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Serialization is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0

Author: garydgregory

src/changes/changes.xml

@@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Marcono1234">
         Fix overflow for FileUtilsTest constants #456.
       </action>
+      <action dev="ggregory" type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">
+        Serialization is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0.
+      </action>
       <!-- ADD -->
       <action type="add" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">
         Add GitHub coverage.yml.

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/monitor/SerializableFileTime.java

@@ -28,7 +28,12 @@
 import org.apache.commons.io.file.attribute.FileTimes;
 
 /**
- * Wraps a {@link FileTime} and allows it to be serializable.
+ * Wraps a {@link FileTime} and allows it to be Serializable.
+ *
+ * <h2>Deprecating Serialization</h2>
+ * <p>
+ * <em>Serialization is deprecated and will be removed in 3.0.</em>
+ * </p>
  */
 class SerializableFileTime implements Serializable {