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 This may lead to breakage in your consuming code, and if so, sorry that's happened!
 
 We'll be aware of the issue, and will work to update both the core `oapi-codegen` and the middlewares accordingly.
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+## Sponsors
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+For the most part, `oapi-codegen` is maintained in two busy peoples' free time. As noted in [Creating a more sustainable model for `oapi-codegen` in the future](https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen/discussions/1606), we're looking to make this a more sustainable project in the future.
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+We're very appreciative of [the many contributors over the years](https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen/graphs/contributors) and **??**.
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+Please consider sponsoring us through GitHub Sponsors either [on the organisation](https://github.com/sponsors/oapi-codegen/) or [directly for Jamie](https://github.com/sponsors/jamietanna/), which helps work towards us being able to **??**.
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+See [this blog post from Tidelift](https://blog.tidelift.com/paying-maintainers-the-howto) for more details on how to **??**.
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+We are currently generously sponsored by the following folks, each of whom provide sponsorship for 1 hour of work a month:
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