diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/c_deprecatd.yml b/changelogs/fragments/c_deprecatd.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bda3d275956
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/c_deprecatd.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - constants, internal _deprecated function always requires version.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py b/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
index b9a3e90e9ab..d2952bbe017 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/scripts/ansible_connection_cli_stub.py
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ class ConnectionProcess(object):
 
     def run(self):
         try:
+            log_messages = self.connection.get_option('persistent_log_messages')
             while not self.connection._conn_closed:
                 signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.connect_timeout)
                 signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.handler)
@@ -133,7 +134,6 @@ class ConnectionProcess(object):
                     data = recv_data(s)
                     if not data:
                         break
-                    log_messages = self.connection.get_option('persistent_log_messages')
 
                     if log_messages:
                         display.display("jsonrpc request: %s" % data, log_only=True)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/constants.py b/lib/ansible/constants.py
index 11b0583363d..417eec0614e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/constants.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/constants.py
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
 from ansible.release import __version__
 from ansible.utils.fqcn import add_internal_fqcns
 
-# 4 versions above current
-default_deprecated = to_text(float('.'.join(__version__.split('.')[0:2])) + 0.04)
-
 
 def _warning(msg):
     ''' display is not guaranteed here, nor it being the full class, but try anyways, fallback to sys.stderr.write '''
@@ -33,7 +30,7 @@ def _warning(msg):
         sys.stderr.write(' [WARNING] %s\n' % (msg))
 
 
-def _deprecated(msg, version=default_deprecated):
+def _deprecated(msg, version):
     ''' display is not guaranteed here, nor it being the full class, but try anyways, fallback to sys.stderr.write '''
     try:
         from ansible.utils.display import Display
@@ -55,11 +52,11 @@ class _DeprecatedSequenceConstant(Sequence):
         self._version = version
 
     def __len__(self):
-        _deprecated(self._msg, version=self._version)
+        _deprecated(self._msg, self._version)
         return len(self._value)
 
     def __getitem__(self, y):
-        _deprecated(self._msg, version=self._version)
+        _deprecated(self._msg, self._version)
         return self._value[y]