## Current Behavior
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Custom task runners are a high level abstraction to customize caching, a
relatively low level mechanism, to utilize other methods of remote
caching. The abstraction of custom task runners makes it hard for Nx to
make guarantees to make it faster.
## Expected Behavior
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Custom task runners are now deprecated. They will still work for Nx 20
but a warning will be shown when they are being used. The migration path
is to use Nx Cloud (the ideal caching solution) or a Nx Powerpack cache
(written by the Nx Core team which we can make guarantees about).
## Related Issue(s)
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merged. -->
Fixes #
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