From 03fe7a642484dc7afcd2bc086abc182837d1b17f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:45:26 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add a deprecation notice for the offsite spider middleware.

---
 docs/news.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index b2fe78bc6..5fad2e425 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -1219,6 +1219,17 @@ Security bug fixes
 
     .. _defusedxml: https://github.com/tiran/defusedxml
 
+Deprecations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-   ``scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware`` (a spider
+    middleware) is now deprecated and not enabled by default. The new
+    downloader middleware with the same functionality,
+    :class:`scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware`, is enabled
+    instead.
+    (:issue:`2241`, :issue:`6358`)
+
+
 Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~