diff --git a/Example/Example/ViewController.swift b/Example/Example/ViewController.swift
index e12a4090..49c0c2e0 100644
--- a/Example/Example/ViewController.swift
+++ b/Example/Example/ViewController.swift
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import SwiftyJSON
 
 class ViewController: UITableViewController {
 
-    var json: JSON = JSON.null
+    var json: JSON = .null
     
     // MARK: - Table view data source
 
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class ViewController: UITableViewController {
         
         if let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
             let row = (indexPath as NSIndexPath).row
-            var nextJson: JSON = JSON.null
+            var nextJson: JSON = .null
             switch self.json.type {
             case .array:
                 nextJson = self.json[row]
diff --git a/Source/SwiftyJSON.swift b/Source/SwiftyJSON.swift
index 5d10d44b..4a748a0c 100644
--- a/Source/SwiftyJSON.swift
+++ b/Source/SwiftyJSON.swift
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ extension JSON: Swift.ExpressibleByArrayLiteral {
 
 extension JSON: Swift.ExpressibleByNilLiteral {
 
-    @available(*, deprecated, message: "use JSON.null instead. Will be removed in future versions")
+    @available(*, deprecated, message: "https://git.io/vPlHM Use JSON.null if you want to create or compare null value. If you need optional JSON variable use Optional.none instead of nil")
     public init(nilLiteral: ()) {
         self.init(NSNull() as Any)
     }
diff --git a/Tests/BaseTests.swift b/Tests/BaseTests.swift
index 0ec670ed..9a53eed8 100644
--- a/Tests/BaseTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/BaseTests.swift
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class BaseTests: XCTestCase {
     func testNullJSON() {
         XCTAssertEqual(JSON(NSNull()).debugDescription,"null")
         
-        let json:JSON = JSON.null
+        let json:JSON = .null
         XCTAssertEqual(json.debugDescription,"null")
         XCTAssertNil(json.error)
         let json1:JSON = JSON(NSNull())
diff --git a/Tests/ComparableTests.swift b/Tests/ComparableTests.swift
index c027b07a..3194e239 100644
--- a/Tests/ComparableTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/ComparableTests.swift
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ class ComparableTests: XCTestCase {
     }
 
     func testNil() {
-        let jsonL1:JSON = JSON.null
+        let jsonL1:JSON = .null
         let jsonR1:JSON = JSON(NSNull())
         XCTAssertEqual(jsonL1, jsonR1)
         XCTAssertTrue(jsonL1 != "123")
diff --git a/Tests/LiteralConvertibleTests.swift b/Tests/LiteralConvertibleTests.swift
index c55f2516..765c7c3e 100644
--- a/Tests/LiteralConvertibleTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/LiteralConvertibleTests.swift
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class LiteralConvertibleTests: XCTestCase {
     }
     
     func testNil() {
-        let jsonNil_1:JSON = JSON.null
+        let jsonNil_1:JSON = .null
         XCTAssert(jsonNil_1 == JSON.null)
         let jsonNil_2:JSON = JSON(NSNull.self)
         XCTAssert(jsonNil_2 != JSON.null)
diff --git a/Tests/PrintableTests.swift b/Tests/PrintableTests.swift
index 5672c13a..708250b7 100644
--- a/Tests/PrintableTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/PrintableTests.swift
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class PrintableTests: XCTestCase {
     }
     
     func testNil() {
-        let jsonNil_1:JSON = JSON.null
+        let jsonNil_1:JSON = .null
         XCTAssertEqual(jsonNil_1.description, "null")
         XCTAssertEqual(jsonNil_1.debugDescription, "null")
         let jsonNil_2:JSON = JSON(NSNull())
diff --git a/Tests/RawTests.swift b/Tests/RawTests.swift
index a31b84ef..755f326d 100644
--- a/Tests/RawTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/RawTests.swift
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class RawTests: XCTestCase {
     }
     
     func testNull() {
-        let json:JSON = JSON.null
+        let json:JSON = .null
         print(json.rawString())
         XCTAssertTrue(json.rawString() == "null")
     }