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 Build scripts for HAProxy with QUIC
 
-**PROJECT STATUS: ALPHA**. Seriously, it has __not__ been well tested yet
+**PROJECT STATUS: BETA**. It will generally work fine and we've been using it in
+production ourselves, but please be careful and pin versions explicitly for now.
+We don't exactly have time to triple check everything to never mess up (yet).
 
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