Deprecations Tell You Where the Platform Is Headed

Feature announcements describe the present release, while the deprecation section quietly describes the next three, and planning teams should read it that way.

Nothing in release notes is more forward-looking than the list of things being retired. Deprecations are the platform announcing which patterns it will stop paying for.

Mining the deprecation section

• Map each deprecation to the integrations that still use it.
• Note the replacement pattern and its maturity today.
• Schedule migrations by the deprecation clock, not by convenience.

Use the changelog, MCP roadmap, and integration guide to plan integrations around where the platform is going, not where it was.