Deprecation notices

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/docs/announce/2018.01.md b/docs/announce/2018.01.md
index ac9343c..218bfb4 100644
--- a/docs/announce/2018.01.md
+++ b/docs/announce/2018.01.md
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ This is a post-Christmas (production) release of Rakudo Star and implements
 Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all module tests pass
 on supported platforms).  Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle. 
 
-IMPORTANT: "panda" has been removed from releases after 2017.10 since it is
-deprecated.  Please use "zef" instead.
-
 Please note that this release of Rakudo Star is not fully functional with the
 JVM backend from the Rakudo compiler. Please use the MoarVM backend only.
 
@@ -38,12 +35,20 @@ now listed in "2017.11.md", "2017.12.md", and "2018.01.md" under the
 Important Rakudo bug fixes are now listed at 
 [Perl 6 Alerts]: https://alerts.perl6.org/
 
+Deprecation:
+
+    + "panda" has been removed from releases after 2017.10 since it is
+deprecated.  Please use "zef".
+    + LWP::Simple is deprecated and will be removed. Please use "HTTP::UserAgent".
+
 Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star:
 
     + JSON-Class: Alter the way in which the re-exporting of the traits works
     + JSON-Marshal: Fix for associative and positional type objects
     + Pod-To-HTML: Document P6DOC\_DEBUG 
+    + datetime-parse: New. Dependency of http-useragent
     + doc: Too many to list.
+    + http-useragent: New. Intended as replacement for LWP::Simple (now deprecated)
     + json\_fast: fix off-by-one in treacherous escape detection
     + perl6-lwp-simple: HTML header names with mixed case fix
     + svg: Fix example in README