Is the zone-based firewall scheduled to be deprecated in VyOS?

Is the zone-based firewall scheduled to be deprecated in VyOS? The following page states “zone based firewall is no longer supported”.

https://docs.vyos.io/en/latest/configexamples/zone-policy.html#examples-zone-policy

Or has the configuration structure simply be changed? At the moment, it appears that zone-based firewalls are still available in the latest release.

https://docs.vyos.io/en/latest/configuration/firewall/index.html#zone-based-firewall

If zone-based firewalls are an outdated feature that will be discontinued in the future, what is the modean alternative?

have you read this blog post

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It was removed at some time but fortunately added again. It is not deprecated.
After that, some bugs were identified and confirmed fixed.
See also https://forum.vyos.io/t/the-decision-to-remove-zone-based-firewall-syntax-in-vyos-1-4-rolling-202308040557 and the links therein.

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@tomcat667 @marc_s
Thank you for the useful information. I had overlooked those articles, so I appreciate you pointing them out. My questions have been completely resolved.

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