diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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-language: julia
-
-os:
-    - linux
-
-julia:
-    - 1.6
-
-notifications:
-    email: false
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
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 This package provides constraint-based reconstruction and analysis tools for
 exa-scale metabolic modeling in Julia.
 
+**This repository contains the "legacy" version of COBREXA (version 1.x).
+COBREXA development is continuing at
+[github.com/COBREXA](https://github.com/COBREXA/) with a much-improved version
+2.x, and many other new packages. Unless you need version 1.x for compatibility
+reasons, we recommend switching to version 2!**
+
 ## How to get started
 
 ### Prerequisites and requirements
@@ -80,9 +86,14 @@ of the package).
 You can install COBREXA from Julia repositories. Start `julia`, **press `]`** to
 switch to the Packaging environment, and type:
 ```
-add COBREXA
+add COBREXA@1
 ```
 
+(Note: the above command installs the "1.x" version of COBREXA, which is what
+is described in this repository and the associated documentation. If you are
+not limited by compatibility and similar reasons, consider updating to [COBREXA
+2](https://github.com/COBREXA/COBREXA.jl).)
+
 You also need to install your favorite solver supported by `JuMP.jl` (such as
 Gurobi, Mosek, CPLEX, GLPK, Clarabel, etc., see a [list
 here](https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/installation/#Supported-solvers)).  For