diff --git a/catalog.c b/catalog.c
index 22204676..dc22e277 100644
--- a/catalog.c
+++ b/catalog.c
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ xmlParseXMLCatalogFile(xmlCatalogPrefer prefer, const xmlChar *filename) {
 
     if (xmlDebugCatalogs)
 	xmlCatalogPrintDebug(
-		"%d Parsing catalog %s\n", xmlGetThreadId(), filename);
+		"Parsing catalog %s\n", filename);
 
     cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
     if ((cur != NULL) && (xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "catalog")) &&
diff --git a/doc/libxml2-api.xml b/doc/libxml2-api.xml
index 8a773ca2..2b89984f 100644
--- a/doc/libxml2-api.xml
+++ b/doc/libxml2-api.xml
@@ -417,10 +417,6 @@
     <file name='globals'>
      <summary>interface for all global variables of the library</summary>
      <description>Deprecated, don&apos;t use </description>
-     <exports symbol='xmlGlobalState' type='typedef'/>
-     <exports symbol='xmlGlobalStatePtr' type='typedef'/>
-     <exports symbol='xmlGetGlobalState' type='function'/>
-     <exports symbol='xmlInitializeGlobalState' type='function'/>
     </file>
     <file name='hash'>
      <summary>Chained hash tables</summary>
@@ -1289,9 +1285,7 @@
      <exports symbol='xmlCleanupThreads' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlFreeMutex' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlFreeRMutex' type='function'/>
-     <exports symbol='xmlGetThreadId' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlInitThreads' type='function'/>
-     <exports symbol='xmlIsMainThread' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlLockLibrary' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlMutexLock' type='function'/>
      <exports symbol='xmlMutexUnlock' type='function'/>
@@ -5867,8 +5861,6 @@ crash if you try to modify the tree)'/>
     <typedef name='xmlErrorLevel' file='xmlerror' type='enum'/>
     <typedef name='xmlErrorPtr' file='xmlerror' type='xmlError *'/>
     <typedef name='xmlFeature' file='parser' type='enum'/>
-    <struct name='xmlGlobalState' file='globals' type='struct _xmlGlobalState'/>
-    <typedef name='xmlGlobalStatePtr' file='globals' type='xmlGlobalState *'/>
     <struct name='xmlHashTable' file='hash' type='struct _xmlHashTable'/>
     <typedef name='xmlHashTablePtr' file='hash' type='xmlHashTable *'/>
     <struct name='xmlID' file='tree' type='struct _xmlID'>
@@ -9377,10 +9369,6 @@ crash if you try to modify the tree)'/>
       <info>DEPRECATED: See xmlSetExternalEntityLoader.  Get the default external entity resolver function for the application</info>
       <return type='xmlExternalEntityLoader' info='the xmlExternalEntityLoader function pointer'/>
     </function>
-    <function name='xmlGetGlobalState' file='globals' module='globals'>
-      <info>DEPRECATED</info>
-      <return type='xmlGlobalStatePtr' info='NULL.'/>
-    </function>
     <function name='xmlGetID' file='valid' module='valid'>
       <info>Search the attribute declaring the given ID</info>
       <return type='xmlAttrPtr' info='NULL if not found, otherwise the xmlAttrPtr defining the ID'/>
@@ -9460,10 +9448,6 @@ crash if you try to modify the tree)'/>
       <arg name='doc' type='xmlDocPtr' info='pointer to the document'/>
       <arg name='ID' type='const xmlChar *' info='the ID value'/>
     </function>
-    <function name='xmlGetThreadId' file='threads' module='threads'>
-      <info>DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.  xmlGetThreadId() find the current thread ID number Note that this is likely to be broken on some platforms using pthreads as the specification doesn&apos;t mandate pthread_t to be an integer type</info>
-      <return type='int' info='the current thread ID number'/>
-    </function>
     <function name='xmlGetUTF8Char' file='xmlstring' module='xmlstring'>
       <info>Read the first UTF8 character from @utf</info>
       <return type='int' info='the char value or -1 in case of error, and sets *len to the actual number of bytes consumed (0 in case of error)'/>
@@ -9818,11 +9802,6 @@ crash if you try to modify the tree)'/>
       <info>DEPRECATED: Alias for xmlInitParser.</info>
       <return type='int' info='0.'/>
     </function>
-    <function name='xmlInitializeGlobalState' file='globals' module='globals'>
-      <info>DEPRECATED: No-op.</info>
-      <return type='void'/>
-      <arg name='gs' type='xmlGlobalStatePtr' info='a pointer to a newly allocated global state'/>
-    </function>
     <functype name='xmlInputCloseCallback' file='xmlIO' module='xmlIO'>
       <info>Callback used in the I/O Input API to close the resource</info>
       <return type='int' info='0 or -1 in case of error'/>
@@ -9903,10 +9882,6 @@ crash if you try to modify the tree)'/>
       <return type='int' info='0 if not, non-zero otherwise'/>
       <arg name='c' type='int' info='an unicode character (int)'/>
     </function>
-    <function name='xmlIsMainThread' file='threads' module='globals'>
-      <info>DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.  Check whether the current thread is the main thread.</info>
-      <return type='int' info='1 if the current thread is the main thread, 0 otherwise'/>
-    </function>
     <function name='xmlIsMixedElement' file='valid' module='valid'>
       <info>Search in the DtDs whether an element accept Mixed content (or ANY) basically if it is supposed to accept text childs</info>
       <return type='int' info='0 if no, 1 if yes, and -1 if no element description is available'/>
diff --git a/globals.c b/globals.c
index f230653a..2a163368 100644
--- a/globals.c
+++ b/globals.c
@@ -15,14 +15,13 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #define XML_GLOBALS_NO_REDEFINITION
-#include <libxml/globals.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlerror.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlmemory.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlIO.h>
 #include <libxml/parser.h>
 #include <libxml/threads.h>
 #include <libxml/tree.h>
-#include <libxml/SAX.h>
+#include <libxml/xmlsave.h>
 #include <libxml/SAX2.h>
 
