# Namespaces and Pinecone v4

**URL:** <https://community.pinecone.io/t/namespaces-and-pinecone-v4/2638>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** vector-database\
**Created:** [July 11, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/namespaces-and-pinecone-v4/2638 "2023-07-11T21:00:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![david-engelmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/david-engelmann/32/1022_2.png) [@david-engelmann](https://community.pinecone.io/u/david-engelmann)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/namespaces-and-pinecone-v4/2638/1 "2023-07-11T21:00:50Z")

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langchain depreciated namespace as a parameter. they claim it was in preparation for pinecone v4. I can’t find anything about namespaces being depreciated and no information on pinecone v4 either. Was this removal in langchain unwarranted or was a breaking change and an api update not communicated?

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**Author:** ![mm1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@mm1](https://community.pinecone.io/u/mm1)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 7:42am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/namespaces-and-pinecone-v4/2638/3 "2023-07-13T07:42:36Z")

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Apparently the namespace feature will be scraped from the new free starter plan. But i don’t know if it will be gone entirely. i hope not because i rely on this feature. i am using flowise, which uses langchain, and atm it still has namespaces as a parameter. i’m also wondering of the namespace feature will be scraped from existing free plan users.

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**Author:** ![gdj0nes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/gdj0nes/32/223_2.png) [@gdj0nes](https://community.pinecone.io/u/gdj0nes)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/namespaces-and-pinecone-v4/2638/4 "2023-07-13T11:41:24Z")

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We’ve reverted the change to langchain. Existing indexes are not impacted and namespaces will continue to remain part of our paid product.

> [@Will my us-west4-gcp-free be migrated to the new gcp-starter?](https://community.pinecone.io/t/will-my-us-west4-gcp-free-be-migrated-to-the-new-gcp-starter/2650/2):
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> Thanks for reaching out! Existing indexes free tier indexes are not impacted and will not be migrated. We have no plan to deprecate namespaces for paid indexes. Users in gcp-starter users who have a multi-tenancy use case should utilize metadata filtering to partition their data.