# Cisco.dnac has been deprecated, what to do about his? **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** cisco, community-wg, collections\ **Created:** [March 30, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609 "2026-03-30T18:16:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/1 "2026-03-30T18:16:49Z")
The `cisco.dnac` collection has been [deprecated](https://github.com/cisco-en-programmability/dnacenter-ansible/pull/324). What should we do about it? I wanted to [removed it](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/660) from the community package. But @gotmax23 reverted this [here](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/662) in order to wait for some feedback from Cisco. Don’t get me wrong, I have been and I still am fine with this. But according to [this comment](https://github.com/cisco-en-programmability/dnacenter-ansible/issues/327#issuecomment-4156140630) I think we should remove the collection from the ansible community package. At the end of the day, it _is_ deprecated. Whether `cisco.catalystcenter` is part of ACP doesn’t make a difference to me. ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/2 "2026-03-30T18:29:00Z")
I agree. Since the collection maintainers apparently explicitly decided against the [collection renaming procedure](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible-build-data/#renaming-a-collection) by not making `cisco.catalystcenter` backwards compatible to `cisco.dnac`, I think we should simply remove `cisco.dnac` from Ansible 14 as it’s deprecated. ---
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/3 "2026-03-30T21:08:08Z")
Also agree ---
**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/4 "2026-03-30T21:16:22Z")
I agree to remove the deprecated collection. ---
**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/5 "2026-03-31T08:54:07Z")
Agree, time to remove. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Fulmer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/steve_fulmer/32/5356_2.png) [@Steve\_Fulmer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Fulmer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/6 "2026-03-31T13:31:56Z")
Agreed , remove it ---
**Author:** ![mariolenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/mariolenz/32/108_2.png) [@mariolenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mariolenz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cisco-dnac-has-been-deprecated-what-to-do-about-his/45609/7 "2026-03-31T15:18:03Z")
Looks like nobody objects, so: [Remove deprecated cisco.dnac from Ansible 14](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/pull/664).