[IO-630] Deprecate
`org.apache.commons.io.output.NullOutputStream.NullOutputStream()` in
favor of `org.apache.commons.io.output.NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM`.
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 82a75b1..ac8815f 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@
       <action issue="IO-628" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Allon Mureinik">
         Migration to JUnit Jupiter #97.
       </action>
+      <action issue="IO-630" dev="ggregory" type="update" due-to="Gary Gregory">
+        Deprecate `org.apache.commons.io.output.NullOutputStream.NullOutputStream()` in favor of `org.apache.commons.io.output.NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM`.
+      </action>
     </release>
 
     <release version="2.6" date="2017-10-15" description="Java 7 required, Java 9 supported.">
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java
index 9792a24..def8e93 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ public static Checksum checksum(final File file, final Checksum checksum) throws
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Checksums can't be computed on directories");
         }
         try (InputStream in = new CheckedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file), checksum)) {
-            IOUtils.copy(in, new NullOutputStream());
+            IOUtils.copy(in, NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM);
         }
         return checksum;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStream.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStream.java
index def39ba..89f36f7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStream.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStream.java
@@ -29,6 +29,18 @@
 public class NullOutputStream extends OutputStream {
 
     /**
+     * Deprecated in favor of {@link #NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM}. 
+     * 
+     * TODO: Will be private in 3.0.
+     * 
+     * @deprecated Use {@link #NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM}.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public NullOutputStream() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+    /**
      * A singleton.
      */
     public static final NullOutputStream NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM = new NullOutputStream();
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullPrintStream.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullPrintStream.java
index 73d1334..8942a5b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullPrintStream.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullPrintStream.java
@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ public class NullPrintStream extends PrintStream {
     /**
      * Constructs an instance.
      */
-    @SuppressWarnings("resource")
     public NullPrintStream() {
-        super(new NullOutputStream());
+        super(NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM);
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtilsCopyTestCase.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtilsCopyTestCase.java
index 755e93c..29cf3de 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtilsCopyTestCase.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtilsCopyTestCase.java
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public void testCopy_inputStreamToOutputStream() throws Exception {
     public void testCopy_inputStreamToOutputStream_IO84() throws Exception {
         final long size = (long)Integer.MAX_VALUE + (long)1;
         final InputStream  in  = new NullInputStream(size);
-        final OutputStream out = new NullOutputStream();
+        final OutputStream out = NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM;
 
         // Test copy() method
         assertEquals(-1, IOUtils.copy(in, out));
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/CountingInputStreamTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/CountingInputStreamTest.java
index 31a4072..c47e3e9 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/CountingInputStreamTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/CountingInputStreamTest.java
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public void testLargeFiles_IO84() throws Exception {
         final long size = (long)Integer.MAX_VALUE + (long)1;
         final NullInputStream mock    = new NullInputStream(size);
         final CountingInputStream cis = new CountingInputStream(mock);
-        final OutputStream out        = new NullOutputStream();
+        final OutputStream out        = NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM;
 
         // Test integer methods
         IOUtils.copyLarge(cis, out);
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/CountingOutputStreamTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/CountingOutputStreamTest.java
index b66c046..6885bf9 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/CountingOutputStreamTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/CountingOutputStreamTest.java
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public void testLargeFiles_IO84() throws Exception {
         final long size = (long)Integer.MAX_VALUE + (long)1;
 
         final NullInputStream mock     = new NullInputStream(size);
-        final OutputStream nos         = new NullOutputStream();
+        final OutputStream nos         = NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM;
         final CountingOutputStream cos = new CountingOutputStream(nos);
 
         // Test integer methods
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStreamTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStreamTest.java
index 868bfe6..fc3a1a6 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStreamTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStreamTest.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ private void process(final NullOutputStream nos) throws IOException {
 
     @Test
     public void testNewInstance() throws IOException {
-        try (final NullOutputStream nos = new NullOutputStream()) {
+        try (final NullOutputStream nos = NullOutputStream.NULL_OUTPUT_STREAM) {
             process(nos);
         }
     }