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 # Qortal Project UI
 
+==
+The Qortal UI is deprecated (old, no longer developed) and will be no longer able to be utilized after version 5.0 release of the Qortal Core.
+==
+
 ![GitHub tag (latest by date)](https://img.shields.io/github/v/tag/Qortal/qortal-ui?label=latest%20version)
 [![GitHub Releases](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/Qortal/qortal-ui/latest/total)](https://github.com/Qortal/qortal-ui/releases/latest)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL--3.0-blue)](https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0)