This page is the registry of specification features that are currently in the
Deprecated state under the
feature lifecycle and deprecation policy
(SEP-2596).A Deprecated feature remains part of the specification but is scheduled for
removal: new implementations SHOULD NOT adopt it, and existing
implementations SHOULD migrate before the feature’s earliest removal. The
earliest removal marks when a feature becomes eligible for removal; the
actual removal is a Core Maintainer decision taken during release preparation
and may happen later.This registry is a derived view kept consistent with the per-feature
deprecation notices and changelog entries, which are the normative records.
The HTTP+SSE transport and the includeContext values were already described
as deprecated before the lifecycle policy existed; SEP-2596 reclassifies them
as Deprecated under its transition provisions.
No features have been removed under this policy yet. When a Deprecated feature
is removed, its row moves to this section with a link to the changelog entry
recording the removal.
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