From 29a2b57220f294e42fdcce909c3b86329ae1f12d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@club.fr>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 22:01:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add deprecation and NEWS entry

---
 NEWS.md            | 2 ++
 base/deprecated.jl | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 3f14cd4f51368..d71e0e4c30b53 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ Deprecated or removed
   * `select`, `select!`, `selectperm` and `selectperm!` have been renamed respectively to
     `partialsort`, `partialsort!`, `partialsortperm` and `partialsortperm!` ([#23051]).
 
+  * The `Range` abstract type has been renamed to `AbstractRange` ([#23570]).
+
 Command-line option changes
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/base/deprecated.jl b/base/deprecated.jl
index 9375f0982f611..20e4e5a77b05f 100644
--- a/base/deprecated.jl
+++ b/base/deprecated.jl
@@ -1733,6 +1733,8 @@ end
 
 @deprecate promote_noncircular promote false
 
+@deprecate_binding Range AbstractRange
+
 # END 0.7 deprecations
 
 # BEGIN 1.0 deprecations