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header: Special Service Guide Update for November 8, 2019
lang: en
last_updated: null
url: https://docs.fastly.com/changes/significant/2019/11/08/special
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Fastly plans to [retire](https://docs.fastly.com/products/fastly-product-lifecycle#product-or-feature-retirement) the Round-robin director on May 8, 2020. It will not be supported beyond the retirement date for existing users. Fastly does not recommend new customers use the Round-robin director. Our existing [Random director](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/declarations/director/), with its associated [API](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/load-balancing/directors/director/), offers similar functionality to the deprecated director policy. Current customers should migrate their director use from Round-robin to Random.