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@@ -21,6 +21,25 @@ consistency and thread safety. Bolt is currently used in high-load production environments serving databases as large as 1TB. Many companies such as Shopify and Heroku use Bolt-backed services every day. +## A message from the author + +> The original goal of Bolt was to provide a simple pure Go key/value store and to +> not bloat the code with extraneous features. To that end, the project has been +> a success. However, this limited scope also means that the project is complete. +> +> Maintaining an open source database requires an immense amount of time and energy. +> Changes to the code can have unintended and sometimes catastrophic effects so +> even simple changes require hours and hours of careful testing and validation. +> +> Unfortunately I no longer have the time or energy to continue this work. Bolt is +> in a stable state and has years of successful production use. As such, I feel that +> leaving it in its current state is the most prudent course of action. +> +> If you are interested in using a more featureful version of Bolt, I suggest that +> you look at the CoreOS fork called [bbolt](https://github.com/coreos/bbolt). + +- Ben Johnson ([@benbjohnson](https://twitter.com/benbjohnson)) + ## Table of Contents - [Getting Started](#getting-started) |