It's important to understand the difference between **deprecation** and
**removal**:
**Deprecation** is the process of flagging/marking/announcing that a feature
is scheduled for removal in a future version of GitLab.
**Deprecation** is the process of flagging/marking/announcing that a feature is no longer fully supported and may be removed in a future version of GitLab.
**Removal** is the process of actually removing a feature that was previously
