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@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ has been updated by a newer version of kOps unless it is given the `--allow-kops
 
 # Deprecations
 
-* Support for Kubernetes versions 1.11 and 1.12 are deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.20.
+* Support for Kubernetes versions 1.11 and 1.12 has been deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.20.
+
+* Support for Docker container runtime has been deprecated and will be replaced with containerd for new clusters as of kOps 1.20. For existing clusters the default behaviour can be overridden by setting `spec.containerRuntime: containerd` in the cluster spec. This change closely tracks the upstream [deprecation of Docker](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker).
 
 * Support for Terraform version 0.11 has been deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.20.