diff --git a/docs/releases/1.25-NOTES.md b/docs/releases/1.25-NOTES.md
index 85e433842d..dfd6336626 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.25-NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/releases/1.25-NOTES.md
@@ -23,8 +23,13 @@ The CSI Cinder plugin for OpenStack will now only use the CSI snapshotter when t
 # Deprecations
 
 * Support for Kubernetes version 1.20 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.26.
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 * Support for Kubernetes version 1.21 is deprecated and will be removed in kOps 1.27.
 
+* All legacy addons are deprecated in favor of managed addons, including the [metrics server addon](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/addons/metrics-server) and the [autoscaler addon](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/addons/cluster-autoscaler).
+
+* Due to lack of maintainers, the CloudFormation support has been deprecated. The current implementation will be left as-is until the implementation needs updates or otherwise becomes incompatible. At that point, it will be removed. We very much welcome anyone willing to contribute to this target.
+
 # Full change list since 1.24.0 release
 
 * [v1.25.0-alpha.1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/tag/v1.25.0-alpha.1)
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.26-NOTES.md b/docs/releases/1.26-NOTES.md
index bcc7951b7f..c2a36bad82 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.26-NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/releases/1.26-NOTES.md
@@ -39,5 +39,8 @@ CNIs, use the "cni" networking option instead.
 
 * Support for AWS Classic Load Balancer for API is deprecated and should not be used for newly created clusters.
 
+* All legacy addons are deprecated in favor of managed addons, including the [metrics server addon](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/addons/metrics-server) and the [autoscaler addon](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/addons/cluster-autoscaler).
+
+* Due to lack of maintainers, the CloudFormation support has been deprecated. The current implementation will be left as-is until the implementation needs updates or otherwise becomes incompatible. At that point, it will be removed. We very much welcome anyone willing to contribute to this target.
 
 # Full change list since 1.25.0 release