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 ### Contributing to Gatsby v1
 
-We are currently only accepting bug fixes for Gatsby v1. All new features, docs enhancements, and other improvements _must_ be created against v2 (the `master` branch).
+We are currently only accepting bug fixes for Gatsby v1. No new features will be accepted.
 
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