Solved by albanD in post #2 
              
              
                Hi, 
Yes they are. But because Variable what so widely used by the users, we are leaving it for now. 
It is only a no-op that gives you a Tensor right now. 
But for deprecation: 

We just removed old style autograd.Function code: they will be actual errors in 1.5
We are removing .data internally to …