A few entities and attributes were deprecated in the 0.6.0 version of Qpid Dispatch Router. As we are coming up on a 1.0 release of the Router, we are going to be entirely removing these deprecated items from the router schema. Any Router code that helped support these deprecated items will also be removed. All example configs will be modified to use non-deprecated entities and attributes.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DISPATCH-824 outlines all the deprecated items that are going to be removed in the 1.0 release. Moving to the new 1.0 version of the router (which is not released yet) will require you to replace the deprecated attributes/entities with the newer attributes/entities in your router config file. For example, the linkRoutePattern entity will be replaced by linkRoute entity. Please look in DISPATCH-824 for what entities to replace your deprecated entities/attributes with. I am still working on DISPATCH-824 and it should land in master branch by the end of this week. After this fix lands, the router will display an error and fail to start if you are still using deprecated items. Please let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Thanks.