 #include "private/dict.h"
@@ -122,6 +121,9 @@ struct _xmlGlobalState {
     xmlOutputBufferCreateFilenameFunc outputBufferCreateFilenameValue;
 };
 
+typedef struct _xmlGlobalState xmlGlobalState;
+typedef xmlGlobalState *xmlGlobalStatePtr;
+
 #ifdef LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED
 
 /*
@@ -482,44 +484,6 @@ void xmlCleanupGlobalsInternal(void) {
     xmlCleanupMutex(&xmlThrDefMutex);
 }
 
-/**
- * xmlInitializeGlobalState:
- * @gs: a pointer to a newly allocated global state
- *
- * DEPRECATED: No-op.
- */
-void
-xmlInitializeGlobalState(xmlGlobalStatePtr gs ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
-{
-}
-
-/**
- * xmlGetGlobalState:
- *
- * DEPRECATED
- *
- * Returns NULL.
- */
-xmlGlobalStatePtr
-xmlGetGlobalState(void)
-{
-    return(NULL);
-}
-
-/**
- * xmlIsMainThread:
- *
- * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
- *
- * Check whether the current thread is the main thread.
- *
- * Returns 1 if the current thread is the main thread, 0 otherwise
- */
-int
-xmlIsMainThread(void) {
-    return(0);
-}
-
 static void
 xmlInitGlobalState(xmlGlobalStatePtr gs) {
     gs->localRngState[0] = xmlGlobalRandom();
diff --git a/include/libxml/globals.h b/include/libxml/globals.h
index 92f41312..a5db8026 100644
--- a/include/libxml/globals.h
+++ b/include/libxml/globals.h
@@ -22,20 +22,4 @@
 #include <libxml/xmlsave.h>
 #include <libxml/threads.h>
 
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif
-
-typedef struct _xmlGlobalState xmlGlobalState;
-typedef xmlGlobalState *xmlGlobalStatePtr;
-
-XML_DEPRECATED XMLPUBFUN void
-xmlInitializeGlobalState(xmlGlobalStatePtr gs);
-XML_DEPRECATED XMLPUBFUN
-xmlGlobalStatePtr xmlGetGlobalState(void);
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif
-
 #endif /* __XML_GLOBALS_H */
diff --git a/include/libxml/threads.h b/include/libxml/threads.h
index 8f4b6e17..ec2b16b1 100644
--- a/include/libxml/threads.h
+++ b/include/libxml/threads.h
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ XMLPUBFUN void
 XMLPUBFUN void
 			xmlUnlockLibrary(void);
 XML_DEPRECATED
-XMLPUBFUN int
-			xmlGetThreadId	(void);
-XML_DEPRECATED
-XMLPUBFUN int
-			xmlIsMainThread	(void);
-XML_DEPRECATED
 XMLPUBFUN void
 			xmlCleanupThreads(void);
 
diff --git a/python/libxml_wrap.h b/python/libxml_wrap.h
index a949b2b5..0aaddc09 100644
--- a/python/libxml_wrap.h
+++ b/python/libxml_wrap.h
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 #include <libxml/xmlregexp.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlautomata.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlreader.h>
-#include <libxml/globals.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlsave.h>
 #ifdef LIBXML_RELAXNG_ENABLED
 #include <libxml/relaxng.h>
diff --git a/threads.c b/threads.c
index 96710726..b36b31f2 100644
--- a/threads.c
+++ b/threads.c
@@ -301,35 +301,6 @@ xmlRMutexUnlock(xmlRMutexPtr tok ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
  *									*
  ************************************************************************/
 
-/**
- * xmlGetThreadId:
- *
- * DEPRECATED: Internal function, do not use.
- *
- * xmlGetThreadId() find the current thread ID number
- * Note that this is likely to be broken on some platforms using pthreads
- * as the specification doesn't mandate pthread_t to be an integer type
- *
- * Returns the current thread ID number
- */
-int
-xmlGetThreadId(void)
-{
-#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_THREADS
-    pthread_t id;
-    int ret;
-
-    id = pthread_self();
-    /* horrible but preserves compat, see warning above */
-    memcpy(&ret, &id, sizeof(ret));
-    return (ret);
-#elif defined HAVE_WIN32_THREADS
-    return GetCurrentThreadId();
-#else
-    return ((int) 0);
-#endif
-}
-
 /**
  * xmlLockLibrary:
  *