diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index bc098fe7c7..79383ca808 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Rewrite DaitchMokotoffSoundex.soundex(String) using String.join().</action>
       <action type="fix" issue="CODEC-324" dev="ggregory" due-to="Michael Froh">Use Resource.class to load resources, rather than its class loader #353.</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate CharSequenceUtils.CharSequenceUtils().</action>
       <!-- ADD -->
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 from 3.14.0 to 3.17.0 #296, #305, #313.</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/CharSequenceUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/CharSequenceUtils.java
index 0625e65699..ece4d81d03 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/CharSequenceUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/CharSequenceUtils.java
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@
  */
 public class CharSequenceUtils {
 
+    /**
+     * Consider package-private.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be package-private in the next major version.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public CharSequenceUtils() {
+        // empty
+    }
+
     /**
      * Green implementation of regionMatches.
      *