diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1b58053..672237d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ CHANGELOG
  * BC: The Session component implements HttpServerInterface instead of WsServerInterface
  * BC: PHP 5.3 no longer supported
  * BC: Update to newer version of react/socket dependency
+ * BC: WAMP topics reduced to 0 subscriptions are deleted, new subs to same name will result in new Topic instance
  * Significant performance enhancements
 
 * 0.3.6 (2017-01-06)
diff --git a/src/Ratchet/Wamp/Topic.php b/src/Ratchet/Wamp/Topic.php
index 7bde5e0..bca8f67 100644
--- a/src/Ratchet/Wamp/Topic.php
+++ b/src/Ratchet/Wamp/Topic.php
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@ use Ratchet\ConnectionInterface;
  * A topic/channel containing connections that have subscribed to it
  */
 class Topic implements \IteratorAggregate, \Countable {
-    /**
-     * If true the TopicManager will destroy this object if it's ever empty of connections
-     * @deprecated in v0.4
-     * @type bool
-     */
-    public $autoDelete = false;
-
     private $id;
 
     private $subscribers;
diff --git a/src/Ratchet/Wamp/TopicManager.php b/src/Ratchet/Wamp/TopicManager.php
index 318b986..dd06ada 100644
--- a/src/Ratchet/Wamp/TopicManager.php
+++ b/src/Ratchet/Wamp/TopicManager.php
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class TopicManager implements WsServerInterface, WampServerInterface {
 
         $this->topicLookup[$topic->getId()]->remove($conn);
 
-        if ($topic->autoDelete && 0 === $topic->count()) {
+        if (0 === $topic->count()) {
             unset($this->topicLookup[$topic->getId()]);
         }
     }
diff --git a/tests/unit/Wamp/TopicManagerTest.php b/tests/unit/Wamp/TopicManagerTest.php
index 8482877..b21b6bc 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Wamp/TopicManagerTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Wamp/TopicManagerTest.php
@@ -185,21 +185,18 @@ class TopicManagerTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
     }
 
     public static function topicConnExpectationProvider() {
-        return array(
-            array(true, 'onClose', 0)
-          , array(true, 'onUnsubscribe', 0)
-          , array(false, 'onClose', 1)
-          , array(false, 'onUnsubscribe', 1)
-        );
+        return [
+            [ 'onClose', 0]
+          , ['onUnsubscribe', 0]
+        ];
     }
 
     /**
      * @dataProvider topicConnExpectationProvider
      */
-    public function testTopicRetentionFromLeavingConnections($autoDelete, $methodCall, $expectation) {
+    public function testTopicRetentionFromLeavingConnections($methodCall, $expectation) {
         $topicName = 'checkTopic';
         list($topic, $attribute) = $this->topicProvider($topicName);
-        $topic->autoDelete = $autoDelete;
 
         $this->mngr->onSubscribe($this->conn, $topicName);
         call_user_func_array(array($this->mngr, $methodCall), array($this->conn, $topicName));