-There are no deprecated features in this release, but there is a large number of feature removals:
-* ``opendaylight-inventory`` and ``opendaylight-topology`` models have been moved to OpenFlow Plugin
-* support for upgrading from versions before ``Sodium SR`` was removed
-* prefix-based shards have been completely removed
-* the proof-of-concept ``messagebus`` component was removed
+Distributed Datastore's ``ask-based`` protocol has been deprecated in this release. Enabling it
+will cause a warning to be logged. Configuration knob along with the actual implementation
+is schedule for removal in a future release.