diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index d06144f1e96de..52336d1dec715 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ libavutil:     2015-08-28
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2017-09-26 - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.106.102 - avcodec.h
+  Deprecate AVCodecContext.refcounted_frames. This was useful for deprecated
+  API only (avcodec_decode_video2/avcodec_decode_audio4). The new decode APIs
+  (avcodec_send_packet/avcodec_receive_frame) always work with reference
+  counted frames.
+
 2017-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavu 55.76.100 / 56.6.0 - pixdesc.h
   Add av_color_range_from_name(), av_color_primaries_from_name(),
   av_color_transfer_from_name(), av_color_space_from_name(), and
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 07d9f3e255dcc..b5bbc591ac6ee 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -2683,6 +2683,7 @@ typedef struct AVCodecContext {
      * - encoding: unused
      * - decoding: set by the caller before avcodec_open2().
      */
+    attribute_deprecated
     int refcounted_frames;
 
     /* - encoding parameters */
diff --git a/libavcodec/version.h b/libavcodec/version.h
index e1224752bd74b..3008460b93e52 100644
--- a/libavcodec/version.h
+++ b/libavcodec/version.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR  57
 #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR 106
-#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO 101
+#define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MICRO 102
 
 #define LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_INT  AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MAJOR, \
                                                LIBAVCODEC_VERSION_MINOR, \