README.md in heirloom-0.12.5 vs README.md in heirloom-0.12.7

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 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/intuit/heirloom.png)](http://travis-ci.org/intuit/heirloom)
 [![Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com/github/intuit/heirloom.png)](https://codeclimate.com/github/intuit/heirloom)
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+**Heirloom is in maintenance mode!**
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+**We will continue to provide support for bug fix requests, however new features will not be added.**
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+We recommend using the [AWS CLI](http://aws.amazon.com/cli/) and [GPG](https://www.gnupg.org/)
+to distribute encrypted files in S3.
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 Heirloom
 ========
 
 The goal of Heirloom is to securely and easily transport data to cloud hosted applciations.