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title: "Deprecations"
description: "Every deprecated Updatecli command, manifest key, transformer, and plugin parameter, with the release it was deprecated in and how to migrate."
lead: "What changed, since when, and what to write instead"
date: 2026-04-11T13:37:00+00:00
lastmod: 2026-08-05T10:00:00+02:00
date: 2026-09-18T15:27:00+00:00
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// Set toclevels to be at least your hugo [markup.tableOfContents.endLevel] config key
:toclevels: 4

[#_description]
== Description

Deprecated settings still work. Updatecli accepts the old form, logs a warning, and translates it to
the new one, so a manifest written years ago keeps running. The warning is the notice: nothing on
the new one, so a manifest should keeps running between releases. The warning is the notice: nothing on

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the grammar in the description.

The sentence says a manifest should keeps running. Change should keeps to should keep.

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the new one, so a manifest should keeps running between releases. The warning is the notice: nothing on
the new one, so a manifest should keep running between releases. The warning is the notice: nothing on
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In `@content/en/docs/help/deprecations.adoc` at line 23, In the manifest
deprecation description, correct the grammar by changing “should keeps” to
“should keep,” leaving the rest of the sentence unchanged.

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this page breaks a pipeline today, and everything on it may break one eventually.

Entries are grouped by area, newest deprecation first within each group. The `Since` column is the
first release that emitted the warning, established from the Git history rather than from the
release notes (see the link:/changelogs/updatecli[changelogs] for what shipped in each release).
*How long a deprecation lasts.*
link:https://github.com/updatecli/updatecli/blob/main/COMPATIBILITY.md[COMPATIBILITY.md] sets the
clock: the old form keeps working and warns on every run, it is listed on this page, and it stays
supported for at least twelve months from the release that announced it. After that it may be
dropped in an ordinary minor release, a major version is not required for it. The release in the
`Since` column is therefore what tells you how exposed a manifest is, and the `Removable from`
column in <<_deprecations_by_release>> spells out the earliest date each entry may go. That date is
the earliest one permitted, not a scheduled removal.

*How each entry behaves.* Not all of them are simple renames, and the exceptions are easy to miss
while skimming. Every entry in <<_deprecations_by_release>> carries one or more of these markers:

* *translated* - Updatecli rewrites the old form to the new one on every run, so the pipeline
behaves as though the manifest had already been migrated.
* *warned* - accepted exactly as written, nothing is rewritten, so migrating is a manual edit.
* *ignored* - the setting has no effect at all beyond the warning. `commitmessage.title` ais the only
one, see <<_commit_messages>>.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the ignored marker with the catalog.

This definition says commitmessage.title is the only ignored entry. Lines 157-158 also mark deprecated transformer spellings as ignored when the lowercase form is present. Distinguish the unconditional and conditional cases, and change ais to is.

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In `@content/en/docs/help/deprecations.adoc` around lines 41 - 42, The
ignored-marker documentation must distinguish the unconditional
commitmessage.title case from deprecated transformer spellings that are ignored
only when their lowercase form is present. Update the definition near the
“_commit_messages” reference to clarify both cases and correct the typo “ais” to
“is”, while keeping the catalog behavior accurate.

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* *error* - already refused outright under some setting or combination. `query` becomes a hard error
as soon as the engine moves to `dasel/v2` or later, see <<_dasel_engines>>.

[TIP]
====
Three commands answer "does any of this apply to me?":

* `updatecli pipeline diff` parses and validates the whole manifest without applying anything, so
every deprecation warning surfaces.
* `updatecli manifest validate --experimental --strict` reports the deprecated keywords on their own
and fails instead of only warning, which makes it the one to run in CI. It is available from
v0.120.0 and is experimental, so it exits unless `--experimental` is set, see
link:/docs/help/experimental/[Experimental features].
* link:/docs/commands/updatecli_manifest_upgrade/[`updatecli manifest upgrade`] prints the
translated manifest, and writes it back to the file with `-i`. That migrates every *translated*
entry in one pass. It cannot help with the *warned*, *ignored*, and *error* entries, which need a
real edit.
====

TIP: To find out whether your own manifests are affected, run `updatecli pipeline diff` and read the
warnings. Nothing needs to be applied, a `diff` parses and validates the whole manifest, which is
where the deprecation warnings come from.
[#_deprecations_by_release]
== Deprecations by release

Two cases on this page are *not* simple renames, and both are easy to miss:
The same entries as the rest of this page, one row per release, newest first. `Removable from` is
twelve months after the release date, the earliest point the old form may be dropped (see
<<_description>>).

