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Facebook Redesign May Not Go Live to All Users for “A Month”
August 25th, 2008

Many developers have been (understandably) speculating that the Facebook redesign will go live to all users this Wednesday, 27 August 2008, because of a statement in the Facebook Developer Wiki page on User Logins in the new design that reads,

We are deprecating infinite session keys after the new profile launches to all users August 27, 2008.

However, it appears that this is likely not going to actually be the launch date. In a post last Thursday in the Facebook Developers Forum, the Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support Team wrote,

We do not have a definite timeline set out for the permanent switch but it will most likely be past August 27th. We want to be certain to push out a stable and well received environment for both developers and the new profile on the whole, and we hope to have this finalized in approximately a month’s time. As soon as we have more specific dates and timelines, we will let you know.

Thanks,
the Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support Team

The operative words here are “likely past August 27th” and “hope to have this finalized in approximately a month’s time.”

What that means exactly remains to be seen. Until then, developers will need to maintain versions of their apps for users in both the new and old designs.

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