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 django-readers
 ==============
 
-**STATUS: EXPERIMENTAL**
-
 **A lightweight function-oriented toolkit for better organisation of business logic and efficient selection and projection of data in Django projects.**
 
 Tested against Django 2.2 - 3.2 on Python 3.6 - 3.9.
diff --git a/django_readers/__init__.py b/django_readers/__init__.py
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-__version__ = "0.0.7"
+__version__ = "1.0.0"