1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sphinx/util/jsdump.py b/sphinx/util/jsdump.py
index ed5aea4ba..77acef9d2 100644
--- a/sphinx/util/jsdump.py
+++ b/sphinx/util/jsdump.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Uses the basestring encode function from simplejson by Bob Ippolito.
 import re
 from typing import IO, Any, Dict, List, Match, Union
 
+from sphinx.deprecation import RemovedInSphinx70Warning, deprecated_alias
+
 _str_re = re.compile(r'"(\\\\|\\"|[^"])*"')
 _int_re = re.compile(r'\d+')
 _name_re = re.compile(r'[a-zA-Z_]\w*')
@@ -192,3 +194,21 @@ def loads(x: str) -> Any:
 
 def load(f: IO) -> Any:
     return loads(f.read())
+
+
+deprecated_alias(
+    'sphinx.util.jsdump',
+    {
+        'dumps': dumps,
+        'dump': dump,
+        'loads': loads,
+        'load': load,
+    },
+    RemovedInSphinx70Warning,
+    {
+        'dumps': 'json.dumps',
+        'dump': 'json.dump',
+        'loads': 'json.loads',
+        'load': 'json.load',
+    }
+)