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+> [!IMPORTANT]  
+> You are looking at the release candidate for version 2. For the current stable version, see the branch [v1](https://github.com/connectrpc/connect-query-es/tree/v1).
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 <img src="assets/connect-query@16x.png" width="15%" />
 
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