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The main purpose of this paper is to give a survey of the deformation theory of toric singularities (or equivalently, of affine toric varieties) known so far. In this paper, after an introduction into the subject of toric varieties, the progress of some questions are discussed in a separate section. But, this paper does not contain any proofs; the author said ``the claims are either standard, or easy exercises, or we refer to the original papers''. -- Some of the theorems in this paper are the followings: Theorem: The infinitesimal deformations of \(Y_\sigma\) in degree \(-R\) are given by \(T_Y^1(-R)= \{(\underline t,\underline s) \in V_\mathbb{C}(R)+W_\mathbb{C} (R)\mid(\underline t,\underline x)\) fulfills all the equations \(G_{i, j}\}/\mathbb{C}\cdot (\underline 1,\underline 1)\) Theorem: Let \(\sigma= \text{cone} (Q)\) be a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Gorenstein cone which is at least 3-dimensional. Assume that \(T_Y^1\) is finite-dimensional \((Y_\sigma\) has an isolated singularity). Then, (1) \(Y_\sigma\) is rigid unless it is Gorenstein. (2) Let \(Y_\sigma\) be Gorenstein, i.e., \(g=1\); then \(T_Y^1= T_Y^1(-R^*)= V_\mathbb{C}(Q)/ \mathbb{C}\cdot\underline 1\). If, moreover, \(Y_\sigma\) is smooth in the codimension 3, then \(Y_\sigma\) is rigid, too. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0919.00048].