diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0cc84b1a..d9cf9299 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 - On macOS, updated core-* dependencies and cocoa.
 - Bump `parking_lot` to 0.11
 - On Android, bump `ndk`, `ndk-sys` and `ndk-glue` to 0.2. Checkout the new ndk-glue main proc attribute.
+- Deprecate the stdweb backend, to be removed in a future release
 - **Breaking:** Prefixed virtual key codes `Add`, `Multiply`, `Divide`, `Decimal`, and `Subtract` with `Numpad`.
 - Added `Asterisk` and `Plus` virtual key codes.
 
diff --git a/src/platform_impl/web/stdweb/mod.rs b/src/platform_impl/web/stdweb/mod.rs
index 2f38c178..6d517247 100644
--- a/src/platform_impl/web/stdweb/mod.rs
+++ b/src/platform_impl/web/stdweb/mod.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#![deprecated(since = "0.23.0", note = "Please migrate to web-sys over stdweb")]
+
 mod canvas;
 mod event;
 mod scaling;