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+# Soft-locked branch
+
+This branch (v0.x) is soft-locked. Active development is continuing on the v1.x branch, and v0.x will only get cherry-picked fixes. Please open all PRs against v1.x, and changes will be manually moved across to v0.x as and when needed.
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 # Contributing to RenderDoc
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