diff --git a/core/strings/strings.odin b/core/strings/strings.odin
index 49f15303b..b6af8dc53 100644
--- a/core/strings/strings.odin
+++ b/core/strings/strings.odin
@@ -4,41 +4,20 @@ import "core:mem"
 import "core:unicode"
 import "core:unicode/utf8"
 
-clone :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator) -> string {
-	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator);
+clone :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator, loc := #caller_location) -> string {
+	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator, loc);
 	copy(c, s);
 	c[len(s)] = 0;
 	return string(c[:len(s)]);
 }
 
-clone_to_cstring :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator) -> cstring {
-	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator);
+clone_to_cstring :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator, loc := #caller_location) -> cstring {
+	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator, loc);
 	copy(c, s);
 	c[len(s)] = 0;
 	return cstring(&c[0]);
 }
 
-@(deprecated="Please use 'strings.clone'")
-new_string :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator) -> string {
-	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator);
-	copy(c, s);
-	c[len(s)] = 0;
-	return string(c[:len(s)]);
-}
-
-@(deprecated="Please use 'strings.clone_to_cstring'")
-new_cstring :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator) -> cstring {
-	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator);
-	copy(c, s);
-	c[len(s)] = 0;
-	return cstring(&c[0]);
-}
-
-@(deprecated="Please use a standard cast for cstring to string")
-to_odin_string :: proc(str: cstring) -> string {
-	return string(str);
-}
-
 string_from_ptr :: proc(ptr: ^byte, len: int) -> string {
 	return transmute(string)mem.Raw_String{ptr, len};
 }