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@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ Noms is different from other databases. It is:
 
 * *Decentralized*. If I give you a copy of my database, you and I can modify our copies disconnected from each other, and come back together and merge our changes efficiently and correctly days, weeks, or years later.
 
-- *Incomplete*. This is a somewhere between alpha and beta software. We are fairly confident in the core format, but major features like queries, concurrency, automatic merging, and GC are not yet implemented. Please keep a separate backup of data outside of Noms until we are out of beta.
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 ## Setup
 
 Noms is supported on Mac OS X and Linux. Windows usually works, but isn't officially supported.
@@ -67,9 +65,10 @@ Trivially import snapshots from any format or API. Data is automatically version
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 ## Status
 
-**Noms is in beta. Please keep a backup of important data in some other store.**
+We are fairly confident in the core data format, and plan to support Noms database version `7` and forward. If you create a database with Noms today, future versions will have migration tools to pull your databases forward.
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+However, many important features are not yet implemented including a query system, concurrency, auto-merging, and GC.
 
-We are working toward a 1.0, after which time we will remove this warning and guarantee format stability.
 
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 ## Talk