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 The driver currently supports 4.0+ servers.
 
+** 4.0 support is deprecated and support will be removed in an upcoming driver release. **
+
 For exhaustive server and runtime version compatibility matrices, please refer to the following links:
 
 - [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/drivers/node/current/compatibility/#mongodb-compatibility)