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@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ ZeeQS - Zeebe Query Service
 =========================
 
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Community%20Extension-An%20open%20source%20community%20maintained%20project-FF4700)](https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/community)
-[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lifecycle-Stable-brightgreen)](https://github.com/Camunda-Community-Hub/community/blob/main/extension-lifecycle.md#stable-)
+[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lifecycle-Unmaintained-lightgrey)](https://github.com/Camunda-Community-Hub/community/blob/main/extension-lifecycle.md#Unmaintained-)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
 
 [![Compatible with: Camunda Platform 8](https://img.shields.io/badge/Compatible%20with-Camunda%20Platform%208-0072Ce)](https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/community/blob/main/extension-lifecycle.md#compatiblilty)
 
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> This community extension is **unmaintained** and outdated. It may not support new Camunda versions. 
+>
+> Thank you to all [contributors](https://github.com/camunda-community-hub/zeeqs/graphs/contributors) for making it a great extension. :tada:
+
 A [Zeebe](https://github.com/camunda/zeebe) community extension that provides a [GraphQL](https://graphql.org/) query
 API over Zeebe's
 data. The data is