[cols="1,1,1,4", options="header"]
|===
| Release | Released | Removable from | Deprecated in this release

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.120.0[v0.120.0]
| 2026-08-05
| 2027-08-05
| <<_dasel_engines,`dasel/v1` and `dasel/v2` on `json`, `toml`, `csv`>> (*warned*) +
<<_deprecated_parameters,`query` on `toml` and `csv`>> (*error* from `dasel/v2`)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.116.0[v0.116.0]
| 2026-04-10
| 2027-04-10
| <<_githubpullrequest_automerge,`automerge` on `github/pullrequest`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.114.0[v0.114.0]
| 2026-02-24
| 2027-02-24
| <<_commands,`updatecli apply`, `updatecli diff`, `updatecli prepare`>> (*translated*) +
<<_commit_messages,`commitmessage.title`>> (*ignored*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.105.0[v0.105.0]
| 2025-08-01
| 2026-08-01
| <<_dasel_engines,`dasel/v1` on `json`>> (*warned*) +
<<_deprecated_parameters,`query` on `json`>> (*error* from `dasel/v2`)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.97.0[v0.97.0]
| 2025-03-31
| 2026-03-31
| <<_deprecated_parameters,`key: name` and `key: hash` on `githubrelease`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.86.0[v0.86.0]
| 2024-11-04
| 2025-11-04
| <<_stage_identifiers,`conditionids` on targets>> (*translated*, *error* with `disableconditions`)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.80.0[v0.80.0]
| 2024-07-10
| 2025-07-10
| <<_compose_file_name,`update-compose.yaml`>> (*warned*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.64.1[v0.64.1]
| 2023-10-19
| 2024-10-19
| <<_top_level_keys,`title` at the top level>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.51.0[v0.51.0]
| 2023-05-26
| 2024-05-26
| <<_yaml_key_syntax,`yaml` keys without the `$.` prefix>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.44.0[v0.44.0]
| 2023-02-09
| 2024-02-09
| <<_deprecated_parameters,`indexurl` on `cargopackage`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.40.0[v0.40.0]
| 2022-12-12
| 2023-12-12
| <<_top_level_keys,`pullrequests`>> (*translated*, *error* with `actions`) +
<<_top_level_keys,`autodiscovery.pullrequestid`>> (*translated*, *error* with `actionid`) +
<<_action_kinds,`kind: github` and `kind: gitea`>> (*translated*) +
<<_stage_identifiers,`scmID` on actions>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.37.0[v0.37.0]
| 2022-11-07
| 2023-11-07
| <<_deprecated_parameters,`multiple` on `json`, `toml`, `csv`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.34.0[v0.34.0]
| 2022-09-28
| 2023-09-28
| <<_stage_identifiers,`depends_on`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.33.0[v0.33.0]
| 2022-09-03
| 2023-09-03
| <<_deprecated_parameters,`url` on `maven`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.31.0[v0.31.0]
| 2022-08-27
| 2023-08-27
| <<_commands,`updatecli show`>> (*translated*)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.25.0[v0.25.0]
| 2022-05-09
| 2023-05-09
| <<_transformers,camelCase transformer names>> (*translated*, *ignored* when the lowercase form is
set too)

| link:/changelogs/updatecli/changelogs/v0.23.0[v0.23.0]
| 2022-04-06
| 2023-04-06
| <<_stage_identifiers,`scmID` and `sourceID`>> (*translated*)
|===

* `commitmessage.title` is **ignored**, not translated - see <<_commit_messages>>.
* Moving a `json`, `toml`, or `csv` resource to `dasel/v3` turns `query` into a **hard error** and
changes the selector syntax - see <<_dasel_engines>>.
NOTE: The `updatecli-action` `v1` and `v2` branches are not in the table. They belong to
`updatecli/updatecli-action`, which is versioned separately from Updatecli itself, so no Updatecli
release deprecated them and the twelve-month clock does not apply. See <<_branches_v1_and_v2>>.

[#_commands]
== Commands

The four original top-level commands moved under `pipeline` and `manifest`. All four still run and
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See the link:/docs/commands/[Commands] reference for the current command tree.

[#_manifest_keys]
== Manifest keys

[#_stage_identifiers]
=== Stage identifiers

Mixed-case and snake_case keys were normalised to lowercase. The old spelling is copied onto the new
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| `scmID`
| `scmid`
| sources, conditions, targets, actions
| sources, conditions, targets
| v0.23.0

| `scmID`
| `scmid`
| actions, which only exist from this release on
| v0.40.0

| `sourceID`
| `sourceid`
| conditions, targets
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Resource `kind` values must also be lowercase. A capitalised kind is accepted and lowercased with
`kind value "..." must be lowercase`.

