# Deprecated elements

### tasks/ext/phpunit/BatchTest.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 190 |

### tasks/system/AppendTask.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 78 | Will be removed with final release.

### tasks/system/PropertyPromptTask.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 25 | - in favor of the more capable InputTask

### tasks/system/UpToDateTask.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 112 | Deprecated since Phing 2.4.0

### util/StringHelper.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 51 |

### Phing.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 1395 | This method is deprecated and is no longer called by Phing internally. Any normal shutdown routines are handled by the shutdown() method.

### system/io/InputStreamReader.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 105 | Use read() or BufferedReader instead.

### system/io/InputStream.php1

Type | Line | Description
--- | --- | ---
deprecated | 157 | - Instead, use the read() method or a BufferedReader.