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-This repo is OBSOLETE - please see the README file for information
+## NOTE: This repo is solely for maintenance of the existing MVC precompilation feature. Future work on Razor compilation is now being handled in the [Razor](https://github.com/aspnet/razor) repo. See [aspnet/Razor#1740](https://github.com/aspnet/Razor/issues/1740) for additional details.