diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 9ff43a2824..a18ce6b474 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ Upgrading
 2.2.4
 =====
 
+Deprecation
+-----------
+    - Pig support has been deprecated, and will be removed in 3.0.
+      Please see CASSANDRA-10542 for more details.
+
 Operations
 ----------
     - Switching racks is no longer an allowed operation on a node which has
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlNativeStorage.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlNativeStorage.java
index bdf99a0907..ba0a37d6dc 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlNativeStorage.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/CqlNativeStorage.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.yaml.snakeyaml.external.biz.base64Coder.Base64Coder;
 
-
+@Deprecated
 public class CqlNativeStorage extends LoadFunc implements StoreFuncInterface, LoadMetadata
 {
     protected String DEFAULT_INPUT_FORMAT;
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/StorageHelper.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/StorageHelper.java
index 66836b2559..d700cb7425 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/StorageHelper.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/hadoop/pig/StorageHelper.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import org.apache.pig.data.DataByteArray;
 import org.apache.pig.data.DataType;
 import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
 
+@Deprecated
 public class StorageHelper
 {
     // system environment variables that can be set to configure connection info: