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 ## Contributing
 
-Please see our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to raise issues and how to contribute code to our project.
+Camunda 7 Community Edition will reach its end of life by next October and the Enterprise Edition will move into maintenance mode, receiving only critical updates from that point forward. Looking ahead, [Camunda 8](https://github.com/camunda/camunda) is the successor to this project, so we strongly encourage you to explore it and contribute there instead.
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+If you’d still like to contribute to this project, please see our [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to raise issues and how to contribute code to our project.
 
 ## Tests