Configuration 'provided' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'compileOnly'

[chhandsome]

// provided 'de.robv.android.xposed:api:82'
// provided 'de.robv.android.xposed:api:82:sources'
provided files('libs/XposedBridgeApi-54.jar')
setting like this, the androidstudio show the warning ,and the log of xpose installer has show as follow:
cannot load module:
The Xposed API classes are compiled into the module' apk

[georgedorn]

WARNING: Configuration 'provided' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'compileOnly'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html
Affected Modules: app

Is it safe to replace provided with compileOnly? What's the difference?