---
title: "PlanetScale pscale workflow commands and /workflows API endpoints to be deprecated: 2026-09-29 | Harbyn"
description: "PlanetScale pscale workflow commands and /workflows API endpoints to be deprecated, announced Sep 29, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/planetscale/2026-09-29-new-move-tables-commands-replace-pscale-workflow"
last-updated: 2026-10-02
---

# PlanetScale pscale workflow commands and /workflows API endpoints to be deprecated

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/planetscale/2026-09-29-new-move-tables-commands-replace-pscale-workflow>.

Deprecation - PlanetScale. low severity. In effect.

PlanetScale says the pscale workflow commands will be deprecated along with the /workflows API endpoints. They are replaced by pscale branch vtctl move-tables (list, create, status, start, stop, switch-traffic, reverse-traffic, complete, cancel), which runs Vitess MoveTables directly. No deprecation or removal date is given.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [PlanetScale](https://harbyn.com/vendors/planetscale.md) |
| Kind | Deprecation |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 2, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Vendor page | <https://planetscale.com/changelog/move-tables-replaces-pscale-workflow> |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses PlanetScale, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://planetscale.com/changelog/feed.atom> (changelog, fetched 2026-10-02 01:24 UTC, sha256 `c0597ddc32c52e1cd79aca57647db3beb866e1919c1a97f391428c71eccc83cf`)

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