diff --git a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryClient.java b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryClient.java
index 608cf4bbb4..2487ad062c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryClient.java
+++ b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryClient.java
@@ -1083,6 +1083,10 @@ public void strlen(final byte[] key) {
     sendCommand(STRLEN, key);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @deprecated This will be removed in next major release.
+   */
+  @Deprecated
   public void sync() {
     sendCommand(SYNC);
   }
diff --git a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryJedis.java b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryJedis.java
index 2e3046098f..6eb4cedc80 100644
--- a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryJedis.java
+++ b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/BinaryJedis.java
@@ -3708,6 +3708,10 @@ public Long strlen(final byte[] key) {
     return client.getIntegerReply();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @deprecated This will be removed in next major release.
+   */
+  @Deprecated
   public void sync() {
     client.sync();
   }
diff --git a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/Protocol.java b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/Protocol.java
index c272bc8661..d5b6196e4d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/Protocol.java
+++ b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/Protocol.java
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ public static enum Command implements ProtocolCommand {
     PUNSUBSCRIBE, PUBSUB, ZCOUNT, ZRANGEBYSCORE, ZREVRANGEBYSCORE, ZREMRANGEBYRANK,
     ZREMRANGEBYSCORE, ZUNION, ZUNIONSTORE, ZINTER, ZINTERSTORE, ZLEXCOUNT, ZRANGEBYLEX, ZREVRANGEBYLEX,
     ZREMRANGEBYLEX, SAVE, BGSAVE, BGREWRITEAOF, LASTSAVE, SHUTDOWN, INFO, MONITOR, SLAVEOF, CONFIG,
-    STRLEN, SYNC, LPUSHX, PERSIST, RPUSHX, ECHO, LINSERT, DEBUG, BRPOPLPUSH, SETBIT, GETBIT,
+    STRLEN, @Deprecated SYNC, LPUSHX, PERSIST, RPUSHX, ECHO, LINSERT, DEBUG, BRPOPLPUSH, SETBIT, GETBIT,
     BITPOS, SETRANGE, GETRANGE, EVAL, EVALSHA, SCRIPT, SLOWLOG, OBJECT, BITCOUNT, BITOP, SENTINEL,
     DUMP, RESTORE, PEXPIRE, PEXPIREAT, PTTL, INCRBYFLOAT, PSETEX, CLIENT, TIME, MIGRATE,
     HINCRBYFLOAT, SCAN, HSCAN, SSCAN, ZSCAN, WAIT, CLUSTER, ASKING, PFADD, PFCOUNT, PFMERGE,