diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 3f2a18050756fb05673721b264108a771f27d6b0..04d71245ca9f814afb732414d946d745c35cf0f1 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 			<action dev="ntd" type="add" issue="247">
 				Configuration can now be executed from command line.
 			</action>
+			<action dev="ntd" type="add">
+				Renamed AbstractCompositeStage to CompositeStage and made it non-abstract.
+			</action>
 		</release>
 		<release version="2.0" date="30.09.2015" description="Camellia Release">
 			<action dev="ntd" type="add" issue="93">
diff --git a/src/main/java/teetime/framework/AbstractCompositeStage.java b/src/main/java/teetime/framework/AbstractCompositeStage.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c63c6f0ab8e08b5f4dc068186a3bd6384b5e2ca4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/teetime/framework/AbstractCompositeStage.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package teetime.framework;
+
+/**
+ * Legacy class: was renamed to {@link CompositeStage}
+ *
+ * @author Nelson Tavares de Sousa
+ *
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public class AbstractCompositeStage extends CompositeStage {
+
+	protected AbstractCompositeStage() {
+		super();
+	}
+
+}