Officially deprecate cgroup v1, but maintain it until May 2029 at least #12443
Description
Moby maintainers agreed to officially deprecate cgroup v1, but maintain it until May 2029 at least:
So we have to keep maintaining it at least until May 2029.
The latest release in May 2029 does not necessarily need to support cgroup v1, but there should be at least one maintained branch with the support for cgroup v1.
Discussion in other projects
- pid1: stop refusing to boot with cgroup v1 systemd/systemd#34999
- The support for cgroup v1 was disabled by default in systemd v256 (Jun 2024), and removed in systemd v258 (Sep 2025)
- Remove cgroup v1 support kubernetes/enhancements#5573
- Proposal: synchronize cgroupv1 deprecation announcements opencontainers/runtime-spec#1251
- cgroupv1 has been deprecated (will be maintained until May 2029) opencontainers/runc#4955