diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 0f250a0c365..1aab904f117 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ v 7.10.0 (unreleased)
   - Fix admin user projects lists.
   - Don't leak private group existence by redirecting from namespace controller to group controller.
   - Ability to skip some items from backup (database, respositories or uploads)
-  - Fix "Hello @username." references not working by no longer allowing usernames to end in period.
   - Archive repositories in background worker.
   - Import GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab.com projects owned by authenticated user into current namespace.
   - Project labels are now available over the API under the "tag_list" field (Cristian Medina) 
diff --git a/db/migrate/20150324133047_remove_periods_at_ends_of_usernames.rb b/db/migrate/20150324133047_remove_periods_at_ends_of_usernames.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index dc38b0eceb7..00000000000
--- a/db/migrate/20150324133047_remove_periods_at_ends_of_usernames.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-class RemovePeriodsAtEndsOfUsernames < ActiveRecord::Migration
-  include Gitlab::ShellAdapter
-
-  class Namespace < ActiveRecord::Base
-    class << self
-      def find_by_path_or_name(path)
-        find_by("lower(path) = :path OR lower(name) = :path", path: path.downcase)
-      end
-
-      def clean_path(path)
-        path = path.dup
-        path.gsub!(/@.*\z/,             "")
-        path.gsub!(/\.git\z/,           "")
-        path.gsub!(/\A-+/,              "")
-        path.gsub!(/\.+\z/,             "")
-        path.gsub!(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]/, "")
-
-        counter = 0
-        base = path
-        while Namespace.find_by_path_or_name(path)
-          counter += 1
-          path = "#{base}#{counter}"
-        end
-
-        path
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  def up
-    changed_paths = {}
-
-    select_all("SELECT id, username FROM users WHERE username LIKE '%.'").each do |user|
-      username_was = user["username"]
-      username = Namespace.clean_path(username_was)
-      changed_paths[username_was] = username
-
-      username = quote_string(username)
-      execute "UPDATE users SET username = '#{username}' WHERE id = #{user["id"]}"
-      execute "UPDATE namespaces SET path = '#{username}', name = '#{username}' WHERE type IS NULL AND owner_id = #{user["id"]}"
-    end
-
-    select_all("SELECT id, path FROM namespaces WHERE type = 'Group' AND path LIKE '%.'").each do |group|
-      path_was = group["path"]
-      path = Namespace.clean_path(path_was)
-      changed_paths[path_was] = path
-
-      path = quote_string(path)
-      execute "UPDATE namespaces SET path = '#{path}' WHERE id = #{group["id"]}"
-    end
-
-    changed_paths.each do |path_was, path|
-      if gitlab_shell.mv_namespace(path_was, path)
-        # If repositories moved successfully we need to remove old satellites
-        # and send update instructions to users.
-        # However we cannot allow rollback since we moved namespace dir
-        # So we basically we mute exceptions in next actions
-        begin
-          gitlab_shell.rm_satellites(path_was)
-          # We cannot send update instructions since models and mailers
-          # can't safely be used from migrations as they may be written for 
-          # later versions of the database.
-          # send_update_instructions
-        rescue
-          # Returning false does not rollback after_* transaction but gives
-          # us information about failing some of tasks
-          false
-        end
-      else
-        # if we cannot move namespace directory we should rollback
-        # db changes in order to prevent out of sync between db and fs
-        raise Exception.new('namespace directory cannot be moved')
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/regex.rb b/lib/gitlab/regex.rb
index 0571574aa4f..9aeed5e6939 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/regex.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/regex.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module Gitlab
   module Regex
     extend self
 
-    NAMESPACE_REGEX_STR = '(?:[a-zA-Z0-9_\.][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]*[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]|[a-zA-Z0-9_])'.freeze
+    NAMESPACE_REGEX_STR = '(?:[a-zA-Z0-9_\.][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]*)'.freeze
 
     def namespace_regex
       @namespace_regex ||= /\A#{NAMESPACE_REGEX_STR}\z/.freeze
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ module Gitlab
 
     def namespace_regex_message
       "can contain only letters, digits, '_', '-' and '.'. " \
-      "Cannot start with '-' or end in '.'." \
+      "Cannot start with '-'." \
     end