[#_top_level_keys]
=== Top-level keys

[cols="1,1,2,1", options="header"]
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| v0.40.0
|===

[#_action_kinds]
=== Action kinds

Both were renamed when actions grew beyond pull requests. Deprecated since v0.40.0.
Both were renamed when actions grew beyond pull requests.

[cols="1,1", options="header"]
[cols="1,1,1", options="header"]
|===
| Deprecated | Use instead
| Deprecated | Use instead | Since

| `kind: github`
| `kind: github/pullrequest`
| v0.40.0

| `kind: gitea`
| `kind: gitea/pullrequest`
| v0.40.0
|===

[#_transformers]
== Transformers

Every camelCase transformer was renamed to lowercase in v0.25.0. The behaviour is unchanged.
Every camelCase transformer was renamed to lowercase, all of them in the same release. The behaviour
is unchanged.

[cols="1,1", options="header"]
[cols="1,1,1", options="header"]
|===
| Deprecated | Use instead
| Deprecated | Use instead | Since

| `addPrefix`
| `addprefix`
| v0.25.0

| `addSuffix`
| `addsuffix`
| v0.25.0

| `trimPrefix`
| `trimprefix`
| v0.25.0

| `trimSuffix`
| `trimsuffix`
| v0.25.0

| `semverInc`
| `semverinc`
| v0.25.0

| `findSubMatch`
| `findsubmatch`
| v0.25.0

| `findSubMatch.captureIndex`
| `findsubmatch.captureindex`
| v0.25.0
|===

The deprecated spellings are hidden from the JSON schema, so an editor completing from the schema
will only ever offer the lowercase form. See the
link:/docs/core/transformer/["Transformer" page].

[#_actions]
== Actions

[#_githubpullrequest_automerge]
=== `github/pullrequest`: `automerge`

Deprecated in v0.116.0 in favour of `merge.strategy`, which offers three behaviours where
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`client` has no `automerge` equivalent, so it is only reachable after migrating. See the
link:/docs/plugins/actions/github/["GitHub Pull Request" page].

[#_resource_plugins]
== Resource plugins

[#_dasel_engines]
=== Dasel engines

`json`, `toml`, and `csv` read and write through Dasel, selected by the `engine` parameter.
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The link:/docs/plugins/resource/json/["JSON" page] compares the selectors engine by engine, and the
link:https://daseldocs.tomwright.me/[Dasel documentation] covers the v3 syntax in full.

[#_deprecated_parameters]
=== Deprecated parameters

[cols="1,1,1,2,1", options="header"]
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| v0.97.0
|===

[#_commit_messages]
== Commit messages

[WARNING]
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`scope`, `body`, `footers`, `hidecredit`) still applies.
====

[#_yaml_key_syntax]
== YAML key syntax

[WARNING]
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This applies to `key` and to every entry in `keys`, on sources, conditions, and targets alike.
====

[#_compose_file_name]
== Compose file name

The default compose file was renamed from `update-compose.yaml` to `updatecli-compose.yaml` in
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Renaming the file is the whole migration. See the link:/docs/core/compose/["Compose" page].

[#_updatecli_action]
== updatecli-action

[#_branches_v1_and_v2]
=== Branches `v1` and `v2`

The `v1` and `v2` branches of `updatecli/updatecli-action` are deprecated. Pin a released version
instead, or track `main` if you deliberately want the branch tip.

Across a whole organization, an Updatecli policy does the migration for you:

.updatecli-compose.yaml
[source,yaml]
----
{{<include "assets/code_example/docs/help/deprecations/updatecli-compose.yaml">}}
----

Then:

[source,shell]
----
updatecli compose diff
updatecli compose apply
----

See the link:/docs/automate/github_action/["GitHub Action" page] for how to pin the action, and
link:/docs/core/compose/["Compose"] for the file format.
These branches belong to the action's own repository, which is versioned separately from Updatecli,
so this deprecation is not tied to any Updatecli release and is absent from
<<_deprecations_by_release>>.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

State the supported action version explicitly.

The related content/en/docs/automate/github_action.adoc guidance requires the deprecated v1 and v2 branches to move to v3 or later. This section only says “pin a released version” and presents main as an alternative. State “Use v3 or later and pin a released version.” If main remains supported, label it as an intentional development choice. (github.com)

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In `@content/en/docs/help/deprecations.adoc` around lines 629 - 631, Update the
deprecation guidance in the surrounding section to explicitly require using
action version v3 or later and pinning a released version; if main remains an
option, clearly label it as an intentional development choice.

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[#_go_further]
== Go Further

* link:/changelogs/updatecli[Changelogs] - what shipped in each release.
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