diff --git a/holoviews/plotting/mpl/renderer.py b/holoviews/plotting/mpl/renderer.py
index b74228176a..17e6eac797 100644
--- a/holoviews/plotting/mpl/renderer.py
+++ b/holoviews/plotting/mpl/renderer.py
@@ -243,7 +243,13 @@ def _compute_bbox(self, fig, kw):
     @classmethod
     @contextmanager
     def state(cls):
-        deprecated = ['text.latex.unicode', 'examples.directory']
+        deprecated = [
+            'text.latex.unicode',
+            'examples.directory',
+            'savefig.frameon', # deprecated in MPL 3.1, to be removed in 3.3
+            'verbose.level', # deprecated in MPL 3.1, to be removed in 3.3
+            'verbose.fileo', # deprecated in MPL 3.1, to be removed in 3.3
+        ]
         old_rcparams = {k: mpl.rcParams[k] for k in mpl.rcParams.keys()
                         if mpl_version < '3.0' or k not in deprecated}