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 <img src="./gopher.png" alt="go-utils-gopher" width="210"/>
 
+## Keptn V1 has reached end of life on December 22nd, 2023 and has been replaced.
+
 This repository contains packages for common functionality around the [Keptn Project](https://github.com/keptn).
 Please post any issues to [keptn/keptn repository](https://github.com/keptn/keptn/issues) and label them
 with `area:go-utils`.
@@ -173,4 +175,4 @@ fmt.Println(*eventContext.KeptnContext)
 The GO models for the Keptn API can be used by importing: `github.com/keptn/go-utils/pkg/api/models`.
 
 Further, the GO models for e.g. the shipyard `yaml` etc. can be used by
-importing: `github.com/keptn/go-utils/pkg/lib/v0_2_0`
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+importing: `github.com/keptn/go-utils/pkg/lib/v0_2_0`