diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/LoadIncrementalHFiles.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/LoadIncrementalHFiles.java
index a9266182e52..5dfb38616c9 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/LoadIncrementalHFiles.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/LoadIncrementalHFiles.java
@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ import org.apache.hbase.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFacto
 
 /**
  * Tool to load the output of HFileOutputFormat into an existing table.
+ * <p/>
+ * Notice that, by default, this class should be kept till 4.0.0, but as this is a bad practice that
+ * we expose an implementation class instead of an interface, we want to fix it ASAP. That's why we
+ * will remove this class completely in 3.0.0. Please change your code to use
+ * {@link BulkLoadHFiles}.
  * @deprecated since 2.2.0, will be removed in 3.0.0. Use {@link BulkLoadHFiles} instead. Please
  *             rewrite your code if you rely on methods other than the {@link #run(Map, TableName)}
  *             and {@link #run(String, TableName)}, as all the methods other than them will be
@@ -155,7 +160,7 @@ public class LoadIncrementalHFiles extends Configured implements Tool {
    * the case where a region has split during the process of the load. When this happens, the HFile
    * is split into two physical parts across the new region boundary, and each part is added back
    * into the queue. The import process finishes when the queue is empty.
-   * @deprecated since 2.2.0 and will be removed in 4.0.0. Use {@link BulkLoadHFiles} instead.
+   * @deprecated since 2.2.0 and will be removed in 3.0.0. Use {@link BulkLoadHFiles} instead.
    * @see BulkLoadHFiles
    * @see <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21782">HBASE-21782</a>
    */