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   under the License.
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+# This repository is archived.
+
+The owners of this repository have archived this repository, and do not intend to make further updates. They now use a copy of this repository internally, but intend to
+move off of flytekit-java entirely, and not support flytekit-java with flyte V2. 
+
 # flytekit-java
 
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