# Replace Google OpenID 2.0 with OpenID Connect
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 16, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277 "2015-02-16T05:35:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@nahtnam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nahtnam)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/1 "2015-02-16T05:35:13Z")
It looks like OpenID 2.0 will be replaced by OpenID Connect on April 20 for Google authentication.
More info here: [Google Account Help](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6135882)
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/2 "2015-02-16T05:59:54Z")
So Discourse offers to authenticate by Google OAuth2.
Though OpenID Connect could be a plugin? It seems to build on top of OAuth2.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/3 "2015-02-16T08:52:18Z")
You classified this as “bug”? Seriously? Everyone who logs in is notified about this by Google, and there’s been a warning on our Discourse dashboard about it for _months_.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 9:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/4 "2015-02-16T09:19:43Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> there’s been a warning on our Discourse dashboard about it for months.
I don’t know how many months it’s been, but it has been in Admin-\>Settings-\>Login for as long as I can remember.
@nahtnam @fantasticfears
Take some time looking around as Admin, even if you aren’t Admin on your forum it should prove to be worth the time getting more familiar with things
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/5 "2015-02-16T09:32:21Z")
Yep, I translated these sentences to Chinese. I know that 😄
Just trying to figure out what does the OpenID Connect means.
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### Author:  [@thangngoc89](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thangngoc89)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/6 "2015-02-16T09:57:53Z")
> [@fantasticfears](#):
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> OpenID Connect means.
It means Oauth2
> **[OpenID Connect | Sign in with Google | Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/identity/openid-connect/openid-connect)**
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/7 "2015-04-22T06:22:06Z")
Yeah we amped up the warning level here a lot in 1.2 point release and 1.3, and we reached out to all our older customers using the old Google auth.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-google-openid-2-0-with-openid-connect/25277/8 "2015-05-12T22:03:11Z")