diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
   <https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.19.3/>
 
 This release includes the following features and fixes:
+ - `signrawtransaction` RPC is now deprecated. The new RPCs 
+   `signrawtransactionwithkey` and `signrawtransactionwithwallet` should 
+   be used instead.
diff --git a/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp b/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp
--- a/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/rawtransaction.cpp
@@ -1084,7 +1084,8 @@
             "[{\"txid\":\"id\",\"vout\":n,\"scriptPubKey\":\"hex\","
             "\"redeemScript\":\"hex\"},...] [\"privatekey1\",...] sighashtype "
             ")\n"
-            "\nSign inputs for raw transaction (serialized, hex-encoded).\n"
+            "\nDEPRECATED.Sign inputs for raw transaction (serialized, "
+            "hex-encoded).\n"
             "The second optional argument (may be null) is an array of "
             "previous transaction outputs that\n"
             "this transaction depends on but may not yet be in the block "
@@ -1163,6 +1164,17 @@
             HelpExampleRpc("signrawtransaction", "\"myhex\""));
     }
 
+    if (!IsDeprecatedRPCEnabled(gArgs, "signrawtransaction")) {
+        throw JSONRPCError(
+            RPC_METHOD_DEPRECATED,
+            "signrawtransaction is deprecated and will be fully removed in "
+            "v0.20. "
+            "To use signrawtransaction in v0.19, restart bitcoind with "
+            "-deprecatedrpc=signrawtransaction.\n"
+            "Projects should transition to using signrawtransactionwithkey and "
+            "signrawtransactionwithwallet before upgrading to v0.20");
+    }
+
     RPCTypeCheck(
         request.params,
         {UniValue::VSTR, UniValue::VARR, UniValue::VARR, UniValue::VSTR}, true);
diff --git a/test/functional/rpc_signrawtransaction.py b/test/functional/rpc_signrawtransaction.py
--- a/test/functional/rpc_signrawtransaction.py
+++ b/test/functional/rpc_signrawtransaction.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     def set_test_params(self):
         self.setup_clean_chain = True
         self.num_nodes = 1
+        self.extra_args = [["-deprecatedrpc=signrawtransaction"]]
 
     def successful_signing_test(self):
         """Creates and signs a valid raw transaction with one input.