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-osslifecycle=maintained
+osslifecycle=beingsunset
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 # Honeycomb Beeline for Java
 
-[![OSS Lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/osslifecycle/honeycombio/beeline-java?color=success)](https://github.com/honeycombio/home/blob/main/honeycomb-oss-lifecycle-and-practices.md)
+[![OSS Lifecycle](https://img.shields.io/osslifecycle/honeycombio/beeline-java?color=pink)](https://github.com/honeycombio/home/blob/main/honeycomb-oss-lifecycle-and-practices.md)
 [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/honeycombio/beeline-java.svg?style=shield)](https://circleci.com/gh/honeycombio/beeline-java) [![Beeline Core](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/io.honeycomb.beeline/beeline-core.svg)](https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:beeline-core) [![Beeline Spring Boot Starter](https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/io.honeycomb.beeline/beeline-spring-boot-starter.svg)](https://search.maven.org/search?q=a:beeline-spring-boot-starter)
 
+⚠️**STATUS**: This project is being Sunset. See [this issue](https://github.com/honeycombio/beeline-java/issues/322) for more details.
+
 ⚠️**Note**: Beelines are Honeycomb's legacy instrumentation libraries. We embrace OpenTelemetry as the effective way to instrument applications. For any new observability efforts, we recommend [instrumenting with OpenTelemetry](https://docs.honeycomb.io/send-data/java/opentelemetry-agent/).
 
 This package makes it easy to instrument your Java web application to send useful events to