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-# Amazon Braket Simulator Version 2
+# Amazon Braket Simulator Version 2 (experimental)
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+**⚠️ DEPRECATED — This package is no longer supported.** No further releases, bug fixes, or security updates will be made. Existing installations will continue to function but are not maintained. Please migrate to an actively maintained local simulator from the [Amazon Braket SDK](https://github.com/amazon-braket/amazon-braket-sdk-python) (e.g. the default `LocalSimulator` backends).
 
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-This Amazon Braket Simulator is a second generation of our Python open source library that provides an
+This Amazon Braket Simulator is an experimental second generation of our Python open source library that provides an
 implementation of a quantum simulators that you can run locally. You can use the simulator to test quantum tasks
 that you construct for the [Amazon Braket SDK](https://github.com/amazon-braket/amazon-braket-sdk-python) before you submit them to the Amazon Braket service for execution.