diff --git a/include/crm/common/nvpair.h b/include/crm/common/nvpair.h
index c6f9336feb..46329d082a 100644
--- a/include/crm/common/nvpair.h
+++ b/include/crm/common/nvpair.h
@@ -1,86 +1,90 @@
 /*
  * Copyright 2004-2024 the Pacemaker project contributors
  *
  * The version control history for this file may have further details.
  *
  * This source code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
  * version 2.1 or later (LGPLv2.1+) WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
  */
 
 #ifndef PCMK__CRM_COMMON_NVPAIR__H
 #define PCMK__CRM_COMMON_NVPAIR__H
 
 #include <sys/time.h>     // struct timeval
 #include <glib.h>         // gpointer, gboolean, guint, GHashTable
 #include <libxml/tree.h>  // xmlNode
 #include <crm/crm.h>
 
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 /**
  * \file
  * \brief Functionality for manipulating name/value pairs
  * \ingroup core
  */
 
 typedef struct pcmk_nvpair_s {
     char *name;
     char *value;
 } pcmk_nvpair_t;
 
 GSList *pcmk_prepend_nvpair(GSList *nvpairs, const char *name, const char *value);
 void pcmk_free_nvpairs(GSList *nvpairs);
 
 xmlNode *crm_create_nvpair_xml(xmlNode *parent, const char *id,
                                const char *name, const char *value);
 void hash2field(gpointer key, gpointer value, gpointer user_data);
 void hash2metafield(gpointer key, gpointer value, gpointer user_data);
 void hash2smartfield(gpointer key, gpointer value, gpointer user_data);
 GHashTable *xml2list(const xmlNode *parent);
 
 const char *crm_xml_add(xmlNode *node, const char *name, const char *value);
 const char *crm_xml_add_int(xmlNode *node, const char *name, int value);
 const char *crm_xml_add_ll(xmlNode *node, const char *name, long long value);
 const char *crm_xml_add_ms(xmlNode *node, const char *name, guint ms);
 const char *crm_xml_add_timeval(xmlNode *xml, const char *name_sec,
                                 const char *name_usec,
                                 const struct timeval *value);
 
 const char *crm_element_value(const xmlNode *data, const char *name);
 int crm_element_value_int(const xmlNode *data, const char *name, int *dest);
 int crm_element_value_ll(const xmlNode *data, const char *name, long long *dest);
 int crm_element_value_ms(const xmlNode *data, const char *name, guint *dest);
 int crm_element_value_epoch(const xmlNode *xml, const char *name, time_t *dest);
 int crm_element_value_timeval(const xmlNode *data, const char *name_sec,
                               const char *name_usec, struct timeval *dest);
 char *crm_element_value_copy(const xmlNode *data, const char *name);
 
 char *crm_meta_name(const char *field);
 const char *crm_meta_value(GHashTable *hash, const char *field);
 
 /*!
  * \brief Copy an element from one XML object to another
  *
  * \param[in]     obj1     Source XML
  * \param[in,out] obj2     Destination XML
  * \param[in]     element  Name of element to copy
  *
  * \return Pointer to copied value (from source)
  */
 static inline const char *
 crm_copy_xml_element(const xmlNode *obj1, xmlNode *obj2, const char *element)
 {
     const char *value = crm_element_value(obj1, element);
 
     crm_xml_add(obj2, element, value);
     return value;
 }
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
 
+#if !defined(PCMK_ALLOW_DEPRECATED) || (PCMK_ALLOW_DEPRECATED == 1)
+#include <crm/common/nvpair_compat.h>
+#endif
+
 #endif // PCMK__CRM_COMMON_NVPAIR__H