As it was announced via CocoaPods Support Plan and via CocoaPods Spec Repository, CocoaPods is transitioning their project to maintenance mode, and cocoapods trunk is going to be read-only in a few months.
The OpenTelemetry Swift maintainers are planning to deprecate CocoaPods support for all the pods published under opentelemetry-swift and opentelemetry-swift-core.
Swift Package Manager (SPM) is now the recommended and preferred installation method for all new integrations.
We encourage existing CocoaPods users to begin planning a migration to SPM.

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OpenTelemetry Swift maintainers are deprecating CocoaPods support for all pods under opentelemetry-swift and opentelemetry-swift-core. The change is driven by CocoaPods transitioning to maintenance mode with a read-only trunk, plus the growing maintenance burden of supporting multiple package managers. Swift Package Manager (SPM) is now the recommended installation method. The timeline runs from July 2026 through December 2026, with the final CocoaPods release no later than September 30, 2026. Existing integrations will continue to work, but new features, bug fixes, and security updates will only be available via SPM after the cutoff.

CocoaPods Deprecation Notice for OpenTelemetry Swift