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+# DEPRECATED
+
+[![No Maintenance Intended](http://unmaintained.tech/badge.svg)](http://unmaintained.tech/)
+
+`VOLTHA 2.4` was the last release that officially supported the `ofagent` written in python as the openflow agent for VOLTHA.
+From `2.4` onwards the ofagent is the [ofaget-go](https://github.com/opencord/ofagent-go). This codebase is going to be removed after the VOLTHA 2.8 release LTS support ends in December 2022.
+
 # ofagent-py
 
 ofagent-py provides an OpenFlow management interface for Voltha.
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-2.2.7
+2.2.8