diff --git a/docs/documentation/upgrading/topics/changes/changes-26_1_0.adoc b/docs/documentation/upgrading/topics/changes/changes-26_1_0.adoc
index 5206ef4604..8edce7c898 100644
--- a/docs/documentation/upgrading/topics/changes/changes-26_1_0.adoc
+++ b/docs/documentation/upgrading/topics/changes/changes-26_1_0.adoc
@@ -45,3 +45,7 @@ The {project_name} Operator will continue to configure `kubernetes` as a transpo
 
 When developing extensions for {project_name}, developers can now specify dependencies between provider factories classes by implementing the method `dependsOn()` in the `ProviderFactory` interface.
 See the Javadoc for a detailed description.
+
+= Removal of robots.txt file
+
+The `robots.txt` file, previously included by default, is now removed. The default `robots.txt` file blocked all crawling, which prevented the `noindex`/`nofollow` directives from being followed. The desired default behaviour is for {project_name} pages to not show up in search engine results and this is accomplished by the existing `X-Robots-Tag` header, which is set to `none` by default. The value of this header can be overidden per-realm if a different behaviour is needed.
diff --git a/docs/guides/server/reverseproxy.adoc b/docs/guides/server/reverseproxy.adoc
index cf84301766..74d8820420 100644
--- a/docs/guides/server/reverseproxy.adoc
+++ b/docs/guides/server/reverseproxy.adoc
@@ -121,11 +121,6 @@ The following table shows the recommended paths to expose.
 |Yes
 |This path is needed to serve assets correctly. It may be served from a CDN instead of the {project_name} path.
 
-|/robots.txt
-|/robots.txt
-|Yes
-|Search engine rules
-
 |/metrics
 |-
 |No
diff --git a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/RobotsResource.java b/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/RobotsResource.java
deleted file mode 100755
index 2ae831897d..0000000000
--- a/services/src/main/java/org/keycloak/services/resources/RobotsResource.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
- * and other contributors as indicated by the @author tags.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.keycloak.services.resources;
-
-import org.keycloak.utils.MediaType;
-
-import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
-import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
-import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
-import jakarta.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
-
-@Provider
-@Path("/robots.txt")
-public class RobotsResource {
-
-    private static final String robots = "User-agent: *\n" + "Disallow: /";
-
-    @GET
-    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN_UTF_8)
-    public String getRobots() {
-        return robots;
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/services/src/test/java/org/keycloak/services/resteasy/ResteasyKeycloakApplication.java b/services/src/test/java/org/keycloak/services/resteasy/ResteasyKeycloakApplication.java
index 994abdc3c7..e55e79a13a 100644
--- a/services/src/test/java/org/keycloak/services/resteasy/ResteasyKeycloakApplication.java
+++ b/services/src/test/java/org/keycloak/services/resteasy/ResteasyKeycloakApplication.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import org.keycloak.services.filters.KeycloakSecurityHeadersFilter;
 import org.keycloak.services.resources.KeycloakApplication;
 import org.keycloak.services.resources.LoadBalancerResource;
 import org.keycloak.services.resources.RealmsResource;
-import org.keycloak.services.resources.RobotsResource;
 import org.keycloak.services.resources.ThemeResource;
 import org.keycloak.services.resources.WelcomeResource;
 import org.keycloak.services.resources.admin.AdminRoot;
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@ public class ResteasyKeycloakApplication extends KeycloakApplication {
     protected Set<Class<?>> classes = new HashSet<>();
 
     public ResteasyKeycloakApplication() {
-        classes.add(RobotsResource.class);
         classes.add(RealmsResource.class);
         if (Profile.isFeatureEnabled(Profile.Feature.ADMIN_API)) {
             classes.add(AdminRoot.class);