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+# Decommissioned Project
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+**NOTICE: No Further Support or Active Development**
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+## Successor Project / Maintained Fork
+
+If you are looking for an actively maintained version of this project, please refer to:
+- [kafbat/kafka-ui](kafbat/kafka-ui](https://github.com/kafbat/kafka-ui))
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+
 ![UI for Apache Kafka logo](documentation/images/kafka-ui-logo.png) UI for Apache Kafka 
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 #### Versatile, fast and lightweight web UI for managing Apache Kafka® clusters. Built by developers, for developers.