diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5e92377..23c6186 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 + Add RNG/random selection overloads such as `luck()`, `rng_overload()`
 + Add 7 new throwable exceptions
 + Add color utilities: `chalk` module
-+ Add `.terminal` module, to ease TUI development.
-+ `calendar`: add `parse_time()`.
-+ Add validator `not_greater_than()`.
++ Add `.terminal` module, to ease TUI development
++ `calendar`: add `parse_time()`
++ Add validator `not_greater_than()`
++ Add `@future()` decorator
 
 ## 0.6.1
 
diff --git a/src/suou/__init__.py b/src/suou/__init__.py
index a33a879..7abb543 100644
--- a/src/suou/__init__.py
+++ b/src/suou/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from .calendar import want_datetime, want_isodate, want_timestamp, age_and_days
 from .configparse import MissingConfigError, MissingConfigWarning, ConfigOptions, ConfigParserConfigSource, ConfigSource, DictConfigSource, ConfigValue, EnvConfigSource
 from .collections import TimedDict
 from .dei import dei_args
-from .functools import deprecated, not_implemented, timed_cache, none_pass, alru_cache
+from .functools import deprecated, not_implemented, timed_cache, none_pass, alru_cache, future
 from .classtools import Wanted, Incomplete
 from .itertools import makelist, kwargs_prefix, ltuple, rtuple, additem, addattr
 from .i18n import I18n, JsonI18n, TomlI18n
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ __all__ = (
     'StringCase', 'TimedDict', 'TomlI18n', 'UserSigner', 'Wanted', 'WantsContentType',
     'addattr', 'additem', 'age_and_days', 'alru_cache', 'b2048decode', 'b2048encode',
     'b32ldecode', 'b32lencode', 'b64encode', 'b64decode', 'cb32encode',
-    'cb32decode', 'chalk', 'count_ones', 'dei_args', 'deprecated', 'ilex', 'join_bits',
+    'cb32decode', 'chalk', 'count_ones', 'dei_args', 'deprecated',
+    'future', 'ilex', 'join_bits',
     'jsonencode', 'kwargs_prefix', 'lex', 'ltuple', 'makelist', 'mask_shift',
     'matches', 'mod_ceil', 'mod_floor', 'none_pass', 'not_implemented',
     'redact_url_password', 'rtuple', 'split_bits', 'ssv_list', 'symbol_table',
diff --git a/src/suou/functools.py b/src/suou/functools.py
index b702fe7..b841a00 100644
--- a/src/suou/functools.py
+++ b/src/suou/functools.py
@@ -28,37 +28,43 @@ from suou.itertools import hashed_list
 _T = TypeVar('_T')
 _U = TypeVar('_U')
 
+
+def _suou_deprecated(message: str, /, *, category=DeprecationWarning, stacklevel: int = 1) -> Callable[[Callable[_T, _U]], Callable[_T, _U]]:
+    """
+    Backport of PEP 702 for Python <=3.12.
+    The stack_level stuff is used by warnings.warn() btw
+    """
+    def decorator(func: Callable[_T, _U]) -> Callable[_T, _U]:
+        @wraps(func)
+        def wrapper(*a, **ka):
+            if category is not None:
+                warnings.warn(message, category, stacklevel=stacklevel)
+            return func(*a, **ka)
+        func.__deprecated__ = True
+        wrapper.__deprecated__ = True
+        return wrapper
+    return decorator
+
 try:
     from warnings import deprecated
 except ImportError:
     # Python <=3.12 does not implement warnings.deprecated
-    def deprecated(message: str, /, *, category=DeprecationWarning, stacklevel: int = 1) -> Callable[[Callable[_T, _U]], Callable[_T, _U]]:
-        """
-        Backport of PEP 702 for Python <=3.12.
-        The stack_level stuff is not reimplemented on purpose because
-        too obscure for the average programmer.
-        """
-        def decorator(func: Callable[_T, _U]) -> Callable[_T, _U]:
-            @wraps(func)
-            def wrapper(*a, **ka):
-                if category is not None:
-                    warnings.warn(message, category, stacklevel=stacklevel)
-                return func(*a, **ka)
-            func.__deprecated__ = True
-            wrapper.__deprecated__ = True
-            return wrapper
-        return decorator
+    deprecated = _suou_deprecated
 
 ## this syntactic sugar for deprecated() is ... deprecated, which is ironic.
 ## Needed move because VSCode seems to not sense deprecated_alias()es as deprecated.
 @deprecated('use deprecated(message)(func) instead')
-def deprecated_alias(func: Callable, /, message='use .{name}() instead', *, category=DeprecationWarning) -> Callable:
+def deprecated_alias(func: Callable[_T, _U], /, message='use .{name}() instead', *, category=DeprecationWarning) -> Callable[_T, _U]:
     """
     Syntactic sugar helper for renaming functions.
 
     DEPRECATED use deprecated(message)(func) instead
     """
-    return deprecated(message.format(name=func.__name__), category=category)(func)
+    @deprecated(message.format(name=func.__name__), category=category)
+    @wraps(func)
+    def deprecated_wrapper(*a, **k) -> _U:
+        return func(*a, **k)
+    return deprecated_wrapper
 
 def not_implemented(msg: Callable | str | None = None):
     """
@@ -74,6 +80,20 @@ def not_implemented(msg: Callable | str | None = None):
         return decorator(msg)
     return decorator
 
+def future(message: str | None = None):
+    """
+    Describes experimental or future API's introduced as bug fixes (including as backports)
+    but not yet intended for general use (mostly to keep semver consistent).
+
+    NEW 0.7.0
+    """
+    def decorator(func: Callable[_T, _U]) -> Callable[_T, _U]:
+        @wraps(func)
+        def wrapper(*a, **k) -> _U:
+            warnings.warn(message or f'{func.__name__}() is intended for a future release and not intended for use right now', FutureWarning)
+            return func(*a, **k)
+        return wrapper
+    return decorator
 
 def flat_args(args: Iterable, kwds: Mapping, typed,
              kwd_mark = (object(),),