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A new warning system notifies users when their configured model is approaching or past its retirement date, including the deprecation date and a suggestion to switch.
Evidence
Deprecation warning generator (search for "was retired on")
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Related
Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.