get_categories Deprecated Argument?

Hi there, I originally posted this on the ‘Themes and Templates’ forum, which was clearly the wrong place, and also managed to fall foul of the rules about posting code (will use pastebin this time!)

So if the mods want to delete one of these posts as a duplicate then please get rid of the original post on the ‘Themes and Templates’ forum and leave this one here. Sorry. And thanks!

Anyway, hopefully someone can help me with this as I can’t seem to find any reference to it elsewhere.

The theme I’m putting together has a Links Template that outputs all of the Links by category (i.e. ‘Blogroll’, ‘Related Sites’, etc.) The code I’m using works fine when Debug mode is switched off, but produces a PHP Notice when Debug is on:

Notice: get_categories was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 3.0!

The only line I can see being the problem is:
$categories = get_categories('type=link');

But nothing on the get_categories() function page suggests that “type” has been deprecated.

I’m using WordPress 3.2.1.

It’s probably unnecessary, but the complete code can be found at pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/LitthWcc

When I delete that code chunk from the template, the PHP Notice disappears.

Cheers!
jim.