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+# End of Life Notice
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+We envision the 2.x releases as the end-of-life for CurationConcerns. During 2017, the [Samvera community](http://samvera.org/) consolidated [Sufia](https://github.com/samvera/sufia) and [CurationConcerns](https://github.com/samvera/curation_concerns) into [Hyrax](https://github.com/samvera/hyrax):
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+* [planning notes on consolidation](https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=78161232))
+* [release notes on the bridge of Sufia to Hyrax](https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/releases/tag/v1.0.0)
+* [release notes on the bridge of CurationConcerns to Hyrax](https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/releases/tag/v2.0.0)
+* [Samvera documentation for developers and managers](https://samvera.github.io)
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 A Hydra-based Rails Engine that extends an application, adding the ability to Create, Read, Update and Destroy (CRUD) objects (based on [Hydra::Works](http://github.com/samvera/hydra-works)) and providing a generator for defining object types with custom workflows, views, access controls, etc.
 
 ## Prerequisites