diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index ad1d3788..d18c1067 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 - [FIXED] Fixed the documentation for `bookmarks`.
 - [FIXED] Also exit `follow_replication` for `failed` state.
 - [FIXED] Fixed result paging for grouped view queries.
+- [FIXED] Replaced a depricated method `method_whitelist` with `allowed_methods`
 
 # 2.14.0 (2020-08-17)
 
diff --git a/src/cloudant/adapters.py b/src/cloudant/adapters.py
index b5bd6964..6ed1625a 100644
--- a/src/cloudant/adapters.py
+++ b/src/cloudant/adapters.py
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ def __init__(self, retries=3, initialBackoff=0.25):
             connect=0,
             read=0,
             # Allow retries for all the CouchDB HTTP method types
-            method_whitelist=frozenset(['GET', 'HEAD', 'PUT', 'POST',
-                                        'DELETE', 'COPY']),
+            allowed_methods=frozenset(['GET', 'HEAD', 'PUT', 'POST',
+                                       'DELETE', 'COPY']),
             # Only retry for a 429 too many requests status code
             status_forcelist=[429],
             # Configure the start value of the doubling backoff