- title: "Exporting and importing groups in JSON format not supported"
  announcement_milestone: "15.10"
  announcement_date: "2023-04-22"
  removal_milestone: "15.8"
  removal_date: "2023-04-22"
  breaking_change: false
  reporter: wortschi
  stage: manage
  issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/389888
  body: |
    GitLab previously created group file exports in JSON format. In GitLab 13.10, NDJSON was added as the preferred format.

    To support transitions, importing JSON-formatted group file exports was still possible if you configured the
    relevant feature flags.

    From GitLab 15.8, importing a JSON-formatted group file exports is not supported.