Deprecated Features

This index helps you to identify deprecated features in Redpanda releases and plan necessary upgrades or modifications.

Deprecated in Feature Details

23.3.2

space_management_enable_override

This property was a workaround in older version of Redpanda. It is no longer required and the property is ignored.

23.3.1

delete_retention_ms

Use log_retention_ms instead.

23.2.12

partition_autobalancing_movement_batch_size_bytes

Use partition_autobalancing_concurrent_moves instead.

23.2.1

Cluster and Console custom resources

Use the Redpanda resource instead.

22.2.1

health_monitor_tick_interval

No longer required. Previously, health refreshes were triggered based on this interval, potentially leading to scenarios where stale health metadata was accessed after a leadership change. The revised mechanism triggers a health refresh only when the controller leader’s health metadata becomes stale. Now, whenever a health report is requested, Redpanda checks the age of the metadata. If stale, a refresh request is dispatched to contact the leader directly or to gather fresh information from the cluster. This change ensures that health metadata remains accurate, eliminating unnecessary periodic checks.

rpk commands

The following rpk commands have been modified or have had flag updates.

Renames

Deprecated in Feature Details

23.3.1

rpk cluster storage recovery

Use rpk cluster storage restore instead. You can still use rpk cluster storage recovery as an alias.

23.2.1

rpk cluster partitions movement

Use rpk cluster partitions move instead. This also applies to rpk cluster partitions movement status and rpk cluster partitions movement cancel.

23.2.1

rpk cluster partitions movement cancel

Use rpk cluster partitions move-cancel instead.

23.2.1

rpk cluster partitions movement status

Use rpk cluster partitions move-status instead.

23.3.9

rpk cloud auth create

This command has been fully deprecated. rpk cloud auth fully manages authentication fields now.

23.3.9

rpk cloud auth edit

This command has been fully deprecated. rpk cloud auth fully manages authentication fields now.

23.3.9

rpk cloud auth rename to

This command has been fully deprecated. rpk cloud auth fully manages authentication fields now.

Flag changes

Deprecated in Flags Used in Details

23.2.1

--admin-api-tls-cert

--admin-api-tls-enabled

--admin-api-tls-key

--admin-api-tls-truststore

--brokers

--config

--password

--sasl-mechanism

--tls-cert

--tls-enabled

--tls-key

--tls-truststore

--user

rpk security acl

rpk cluster

rpk topic

rpk debug

rpk group

rpk redpanda

Security flags have been moved into the global -X flag. While the old flags still work, its recommended that you use the new flag. See rpk -X for details.

23.2.1

--client-id

--client-secret

rpk cloud byoc install

Use the -X flag instead. See rpk cloud byoc install - Example for defails.

23.3.1

--topic-name-pattern

rpk cluster storage recovery start

23.2.1

--datasource

--job-name

--metrics-endpoint

rpk generate grafana dashboard

Use --dashboard instead. While the old flags still work, its recommended that you use the new flag.

Configuration flags deprecated by -X options

Prior to rpk supporting the -X flag, each common configuration option was itself a configurable flag. The following table lists the deprecated flags and their corresponding properties, environment variables, and configuration file settings.

Property Deprecated Flag Deprecated Configuration File Field Supported -X Flag

Redpanda Brokers

--brokers

rpk.kafka_api.brokers

brokers

Admin API

--api-urls

rpk.admin_api.addresses

admin.hosts

Redpanda TLS Key

--tls-key

rpk.kafka_api.tls.key_file

tls.key

Redpanda TLS Cert

--tls-cert

rpk.kafka_api.tls.cert_file

tls.cert

Redpanda TLS Truststore

--tls-truststore

rpk.kafka_api.tls.truststore_file

tls.ca

Redpanda SASL Mechanism

--sasl-mechanism

rpk.kafka_api.sasl.type

sasl.mechanism

Redpanda SASL Username

--user

rpk.kafka_api.sasl.user

user

Redpanda SASL Password

--password

rpk.kafka_api.sasl.password

pass

Redpanda Admin API TLS Key

--admin-api-tls-key

rpk.admin_api.tls.key_file

admin.tls.key

Redpanda Admin API TLS Cert

--admin-api-tls-cert

rpk.admin_api.tls.cert_file

admin.tls.cert

Redpanda Admin API TLS Truststore

--admin-api-tls-truststore

rpk.admin_api.tls.truststore_file

admin.tls.ca

Configuration properties

This is an exhaustive list of all the deprecated properties.

Broker properties

  • coproc_supervisor_server

  • dashboard_dir

  • enable_central_config

Cluster properties

  • cloud_storage_max_materialized_segments_per_shard

  • cloud_storage_max_partition_readers_per_shard

  • cloud_storage_reconciliation_ms

  • coproc_max_batch_size

  • coproc_max_inflight_bytes

  • coproc_max_ingest_bytes

  • coproc_offset_flush_interval_ms

  • enable_admin_api

  • enable_auto_rebalance_on_node_add

  • enable_coproc

  • full_raft_configuration_recovery_pattern

  • health_monitor_tick_interval

  • id_allocator_replication

  • max_version

  • min_version

  • partition_autobalancing_movement_batch_size_bytes

  • raft_flush_timer_interval_ms

  • rm_violation_recovery_policy

  • seed_server_meta_topic_partitions

  • seq_table_min_size

  • tm_violation_recovery_policy

  • transaction_coordinator_replication

  • tx_registry_log_capacity

  • tx_registry_sync_timeout_ms

  • use_scheduling_groups