Add deprecations for checknan keyword argument and add to NEWS.md

NEWS.md

@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Library improvements
 
   * `deepcopy` recurses through immutable types and makes copies of their mutable fields ([#8560]).
 
+Deprecated or removed
+---------------------
+
+  * `median` and `median!` no longer accept a `checknan` keyword argument ([#8605]).
+
 Julia v0.3.0 Release Notes
 ==========================
 
@@ -852,6 +857,7 @@ Too numerous to mention.
 [#3688]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3688
 [#3697]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3697
 [#3719]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3719
+[#3759]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3759
 [#3790]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3790
 [#3819]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3819
 [#3872]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3872
@@ -913,6 +919,7 @@ Too numerous to mention.
 [#5381]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5381
 [#5387]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5387
 [#5403]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5403
+[#5413]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5413
 [#5423]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5423
 [#5427]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5427
 [#5428]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5428
@@ -962,6 +969,7 @@ Too numerous to mention.
 [#6678]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6678
 [#6716]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6716
 [#6726]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6726
+[#6739]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6739
 [#6769]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6769
 [#6773]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6773
 [#6911]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6911
@@ -981,6 +989,7 @@ Too numerous to mention.
 [#7146]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7146
 [#7236]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7236
 [#7242]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7242
+[#7311]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7311
 [#7359]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7359
 [#7365]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7365
 [#7373]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7373
@@ -990,14 +999,12 @@ Too numerous to mention.
 [#7513]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7513
 [#7647]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7647
 [#7654]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7654
+[#7704]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7704
 [#7917]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7917
 [#7992]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7992
 [#8011]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8011
 [#8089]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8089
-[#7704]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7704
-[#5413]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5413
-[#3759]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3759
-[#7311]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7311
+[#8152]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8152
 [#8423]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8423
-[#8152]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8152
-[#6739]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6739
+[#8560]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8560
+[#8605]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8605

base/deprecated.jl

@@ -185,3 +185,7 @@ const Nothing = Void
 
 export None
 const None = Union()
+
+@deprecate median(v::AbstractArray; checknan::Bool=true)  median(v)
+@deprecate median(v::AbstractArray, region; checknan::Bool=true)  median(v, region)
+@deprecate median!(v::AbstractVector; checknan::Bool=true)  median!(v)