p><p></p><p>Contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager for more information on licensing.</p></td></tr><tr><td>Learning </td><td><a href="../how-to/build-agents/learning-continuous-improvement/query-analyzer-deprecated">Query Analyzer</a></td><td>Collaborate with your dedicated platform delivery team in managing this functionality.</td></tr><tr><td>Learning </td><td><a href="../how-to/build-agents/learning-continuous-improvement/agent-diagnostics-deprecated">Agent Diagnostics</a></td><td>Collaborate with your dedicated platform delivery team in managing this functionality.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Removed features

This section lists features and capabilities that have been removed in the `Atlas 8` release. Prior releases had these capabilities marked as deprecated.

<table><thead><tr><th width="272">Area</th><th>Feature</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Agent Chat transcript export</td><td>Conversation ID column</td></tr><tr><td>Analytics APIs</td><td><p>from_date, to_date, UTC_offset query parameters from the following APIs: </p><ul><li><a href="../ref/avaamo-platform-api-documentation/analytics-api/successful-messages">Successful messages</a></li><li><a href="../ref/avaamo-platform-api-documentation/analytics-api/user-sessions">User sessions</a></li><li><a href="../ref/avaamo-platform-api-documentation/analytics-api/messages">Messages</a></li><li><a href="../ref/avaamo-platform-api-documentation/analytics-api/unhandled-messages">Unhandled messages</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>