diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index d5e6b5fe5a..943d101068 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ export {
   buildASTSchema,
   // Build a GraphQLSchema from a GraphQL schema language document.
   buildSchema,
-  // Get the description from a schema AST node.
+  // @deprecated: Get the description from a schema AST node and supports legacy
+  // syntax for specifying descriptions - will be removed in v16
   getDescription,
   // Extends an existing GraphQLSchema from a parsed GraphQL Schema
   // language AST.
diff --git a/src/type/schema.js b/src/type/schema.js
index 70432a8504..f2d0ee0d29 100644
--- a/src/type/schema.js
+++ b/src/type/schema.js
@@ -252,8 +252,7 @@ export type GraphQLSchemaValidationOptions = {|
    * in this list valid, even if they do not adhere to the specification's
    * schema validation rules.
    *
-   * This option is provided to ease adoption and may be removed in a future
-   * major release.
+   * This option is provided to ease adoption and will be removed in v15.
    */
   allowedLegacyNames?: ?$ReadOnlyArray<string>,
 |};
diff --git a/src/utilities/buildASTSchema.js b/src/utilities/buildASTSchema.js
index 85f85ac5cf..7ab715790c 100644
--- a/src/utilities/buildASTSchema.js
+++ b/src/utilities/buildASTSchema.js
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ export type BuildSchemaOptions = {
    * Descriptions are defined as preceding string literals, however an older
    * experimental version of the SDL supported preceding comments as
    * descriptions. Set to true to enable this deprecated behavior.
+   * This option is provided to ease adoption and will be removed in v16.
    *
    * Default: false
    */
@@ -471,6 +472,7 @@ function getDeprecationReason(
 
 /**
  * Given an ast node, returns its string description.
+ * @deprecated: provided to ease adoption and will be removed in v16.
  *
  * Accepts options as a second argument:
  *
diff --git a/src/utilities/index.js b/src/utilities/index.js
index 39f956803c..cf14c719c0 100644
--- a/src/utilities/index.js
+++ b/src/utilities/index.js
@@ -51,7 +51,13 @@ export { introspectionFromSchema } from './introspectionFromSchema';
 export { buildClientSchema } from './buildClientSchema';
 
 // Build a GraphQLSchema from GraphQL Schema language.
-export { buildASTSchema, buildSchema, getDescription } from './buildASTSchema';
+export {
+  buildASTSchema,
+  buildSchema,
+  // @deprecated: Get the description from a schema AST node and supports legacy
+  // syntax for specifying descriptions - will be removed in v16
+  getDescription,
+} from './buildASTSchema';
 export type { BuildSchemaOptions } from './buildASTSchema';
 
 // Extends an existing GraphQLSchema from a parsed GraphQL Schema language AST.