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+# Gherkin
+
+The Gherkin project has moved to the [cucumber/cucumber](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/tree/master/gherkin)
+monorepo.
+
+All issues and pull requests have been closed.
+
+New issues should be created in the [cucumber/cucumber issue tracker](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/issues). Issues that replace closed
+issues in this repo can link to the old issues for context.