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+## Important Announcement: Architectural changes in v8
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+> Major performance improvements are on the way! Please see our [blog post](https://www.thepollyproject.org/2023/03/03/we-want-your-feedback-introducing-polly-v8/) to learn more and provide feedback in the [related GitHub issue](https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly/issues/1048).
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 # Polly
 
 Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, Rate-limiting and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner.