Threshold has never been formally removed from the Star Trek canon, although it seems quite likely that those involved in the production (behind the camera) would prefer if it simply went away;
As mentioned in @hynosifl's answer, the quote from "Day of Honor" that people often point at (e.g. to suggest that the episode has been retconned out of existence) actually refers to a different technology;
PARIS: I've never navigated a transwarp conduit. Any problems
I should be aware of?
That said, even the writers accept that there were many technical failings with the episode, especially in regard to how Transwarp works in the episode and the "de-evolution" of Janeway and Paris.
TNG's Producer Brannon Braga describes it thusly;
"It's a terrible episode. People are very unforgiving about that
episode. I've written well over a hundred episodes of Star Trek, yet
it seems to be the only episode anyone brings up, you know? 'Brannon
Braga, who wrote 'Threshold'!' Out of a hundred and some episodes,
you're gonna have some stinkers! Unfortunately, that was a royal,
steaming stinker."
and TNG's 'Senior Technical Consultant' Rick Sternbach basically tried to handwave the whole episode away;
""I think what may have happened with the silly Warp 10 episode
was that there was a coupling of the energy from the shuttle to all of
the energy and matter of the universe (which might be possible if
we're looking at a finite system), and the shuttle was able to access
any point anywhere by some amazing tunnelling phenomenon which shrank
the normal 3D distances to points, much like all the universe being
squished into a pinpoint at the big bang because it was all energy
with no need for elbow room. Whew."
Note that that neither of them explicitly state that it was a dream/not a real episode/non-canon.
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