From 81be6cf6d79c562eccb5eaf978b12e032db2b25c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven <s-8@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 21:22:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add deprecation notice, move release channels to top

---
 README.md | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c5b2ffa..b0d1db7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,18 @@ The base-image of this action is very small and based on **Alpine 3.23.0** (no c
 Alpine version: [3.23.0](https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.23.0-released.html)
 Rsync version: [3.4.1-r1](https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.1)
 
+## Current Version: v8 (8.0.2)
+
+### Release channels:
+
+| Version | Purpose          | Immutable  | 
+| ------- | ------------------ | ------------------ | 
+| ``v8`` (recommended)  |  latest MAJOR (pointer to 8.MINOR.PATCH) | no |
+| 8.0.2  | latest MINOR+PATCH | yes |
+| 7.1.0   | previous release ([deprecation notice](https://github.com/Burnett01/rsync-deployments/discussions/96)) | yes |
+
+Check [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) for support cycles.
+
 ---
 
 ## How it works
@@ -78,18 +90,6 @@ This action needs secret variables for the ssh private key of your key pair. The
 
 For simplicity, we are using `REMOTE_*` as the secret variables throughout the examples.
 
-## Current Version: v8 (8.0.2)
-
-### Release channels:
-
-| Version | Purpose          | Immutable  | 
-| ------- | ------------------ | ------------------ | 
-| ``v8`` (recommended)  |  latest MAJOR (pointer to 8.MINOR.PATCH) | no |
-| 8.0.2  | latest MINOR+PATCH | yes |
-| 7.1.0   | previous release | yes |
-
-Check [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) for support cycles.
-
 ## Example usage
 
 For better **security** always use secrets for remote_host, remote_port, remote_user and remote_path inputs.