diff --git a/mercurial/cmdutil.py b/mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@
     labels = ['log.changeset', 'changeset.%s' % ctx.phasestr()]
     if ctx.obsolete():
         labels.append('changeset.obsolete')
-    if ctx.troubled():
+    if ctx.isunstable():
         labels.append('changeset.troubled')
         for instability in ctx.instabilities():
             labels.append('trouble.%s' % instability)
@@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@
         self.ui.write(_("date:        %s\n") % date,
                       label='log.date')
 
-        if ctx.troubled():
+        if ctx.isunstable():
             # i18n: column positioning for "hg log"
             instabilities = ctx.instabilities()
             self.ui.write(_("instability: %s\n") % ', '.join(instabilities),
diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -4849,7 +4849,7 @@
                 ui.write(_(' (no revision checked out)'))
         if p.obsolete():
             ui.write(_(' (obsolete)'))
-        if p.troubled():
+        if p.isunstable():
             instabilities = (ui.label(instability, 'trouble.%s' % instability)
                              for instability in p.instabilities())
             ui.write(' ('
diff --git a/mercurial/context.py b/mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py
+++ b/mercurial/context.py
@@ -240,6 +240,12 @@
         return self.rev() in obsmod.getrevs(self._repo, 'divergent')
 
     def troubled(self):
+        msg = ("'context.troubled' is deprecated, "
+               "use 'context.isunstable'")
+        self._repo.ui.deprecwarn(msg, '4.4')
+        return self.unstable()
+
+    def isunstable(self):
         """True if the changeset is either unstable, bumped or divergent"""
         return self.orphan() or self.phasedivergent() or self.contentdivergent()
 
diff --git a/mercurial/exchange.py b/mercurial/exchange.py
--- a/mercurial/exchange.py
+++ b/mercurial/exchange.py
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
                 ctx = unfi[node]
                 if ctx.obsolete():
                     raise error.Abort(mso % ctx)
-                elif ctx.troubled():
+                elif ctx.isunstable():
                     # TODO print more than one instability in the abort
                     # message
                     raise error.Abort(mst[ctx.instabilities()[0]] % ctx)