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+## DEPRECATION NOTICE:
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+**We have shifted our efforts from this project to the [rusty-hermit](https://github.com/hermitcore/rusty-hermit) project, which is also a unikernel but rewritten in Rust.
+This project will not receive any active contributions from the maintainers and only limited responses/help in GitHub issues.**
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 # HermitCore - A lightweight unikernel for a scalable and predictable runtime behavior
 
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