diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e850cc287..0d2ba55b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 ### Changed
 * Optimize select with known bucket_id (#234).
+* Deprecate manual sharding schema reload (#212).
 
 ### Fixed
 * Fix processing storage error for tuple-merger implementation of
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7097b53a5..4f14ec503 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -117,26 +117,11 @@ Table below describe what operations supports custom sharding key:
 
 Current limitations for using custom sharding key:
 
-- It's not possible to update sharding keys automatically when schema is
-  updated on storages, see
-  [#212](https://github.com/tarantool/crud/issues/212). However it is possible
-  to do it manually with `require('crud.common.sharding_key').update_cache()`
-  (this function updates both caches: sharding key cache and sharding function
-  cache, but returned value is sharding key from cache).
 - No support of JSON path for sharding key, see
   [#219](https://github.com/tarantool/crud/issues/219).
 - `primary_index_fieldno_map` is not cached, see
   [#243](https://github.com/tarantool/crud/issues/243).
 
-Current limitations for using custom sharding functions:
-
-- It's not possible to update sharding functions automatically when schema is
-  updated on storages, see
-  [#212](https://github.com/tarantool/crud/issues/212). However it is possible
-  to do it manually with `require('crud.common.sharding_func').update_cache()`
-  (this function updates both caches: sharding key cache and sharding function
-  cache, but returned value is sharding function from cache).
-
 ### Insert
 
 ```lua
diff --git a/crud/common/sharding_func.lua b/crud/common/sharding_func.lua
index a3aca4c19..501ca709f 100644
--- a/crud/common/sharding_func.lua
+++ b/crud/common/sharding_func.lua
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+local log = require('log')
+
 local sharding_metadata_module = require('crud.common.sharding.sharding_metadata')
 
 local sharding_func_cache = {}
@@ -9,6 +11,8 @@ local sharding_func_cache = {}
 -- This method provides similar behavior for
 -- sharding function cache.
 function sharding_func_cache.update_cache(space_name)
+    log.warn("require('crud.common.sharding_func').update_cache()" ..
+             "is deprecated and will be removed in future releases")
     return sharding_metadata_module.update_sharding_func_cache(space_name)
 end
 
diff --git a/crud/common/sharding_key.lua b/crud/common/sharding_key.lua
index 07c76f5db..30d75e7b1 100644
--- a/crud/common/sharding_key.lua
+++ b/crud/common/sharding_key.lua
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+local log = require('log')
+
 local sharding_metadata_module = require('crud.common.sharding.sharding_metadata')
 
 local sharding_key_cache = {}
@@ -7,6 +9,8 @@ local sharding_key_cache = {}
 -- for updating sharding key cache in their
 -- projects like `require('crud.common.sharding_key').update_cache()`
 function sharding_key_cache.update_cache(space_name)
+    log.warn("require('crud.common.sharding_key').update_cache()" ..
+             "is deprecated and will be removed in future releases")
     return sharding_metadata_module.update_sharding_key_cache(space_name)
 end