Google App Engine users may have some migration work ahead of them, because Google is contemplating not upgrading some popular programming languages currently running on the service, notably Java and Python.

Instead, the company may support the language upgrades only in the second iteration of Google App Engine, which the company has been calling, internally, Google App Engine 2.

“We’ve been in decision mode on how much language support do we bring to existing App Engine models,” said Brian Stevens, Google vice president of cloud platforms, during an interview with IDG News Service.

In other words, Google might upgrade App Engine to support the latest versions of Java and Python, Java 8, and Python 3. But it also might not.

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