diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 79383ca808..c34d3a55fc 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <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>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate Sha2Crypt.Sha2Crypt().</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/digest/Sha2Crypt.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/digest/Sha2Crypt.java
index 52466d09fb..f004c83069 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/digest/Sha2Crypt.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/codec/digest/Sha2Crypt.java
@@ -613,4 +613,14 @@ public static String sha512Crypt(final byte[] keyBytes, String salt, final Rando
         }
         return sha2Crypt(keyBytes, salt, SHA512_PREFIX, SHA512_BLOCKSIZE, MessageDigestAlgorithms.SHA_512);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Consider private.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be private in the next major version.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public Sha2Crypt() {
+        // empty
+    }
 }