diff --git a/rq/job.py b/rq/job.py
index 61dd2473..68714196 100644
--- a/rq/job.py
+++ b/rq/job.py
@@ -399,44 +399,4 @@ class Job(object):
         return hash(self.id)
 
 
-    # Backwards compatibility for custom properties
-    def __getattr__(self, name):  # noqa
-        import warnings
-        warnings.warn(
-                "Getting custom properties from the job instance directly "
-                "will be unsupported as of RQ 0.4. Please use the meta dict "
-                "to store all custom variables.  So instead of this:\n\n"
-                "\tjob.foo\n\n"
-                "Use this:\n\n"
-                "\tjob.meta['foo']\n",
-                SyntaxWarning)
-        try:
-            return self.__dict__['meta'][name]  # avoid recursion
-        except KeyError:
-            return getattr(super(Job, self), name)
-
-    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
-        # Ignore the "private" fields
-        private_attrs = set(['origin', '_func_name', 'ended_at',
-            'description', '_args', 'created_at', 'enqueued_at', 'connection',
-            '_result', 'result', 'timeout', '_kwargs', 'exc_info', '_id',
-            'data', '_instance', 'result_ttl', '_status', 'status', 'meta'])
-
-        if name in private_attrs:
-            object.__setattr__(self, name, value)
-            return
-
-        import warnings
-        warnings.warn(
-                "Setting custom properties on the job instance directly will "
-                "be unsupported as of RQ 0.4. Please use the meta dict to "
-                "store all custom variables.  So instead of this:\n\n"
-                "\tjob.foo = 'bar'\n\n"
-                "Use this:\n\n"
-                "\tjob.meta['foo'] = 'bar'\n",
-                SyntaxWarning)
-
-        self.__dict__['meta'][name] = value
-
-
 _job_stack = LocalStack()