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+## 🚫🚫🚫 Please do not open new issues in this repo 🚫🚫🚫
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+The dotnet/corefx repo has moved to [dotnet/runtime](https://github.com/dotnet/runtime). Please open all new issues there. In due course, all pre-existing issues will be migrated there as well, and at that time we will disable issues in this repo.