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diff --git a/help/en/releasenotes/current-draft-note.shtml b/help/en/releasenotes/current-draft-note.shtml
@@ -484,6 +484,15 @@
     <h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
         <a id="Misc" name="Misc"></a>
         <ul>
-            <li></li>
+            <li>The <code>getBeanByUserName<code> and <code>getBeanBySystemName<code> 
+                calls in the various <code>Manager<code> classes
+                are no longer needed with Java 8 and have been deprecated for eventual
+                removal.  Their replacements are 
+                <code>getByUserName<code> and <code>getBySystemName<code> 
+                respectively.
+                If you use <code>getBeanByUserName<code> and <code>getBeanBySystemName<code> 
+                in script or Java code you've written, please 
+                switch to the new names.
+            </li>
         </ul>
 
diff --git a/help/en/releasenotes/current-draft-warnings.shtml b/help/en/releasenotes/current-draft-warnings.shtml
@@ -19,3 +19,14 @@
         to installing JMRI 4.19.1 (or later) and check the JMRI Console to
         see if there are any instructions there.
     </li>
+    <li>
+        The <code>getBeanByUserName<code> and <code>getBeanBySystemName<code> 
+        calls in the various <code>Manager<code> classes
+        are no longer needed with Java 8 and have been deprecated for eventual
+        removal.  Their replacements are 
+        <code>getByUserName<code> and <code>getBySystemName<code> 
+        respectively. 
+        If you use <code>getBeanByUserName<code> and <code>getBeanBySystemName<code> 
+        in script or Java code you've written, please 
+        switch to the new names.
+    </li>