Table Boundaries (deprecated)—what does it mean?

I just noticed that in the View menu, both Text Boundaries and Table Boundaries now have the text “(deprecated)” after them. What does that mean exactly? Is LibreOffice now telling us how we should work or is there some new setting that isn’t in the view menu?

It honestly seems like a bizarre thing to put in a menu.

This means that you have your menu customized, which results in the menu not updated when the program updates; and hence, when we make changes to menu commands - like making some command deprecated in favor of another, exposing that functionality in some better way - you still have the old item shown there. We change the title of the deprecated items, to make it easier to switch to the new commands; and that reflects in your UI.

The problem of menu modifications making the whole menu not updated is a kind of a bug itself.

Current look of the View menu is like this:

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Thanks. I don’t recall customising it (unlike toolbars), but I must have.

Pity there’s no option to reset a menu to the default. I’ll reconstruct it from your screenshot.

Here’s what mine looks like now:

Edit: Hmm…now I’m wondering what’s in that Page Layout menu and how I can recreate it.
Strange that the Show Boundaries command doesn’t have an icon for the toolbar.