The javadoc deprecates it, but there's no @Deprecated annotation on the method . Found while compiling with Java 17 which warns about this:

/Users/awilkinson/dev/spring-projects/spring-boot/main/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/actuate/autoconfigure/endpoint/expose/IncludeExcludeEndpointFilter.java:109: warning: [dep-ann] deprecated item is not annotated with @Deprecated
        public IncludeExcludeEndpointFilter(Class<E> endpointType, Collection<String> include, Collection<String> exclude,