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+prelude: >
+    The relationship between shade and openstacksdk has been decoupled
+    and the shade library is now officially in maintenance mode. Bugfixes
+    are welcome, and the library remains supported, but no new features
+    will be accepted. Developers are strongly encouraged to migrate to
+    openstacksdk which has the same code but is being actively driven
+    forward.