I just committed this change for future releases, and similarly updated the published version on the EPICS site:
woz$ git tip -p
commit a514ab7b51db108336dc234cb774af2603e51696 (HEAD ->
master,
upstream/master,
origin/master,
origin/HEAD)
Date: Mon Mar 15 12:12:15 2021 -0500
Add missing removal instructions for destroy()
diff --git a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 6df2527..095b40c 100644
--- a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ This document summarizes the changes to the module between releases.
## Release 4.5.3 (EPICS 7.0.5 Feb 2021)
* The previously deprecated destroy methods have been removed.
+ Any application code that was previously calling these can just remove
+ those calls.
## Release 4.5.2 (EPICS 7.0.3.2 May 2020)