Issue #13988: cElementTree is deprecated and the _elementtree accelerator is automatically used whenever available.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index a46d99d..07ec22d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -32,17 +32,18 @@
The :class:`ElementTree` class can be used to wrap an element structure, and
convert it from and to XML.
-A C implementation of this API is available as :mod:`xml.etree.cElementTree`.
-
See http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm for tutorials and links to other
-docs. Fredrik Lundh's page is also the location of the development version of
-the xml.etree.ElementTree.
+docs.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
The ElementTree API is updated to 1.3. For more information, see
`Introducing ElementTree 1.3
<http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree-13-intro.htm>`_.
+.. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ This module will use a fast implementation whenever available.
+ The :mod:`xml.etree.cElementTree` module is deprecated.
+
.. _elementtree-functions:
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index dd29681..8cabab6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -842,6 +842,8 @@
* :issue:`13374`: The Windows bytes API has been deprecated in the :mod:`os`
module. Use Unicode filenames, instead of bytes filenames, to not depend on
the ANSI code page anymore and to support any filename.
+* :issue:`13988`: The :mod:`xml.etree.cElementTree` module is deprecated. The
+ accelerator is used automatically whenever available.
Deprecated functions and types of the C API