Deprecated meaning

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When jQuery  Microsoft or some other software company says  this function is deprecated    For example  when there is a func1 that works fine in version 1 0 and is deprecated in version 2 0 that also introduces a new func2    Should func1 also be included in version 2 0 for backwards compatibility  Is func1 supposed to work without bugs in version 2 0    func2 is fine with versions 2 and 1  Is func2 allowed not to work correctly in version 2 0    What does deprecation really mean and does it mean the same in all organizations   For ex  the live method in jQuery doesn t work in 1 7 in IE but it does in Chrome

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The simplest answer to the meaning of deprecated when used to describe software APIs is         Stop using APIs marked as deprecated    They will go away in a future release      Start using the new versions ASAP

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Deprecated in general means  don t use it   A deprecated function may or may not work  but it is not guaranteed to work

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I think the Wikipedia-article on Deprecation answers this one pretty well      In the process of authoring computer software  its standards or documentation  deprecation is a status applied to software features to indicate that they should be avoided  typically because they have been superseded  Although deprecated features remain in the software  their use may raise warning messages recommending alternative practices  and deprecation may indicate that the feature will be removed in the future  Features are deprecated   rather than immediately removed   in order to provide backward compatibility  and give programmers who have used the feature time to bring their code into compliance with the new standard

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If there are true answers to those questions  it would be different per software vendor and would be defined by the vendor  I don t know of any true industry standards that are followed with regards to this matter   Historically with Microsoft  they ll mark something as deprecated and state they ll remove it in a future version  That can be several versions before they actually get rid of it though

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Deprecated means they don t recommend using it  and that it isn t undergoing further development  But it should not work differently than it did in a previous version unless documentation explicitly states that    Yes  otherwise it wouldn t be called  deprecated  Unless stated otherwise in docs  it should be the same as before No  but if there were problems in v1 they aren t about to fix them

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