Deprecated and removed features

The following features have been deprecated or removed from Starknet in recent releases.

Status Description

Deprecated

Feature or capability is no longer actively supported. It may still work, but future fixes or enhancements are unlikely.

Removed

Feature or capability has been removed from Starknet.

Deprecated features

Name

Description

Starknet CLI

The Starknet CLI will be deprecated soon and replaced by Starkli.

Support for Starknet CLI will be removed in Starknet v0.13.0.

Cairo 0

Starknet v0.11.0 introduces Cairo 1.0 smart contracts.

Removed features

Name

Description

Free L1→ L2 messaging

Previously, sending a message from L1 to L2 had an optional fee associated.

From Starknet v0.11.0, the fee mechanism is enforced and the ability to send L1→L2 messages without the corresponding L2 fee has been removed.

See here for more details.

invoke transaction v0

invoke transaction v0 has been removed since Starknet v0.11.0.

declare transaction v0

declare transaction v0 has been removed since Starknet v0.11.0.

deploy transaction

The deploy transaction has been removed since Starknet v0.10.3.

To deploy new contract instances, you can use the deploy system call.