diff --git a/metadata/layout.conf b/metadata/layout.conf
index 2d8a9fc9b4ebe..25edb02dc20b0 100644
--- a/metadata/layout.conf
+++ b/metadata/layout.conf
@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ manifest-required-hashes = BLAKE2B
 # 2014-03-11 council meeting banned EAPIs 1 and 2.
 # 2015-10-11 council meeting deprecated EAPI 4.
 # 2016-01-10 council meeting banned EAPIs 0 and 3.
+# 2018-04-08 council meeting banned EAPI 4.
 # 2018-05-13 council meeting deprecated EAPI 5 for ebuilds.
-eapis-banned = 0 1 2 3
-eapis-deprecated = 4 5
+eapis-banned = 0 1 2 3 4
+eapis-deprecated = 5
 
 # Bug #337853 - gentoo's council says to enable
 # --echangelog by default for the "gentoo" repo