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+## Lucet is in Maintence Mode
+
+Since mid 2020, the Lucet team has been focusing our efforts on the
+[Wasmtime][wasmtime] project. Wasmtime now has support for all of the features
+that previously only Lucet had, such as ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation
+and a pooling userfaultfd-based memory allocator.
+
+We encourage all new projects to use [Wasmtime][wasmtime], and existing Lucet
+users to transition to Wasmtime.
+
+[wasmtime]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
+
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