diff --git a/contrib/gopkg.in/jinzhu/gorm.v1/gorm.go b/contrib/gopkg.in/jinzhu/gorm.v1/gorm.go
index 8b8e9790b7..dd5580e9a7 100644
--- a/contrib/gopkg.in/jinzhu/gorm.v1/gorm.go
+++ b/contrib/gopkg.in/jinzhu/gorm.v1/gorm.go
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 // Copyright 2016 Datadog, Inc.
 
 // Package gorm provides helper functions for tracing the jinzhu/gorm package (https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm).
+//
+// Deprecated: The underlying gopkg.in/jinzhu/gorm packages has known security vulnerabilities and is no longer under
+// active development. As such consider this package DEPRECATED.
+// It is highly recommended that you update to the latest version available here as a contrib package "gorm.io/gorm.v1".
 package gorm
 
 import (
diff --git a/contrib/jinzhu/gorm/gorm.go b/contrib/jinzhu/gorm/gorm.go
index c79c134c00..35d9c0f177 100644
--- a/contrib/jinzhu/gorm/gorm.go
+++ b/contrib/jinzhu/gorm/gorm.go
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 // Copyright 2016 Datadog, Inc.
 
 // Package gorm provides helper functions for tracing the jinzhu/gorm package (https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm).
+//
+// Deprecated: The underlying github.com/jinzhu/gorm packages has known security vulnerabilities and is no longer under
+// active development.
+// It is highly recommended that you update to the latest version available here as a contrib package "gorm.io/gorm.v1".
 package gorm
 
 import (