Deprecations

Deprecated and removed features in Tekton Pipelines

This page provides a list of features in Tekton Pipelines that are deprecated or have been removed.

Deprecated Features

The following features are deprecated but have not yet been removed:

Feature	Deprecation Announcement	API Compatibility Policy	Earliest Removal Date/Release
Several fields of Task.Step	v0.36.0	Beta	Feb 25, 2023
ClusterTask	v0.41.0	Beta	July 13, 2023
The config-trusted-resources configMap	v0.45.0	Alpha	v0.46.0
The default-cloud-events-sink setting in the config-defaults configMap in favor of the new config-events configMap	v0.50.0	N/A	v0.59.0
v1beta1 Tasks, TaskRuns, Pipelines, and PipelineRuns in favor of v1	v0.50.0	Beta	v0.62.0
The resolver framework in favor of an upgraded framework	v0.60.0	N/A	v0.72.0

v1beta1 Deprecation

The v1beta1 versions of Task, TaskRun, Pipeline, and PipelineRun are deprecated as of release v0.50.0.

The v1beta1 versions of Task, TaskRun, Pipeline, and PipelineRun are deprecated in favor of the v1 versions of these APIs, as of release v0.50.0.

Following the beta CRD compatibility policy, the earliest release the v1beta1 versions of these CRDs may be removed is 1 year later, or v0.62.0 (LTS).

The v1beta1 client libraries will be retained until v0.62.0 has reached its end of life, 1 year later. Therefore, the earliest release the client libraries may be removed is v0.74.0, 12 months after v0.62.0.

Removed Features

The features listed below have been removed but may still be supported in releases that have not reached their EOL.

Feature	Removal PR	Removal Date	Latest LTS with Support	EOL of Supported Release
The PipelineRun.Status.TaskRuns and PipelineRun.Status.Runs fields and the embedded-status feature flag	TEP100: Remove Taskruns and Runs Fields	Jan 25, 2023	v0.44.0	Jan 24, 2024
PipelineResources and related API components per TEP-0074	Remove Generic PipelineResources	Mar 8, 2023	v0.44.0	Jan 24, 2024
v1alpha1 Runs per TEP-0114, along with feature flags enable-custom-task and custom-task-version	Remove support for v1alpha1.Run	April 7, 2023	v0.44.0	Jan 24, 2024
The disable-affinity-assistant feature flag in favor of the coschedule feature flag per TEP-0135	Remove deprecated disable-affinity-assistant	Mar 1, 2025	v0.68.0	Jan 30, 2026

Removed PipelineResources Features

The following features were removed as part of the deprecation of PipelineResources.

See TEP-0074 for more information.

Removed fields:

• task.spec.resources
• taskRun.spec.resources
• pipeline.spec.resources
• pipelineRun.spec.resources
• taskRun.status.cloudEvents

Removed images:

• The kubeconfigwriter image used with Cluster PipelineResource
• The imagedigestexporter image of Image PipelineResource
• The pullrequest-init image used with Pullrequest PipelineResource
• The gsutil image used with Storage PipelineResource

Other removed features:

• The tekton_pipelines_controller_cloudevent_count metric
• The artifacts bucket/PVC setup by the pkg/artifacts package related with Storage PipelineResources
• The generic PipelineResources functions including inputs and outputs resources and the from type
• TaskRun.Status.ResourcesResult