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 Rancher Docs
 ------------
 
+## Contributing
+
+We have transitioned to versioned documentation for Rancher (files within `content/rancher`).
+
+New contributions should be made to the applicable versioned directories (e.g. `content/rancher/v2.5` and `content/rancher/v2.0-v2.4`).
+
+Contents under the `content/rancher/v2.x` directory are no longer maintained after v2.5.6.
+
 ## Running for development/editing
 
 The `rancher/docs:dev` docker image runs a live-updating server.  To run on your workstation, run: