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This adds a more visible deprecation banner to the readme to encourage users to upgrade to v2 of the driver in light of the upcoming end-of-life of v1.

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds a prominent deprecation notice to the 1.17 readme to inform users that v1 of the Go driver is no longer actively developed and will reach end-of-life in early 2026. The notice encourages users to upgrade to v2 for new features while clarifying that bug fixes and critical updates will continue until early 2026.

  • Adds a bold, red deprecation banner at the top of the README
  • Communicates the end-of-life timeline and support policy

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<p style="text-align:center; font-size:1.25em; font-weight:bold; color:red; padding:2em;">
This version of the Go driver is no longer actively developed and will not receive new features.
For new features, please upgrade to the next major version.
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Suggestion for 2nd line: "For access to the latest features and improvements, we encourage you to upgrade to the new major version(v2.0)."

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Good point. Updated but used v2.x for the version number, as we don't want people to use 2.0 either.

@alcaeus alcaeus added the documentation Pull requests that update documentation or examples label Oct 29, 2025
@alcaeus alcaeus merged commit c1e9575 into mongodb:release/1.17 Oct 30, 2025
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@alcaeus alcaeus deleted the more-visible-deprecation-banner branch October 30, 2025 07:16
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