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+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ backend settings instead of environment variables.  To ease migration to
 the new format, the ``-audiodev-help'' option can be used to convert
 the current values of the environment variables to ``-audiodev'' options.
 
+@subsection -mon ...,control=readline,pretty=on|off (since 4.1)
+
+The @code{pretty=on|off} switch has no effect for HMP monitors, but is
+silently ignored. Using the switch with HMP monitors will become an
+error in the future.
+
 @subsection -realtime (since 4.1)
 
 The @code{-realtime mlock=on|off} argument has been replaced by the
@@ -138,6 +144,14 @@ The ``acl_show'', ``acl_reset'', ``acl_policy'', ``acl_add'', and
 ``acl_remove'' commands are deprecated with no replacement. Authorization
 for VNC should be performed using the pluggable QAuthZ objects.
 
+@section Guest Emulator ISAs
+
+@subsection RISC-V ISA privledge specification version 1.09.1 (since 4.1)
+
+The RISC-V ISA privledge specification version 1.09.1 has been deprecated.
+QEMU supports both the newer version 1.10.0 and the ratified version 1.11.0, these
+should be used instead of the 1.09.1 version.
+
 @section System emulator CPUS
 
 @subsection RISC-V ISA CPUs (since 4.1)
@@ -175,6 +189,12 @@ This machine type uses an unmaintained firmware, broken in lots of ways,
 and unable to start post-2004 operating systems. 40p machine type should be
 used instead.
 
+@subsection spike_v1.9.1 and spike_v1.10 (since 4.1)
+
+The version specific Spike machines have been deprecated in favour of the
+generic ``spike`` machine. If you need to specify an older version of the RISC-V
+spec you can use the ``-cpu rv64gcsu,priv_spec=v1.9.1`` command line argument.
+
 @section Device options
 
 @subsection Block device options
@@ -231,3 +251,11 @@ Note that if you are exposing the export via /dev/nbd0, it is easier
 to just export the entire image and then mount only /dev/nbd0p1 than
 it is to reinvoke @command{qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0} limited to just a
 subset of the image.
+
+@section Build system
+
+@subsection Python 2 support (since 4.1.0)
+
+In the future, QEMU will require Python 3 to be available at
+build time.  Support for Python 2 in scripts shipped with QEMU
+is deprecated.