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@@ -13,10 +13,29 @@ of "limen", or "of the threshold". Your router stands at the threshold
 of your (online) home and everything you send to/receive from the
 outside word goes across it.
 
-## What about NixWRT?
 
-This is an in-progress rewrite of NixWRT, incorporating Lessons
-Learned.
+## Current status (does it work yet?)
+
+Liminix is pre-1.0. We are still finding new and better ways to do things,
+and there is no attempt to maintain backward compatibility with the old
+ways. This will change when it settles down.
+
+In general: development mostly happens on the `main` branch, which is
+therefore not guaranteed to build or to work on every commit. For the
+latest functioning version, see [the CI system](https://build.liminix.org/jobset/liminix/build) and pick a
+revision with all jobs green.
+
+In particular, as of July 2023, a significant re-arrangement of
+modules and services is ongoing:
+
+* if you are using out-of-tree configurations created before commit
+  2e50368, especially if they reference things under pkgs.liminix,
+  they will need updating. Look at changes to examples/rotuer.nix
+  for guidance
+
+* the same is intermittently true for examples/{extensino,arhcive}.nix
+  where I've updated rotuer and not updated them to match.
+
 
 ## Documentation
 
@@ -25,6 +44,9 @@ by running
 
     nix-shell -p sphinx --run "make -C doc html"
 
+Rendered documentation corresponding to the latest commit on `main`
+is published to [https://www.liminix.org/doc/](https://www.liminix.org/doc/)
+
 
 ## Extremely online