diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 5f1f995a0fe..3ba35a8620a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -1081,6 +1081,7 @@ Deprecated
   * :mod:`sunau`
   * :mod:`telnetlib`
   * :mod:`uu`
+  * :mod:`xdrlib`
 
   (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`47061` and Victor Stinner in
   :gh:`68966`.)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xdrlib.py b/Lib/test/test_xdrlib.py
index 3df5f264ced..226b70ae87b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xdrlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xdrlib.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import unittest
+from test.support import warnings_helper
+
+xdrlib = warnings_helper.import_deprecated("xdrlib")
 
-import xdrlib
 
 class XDRTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/Lib/xdrlib.py b/Lib/xdrlib.py
index d6e1aeb5272..b56ffa59b73 100644
--- a/Lib/xdrlib.py
+++ b/Lib/xdrlib.py
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 import struct
 from io import BytesIO
 from functools import wraps
+import warnings
+
+warnings._deprecated(__name__, remove=(3, 13))
 
 __all__ = ["Error", "Packer", "Unpacker", "ConversionError"]
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-21-21-06-54.gh-issue-91217.2cVma_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-21-21-06-54.gh-issue-91217.2cVma_.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..14f2c4d0649
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-04-21-21-06-54.gh-issue-91217.2cVma_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Deprecate the xdrlib module.