diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index d31af42e56e..23e85544047 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ Release 0.91.0 - Unreleased
                MiniZooKeeperCluster for test writing (Liyin Tang via Stack)
    HBASE-3696  isMajorCompaction() check triggers lots of listStatus DFS RPC
                calls from HBase (Liyin Tang via Stack)
+   HBASE-3717  deprecate HTable isTableEnabled() methods in favor of
+               HBaseAdmin methods (David Butler via Stack)
 
   TASK
    HBASE-3559  Move report of split to master OFF the heartbeat channel
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java
index e7f8b072f8e..5c9310eed82 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HTable.java
@@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ public class HTable implements HTableInterface {
    * @param tableName Name of table to check.
    * @return {@code true} if table is online.
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
+	* @deprecated use {@link HBaseAdmin#isTableEnabled(byte[])}
    */
+  @Deprecated
   public static boolean isTableEnabled(String tableName) throws IOException {
     return isTableEnabled(Bytes.toBytes(tableName));
   }
@@ -233,7 +235,9 @@ public class HTable implements HTableInterface {
    * @param tableName Name of table to check.
    * @return {@code true} if table is online.
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
+	* @deprecated use {@link HBaseAdmin#isTableEnabled(byte[])}
    */
+  @Deprecated
   public static boolean isTableEnabled(byte[] tableName) throws IOException {
     return isTableEnabled(HBaseConfiguration.create(), tableName);
   }
@@ -244,7 +248,9 @@ public class HTable implements HTableInterface {
    * @param tableName Name of table to check.
    * @return {@code true} if table is online.
    * @throws IOException if a remote or network exception occurs
+	* @deprecated use {@link HBaseAdmin#isTableEnabled(byte[])}
    */
+  @Deprecated
   public static boolean isTableEnabled(Configuration conf, String tableName)
   throws IOException {
     return isTableEnabled(conf, Bytes.toBytes(tableName));