HARD DEADLINE · OCT 6, 2026 · EARLIEST OF THE FALL

Meta Marketing API v24.0 expires on October 6, 2026

Meta versions its Marketing API and retires each version on a published date. On October 6, 2026, v24.0 stops being served — calls that pin it start failing. If your agency automates Facebook or Instagram ads for clients, this is the first hard deadline of the fall.

Who gets hit

  1. 01

    Custom HTTP calls in n8n / Make / Zapier

    Flows with graph.facebook.com/v24.0/... hard-typed in the URL — the most common pattern for ads reporting, because native modules often lag behind the Marketing API's surface.

  2. 02

    Reporting scripts written once and never revisited

    Campaign spend and results pulled into sheets or dashboards for clients — pinned at build time, forgotten since.

  3. 03

    Native ads modules on old releases

    Platform modules usually migrate versions in their own releases — but scenario-level overrides and older self-hosted nodes keep the pin.

Client-visible symptom: the weekly ads report simply stops arriving, or campaign automation quietly stops adjusting — usually noticed by the client, days later.

How to audit this week

  1. 01

    Search workflow exports and scripts for the string v24.0. (Don't confuse with Graph API v23.0 — that one dies Oct 8, 2027, a year later.)

  2. 02

    Move pinned calls to the current version and run each affected flow once end-to-end — Meta version bumps regularly rename or remove fields, so check the response payloads, not just the status code.

  3. 03

    Where a native module exists for what your HTTP call does, consider switching to it — native modules absorb future version bumps for you.


Source: Meta official Graph API / Marketing API changelog — developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog. Dates verified Aug 30, 2026.

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