Hi,
  
 As highlighted in a previous email with the release of Kubernetes 1.22 several APIs are removed, among them v1beta1 CRDs. Such operators will cease to function on OpenShift 4.9 and will block 4.8->4.9 upgrades for customers.
  
 Usage of v1beta1 CRDs is still very popular among the community operators in OCP. If you own such an operator, see the following discussion in the git repository to learn about how the pipeline will start to check for such API usage and how it impacts submitting new versions of your operator: https://github.com/redhat-openshift-ecosystem/community-operators-prod/discussions/138