From 5d6faeb2f8239724e8c871174e817b9f71a87014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: s-hertel <19572925+s-hertel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:07:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add deprecated to paramiko_ssh DOCUMENTATION

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
index 3355f11f02a..e1bd8fac621 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/paramiko_ssh.py
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
     author: Ansible Core Team
     name: paramiko
     short_description: Run tasks via Python SSH (paramiko)
+    deprecated:
+      removed_in: "2.21"
+      why: Paramiko versions older than 3.3.2 and 3.4.1 will be incompatible with cryptography 48.0.0.
+      alternatives: ansible.builtin.ssh
     description:
         - Use the Python SSH implementation (Paramiko) to connect to targets
         - The paramiko transport is provided because many distributions, in particular EL6 and before do not support ControlPersist