diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 751514d28..d3ffcd00d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 ## Change Log
 
+### v2.88.0 (2018/08/10)
+- [#2996](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2996) fix(uuid): import versioned uuid (@kwonoj)
+- [#2994](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2994) Update to oauth-sign 0.9.0 (@dlecocq)
+- [#2993](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2993) Fix header tests (@simov)
+- [#2904](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2904) #515, #2894 Strip port suffix from Host header if the protocol is known. (#2904) (@paambaati)
+- [#2791](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2791) Improve AWS SigV4 support. (#2791) (@vikhyat)
+- [#2977](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2977) Update test certificates (@simov)
+
 ### v2.87.0 (2018/05/21)
 - [#2943](https://github.com/request/request/pull/2943) Replace hawk dependency with a local implemenation (#2943) (@hueniverse)
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e818a2b4d..99584c2d3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# Deprecated!
+
+As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.
+
+For more information about why request is deprecated and possible alternatives refer to
+[this issue](https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142).
 
 # Request - Simplified HTTP client
 
@@ -26,7 +32,7 @@ Request is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It suppo
 ```js
 const request = require('postman-request');
 request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
-  console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
+  console.error('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred
   console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
   console.log('body:', body); // Print the HTML for the Google homepage.
 });
@@ -94,7 +100,7 @@ To easily handle errors when streaming requests, listen to the `error` event bef
 request
   .get('http://mysite.com/doodle.png')
   .on('error', function(err) {
-    console.log(err)
+    console.error(err)
   })
   .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('doodle.png'))
 ```
@@ -966,12 +972,9 @@ request.defaults({
     work around this, either use [`request.defaults`](#requestdefaultsoptions)
     with your pool options or create the pool object with the `maxSockets`
     property outside of the loop.
-- `timeout` - integer containing number of milliseconds, controls two timeouts
-  - Time to wait for a server to send response headers (and start the response body) before aborting the request.
-    Note that if the underlying TCP connection cannot be established,
-    the OS-wide TCP connection timeout will overrule the `timeout` option ([the
-    default in Linux can be anywhere from 20-120 seconds][linux-timeout]).
-  - Sets the socket to timeout after `timeout` milliseconds of inactivity on the socket.
+- `timeout` - integer containing number of milliseconds, controls two timeouts.
+  - **Read timeout**: Time to wait for a server to send response headers (and start the response body) before aborting the request.
+  - **Connection timeout**: Sets the socket to timeout after `timeout` milliseconds of inactivity. Note that increasing the timeout beyond the OS-wide TCP connection timeout will not have any effect ([the default in Linux can be anywhere from 20-120 seconds][linux-timeout])
 
 [linux-timeout]: http://www.sekuda.com/overriding_the_default_linux_kernel_20_second_tcp_socket_connect_timeout
 
diff --git a/lib/getProxyFromURI.js b/lib/getProxyFromURI.js
index 4633ba5f6..0b9b18e5a 100644
--- a/lib/getProxyFromURI.js
+++ b/lib/getProxyFromURI.js
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function uriInNoProxy (uri, noProxy) {
 function getProxyFromURI (uri) {
   // Decide the proper request proxy to use based on the request URI object and the
   // environmental variables (NO_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, etc.)
-  // respect NO_PROXY environment variables (see: http://lynx.isc.org/current/breakout/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html)
+  // respect NO_PROXY environment variables (see: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.7/breakout/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html)
 
   var noProxy = process.env.NO_PROXY || process.env.no_proxy || ''