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Current Deprecations

• 9.4.0: :mod:`flow` support is deprecated and will be removed (:phab:`T371180`)
• 9.3.0: :meth:`page.BasePage.userName` and :meth:`page.BasePage.isIpEdit` are deprecated in favour of user or anon attributes of :attr:`page.BasePage.latest_revision` property
• 9.2.0: Imports of :mod:`logging` functions from :mod:`bot` module is deprecated and will be desupported
• 9.2.0: total argument in -logevents pagegenerators option is deprecated; use -limit instead (:phab:`T128981`)
• 9.0.0: The content parameter of :meth:`proofreadpage.IndexPage.page_gen` is deprecated and will be ignored (:phab:`T358635`)
• 9.0.0: userinterfaces.transliteration.transliterator was renamed to :class:`Transliterator <userinterfaces.transliteration.Transliterator>`
• 9.0.0: next parameter of :meth:`userinterfaces.transliteration.transliterator.transliterate` was renamed to succ
• 9.0.0: type parameter of :meth:`site.APISite.protectedpages() <pywikibot.site._generators.GeneratorsMixin.protectedpages>` was renamed to protect_type
• 9.0.0: all parameter of :meth:`site.APISite.namespace()<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.namespace>` was renamed to all_ns
• 9.0.0: filter parameter of :func:`date.dh` was renamed to filter_func
• 9.0.0: dict parameter of :class:`data.api.OptionSet` was renamed to data
• 9.0.0: pywikibot.version.get_toolforge_hostname() is deprecated without replacement
• 9.0.0: allrevisions parameter of :class:`xmlreader.XmpDump` is deprecated, use revisions instead (:phab:`T340804`)
• 9.0.0: iteritems method of :class:`data.api.Request` will be removed in favour of items
• 9.0.0: SequenceOutputter.output() is deprecated in favour of :attr:`tools.formatter.SequenceOutputter.out` property
• 9.0.0: nullcontext context manager and SimpleQueue queue of :mod:`backports` are derecated
• 8.4.0: modules_only_mode parameter of :class:`data.api.ParamInfo`, its paraminfo_keys class attribute and its preloaded_modules property will be removed
• 8.4.0: dropdelay and releasepid attributes of :class:`throttle.Throttle` will be removed in favour of expiry class attribute
• 8.2.0: :func:`tools.itertools.itergroup` will be removed in favour of :func:`backports.batched`
• 8.2.0: normalize parameter of :meth:`WbTime.toTimestr` and :meth:`WbTime.toWikibase` will be removed
• 8.1.0: Dependency of :exc:`exceptions.NoSiteLinkError` from :exc:`exceptions.NoPageError` will be removed
• 8.1.0: exceptions.Server414Error is deprecated in favour of :exc:`exceptions.Client414Error`
• 8.0.0: :meth:`Timestamp.clone()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.clone>` method is deprecated in favour of Timestamp.replace() method.
• 8.0.0: :meth:`family.Family.maximum_GET_length` method is deprecated in favour of :ref:`config.maximum_GET_length<Account Settings>` (:phab:`T325957`)
• 8.0.0: addOnly parameter of :func:`textlib.replaceLanguageLinks` and :func:`textlib.replaceCategoryLinks` are deprecated in favour of add_only
• 8.0.0: :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` regex attributes ptimeR, ptimeznR, pyearR, pmonthR, pdayR are deprecated in favour of patterns attribute which is a :class:`textlib.TimeStripperPatterns`.
• 8.0.0: :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` groups attribute is deprecated in favour of textlib.TIMEGROUPS
• 8.0.0: :meth:`LoginManager.get_login_token<login.ClientLoginManager.get_login_token>` was replaced by login.ClientLoginManager.site.tokens['login']
• 8.0.0: data.api.LoginManager() is deprecated in favour of :class:`login.ClientLoginManager`
• 8.0.0: :meth:`APISite.messages()<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.messages>` method is deprecated in favour of :attr:`userinfo['messages']<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.userinfo>`
• 8.0.0: :meth:`Page.editTime()<page.BasePage.editTime>` method is deprecated and should be replaced by :attr:`Page.latest_revision.timestamp<page.BasePage.latest_revision>`

Pending removal in Pywikibot 10

• 9.1.0: :func:`version.svn_rev_info` and :func:`version.getversion_svn` will be removed. SVN is no longer supported. (:phab:`T362484`)
• 7.7.0: :mod:`tools.threading` classes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
• 7.6.0: :mod:`tools.itertools` datatypes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
• 7.6.0: :mod:`tools.collections` datatypes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
• 7.5.0: :mod:`textlib`.tzoneFixedOffset class will be removed in favour of :class:`time.TZoneFixedOffset`
• 7.4.0: FilePage.usingPages() was renamed to :meth:`using_pages()<pywikibot.FilePage.using_pages>`
• 7.3.0: Old color escape sequences like \03{color} is deprecated in favour of new color format like <<color>>
• 7.3.0: linktrail method of :class:`family.Family` is deprecated; use :meth:`APISite.linktrail() <pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.linktrail>` instead
• 7.2.0: Positional arguments decoder, layer and newline for :mod:`logging` functions where dropped; keyword arguments must be used instead.
• 7.2.0: tb parameter of :func:`exception()<pywikibot.logging.exception>` function was renamed to exc_info
• 7.2.0: XMLDumpOldPageGenerator is deprecated in favour of a content parameter of :func:`XMLDumpPageGenerator<pagegenerators.XMLDumpPageGenerator>` (:phab:`T306134`)
• 7.2.0: RedirectPageBot and NoRedirectPageBot bot classes are deprecated in favour of :attr:`use_redirects<bot.BaseBot.use_redirects>` attribute
• 7.2.0: :func:`tools.formatter.color_format<tools.formatter.color_format>` is deprecated and will be removed
• 7.1.0: Unused get_redirect parameter of :meth:`Page.getOldVersion()<page.BasePage.getOldVersion>` will be removed
• 7.0.0: User.isBlocked() method is renamed to is_blocked for consistency
• 7.0.0: A boolean watch parameter in Page.save() is deprecated and will be desupported
• 7.0.0: baserevid parameter of editSource(), editQualifier(), removeClaims(), removeSources(), remove_qualifiers() DataSite methods will be removed
• 7.0.0: Values of APISite.allpages() parameter filterredir other than True, False and None are deprecated
• 7.0.0: The i18n identifier 'cosmetic_changes-append' will be removed in favour of 'pywikibot-cosmetic-changes'