Follow-up to issue #13633.

Lib/html/parser.py still has:

if convert_charrefs is _default_sentinel:
    convert_charrefs = False  # default
    warnings.warn("The value of convert_charrefs will become True in "
                  "3.5. You are encouraged to set the value explicitly.",
                  DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)

Here's a patch to set the default "convert_charrefs" value to True (with documentation and whatsnew updates).

New changeset 4425024f2e01 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#21047: set the default value for the *convert_charrefs* argument of HTMLParser to True.  Patch by Berker Peksag.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4425024f2e01

New changeset 5b95f3fdcc0b by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#15114, #21047: update whatsnew in Python 3.5.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5b95f3fdcc0b

FYI, this breaks one of my programs. I find it now because it only threw errors in rare cases, and I've never seen the deprecated warning because I don't check the logs unless something goes wrong.

DeprecationWarnings are silenced by default.  You can enable them by using the -W Python flag.
They are also enabled while running tests with unittest, so you should have seen them there.