Deprecations

Introduction

This doc provides a list of features in Tekton Pipelines that are deprecated or recently removed.

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

Deprecated Features	Deprecation Announcement	API Compatibility Policy	Earliest Date or Release of Removal
Several fields of Task.Step are deprecated	v0.36.0	Beta	Feb 25, 2023
ClusterTask is deprecated	v0.41.0	Beta	July 13, 2023
`pipelineRef.bundle` and `taskRef.bundle` are deprecated	v0.41.0	Alpha	July 13, 2023
The `config-trusted-resources` configMap is deprecated	v0.45.0	Alpha	v0.46.0

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

Removed Feature	Removal Pull Request	Removal Date	Latest LTS Release with Support	EOL of Supported Release
The `PipelineRun.Status.TaskRuns` and `PipelineRun.Status.Runs` fields and the `embedded-status` feature flag along with their functionalities have been tombstoned since v0.45.	[TEP100] Remove Taskruns and Runs Fields for PipelineRunStatus	Jan 25, 2023	v0.44.0	Jan 24, 2024
PipelineResources are removed, along with the components of the API that rely on them as proposed in TEP-0074. See Removed `PipelineResources` related features for more info.	[TEP074] Remove Generic PipelineResources with Rest of Resources Types	Mar 8, 2023	v0.44.0	Jan 24, 2024
v1alpha1 Runs are removed, as proposed in TEP-0114, along with the feature flags `enable-custom-task` and `custom-task-version`.	TEP-0114: Remove support for v1alpha1.Run	April 7, 2023	v0.44.0	Jan 24, 2024

The following features are removed as part of the deprecation of PipelineResources. See TEP-0074 for more information.

the fieldstask.spec.resources, taskRun.spec.resources, pipeline.spec.resources, pipelineRun.spec.resources, and taskRun.status.cloudEvents
images built upon PipelineResources
- 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
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 is deprecated and tombstoned #6301