diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
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@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # CBT - The Ceph Benchmarking Tool
 
+Release v0.3 will be the final version of CBT that contains support for cosbench.
+There will be a PR soon that will deprecate support for cosbench. If you require
+support for cosbench please continue to use v0.3.
+
+PR https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/60169 implements a change to remove qa/tasks cosbench 
+infrastructure from the Teuthology suite. Ceph releases Quincy and newer did not have any
+cosbench suite tests, since teuthology pulls the latest version of CBT and the ceph CI/CD
+pipeline are run tests from teuthology for Quincy and newer, there are not any backward
+compatibility issues related to removal of cosbench from CBT.
+
 ## INTRODUCTION
 
 CBT is a testing harness written in python that can automate a variety of tasks
diff --git a/benchmark/cosbench.py b/benchmark/cosbench.py
index 46dda0db..7d710302 100644
--- a/benchmark/cosbench.py
+++ b/benchmark/cosbench.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ def __init__(self, archive_dir, cluster, config):
 
         config = self.parse_conf(config)
 
+        logger.warning("Cosbench support within CBT will be deprecated in a later PR. Please use release tag v0.3 for continued use of cosbench.")
+
         self.op_size = config["obj_size"]
         self.total_procs = config["workers"]
         self.containers = config["containers_max"]