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+**IMPORTANT NOTE: We're starting to migrate contents of this repo to the [devcontainers org](https://github.com/devcontainers), as part of the work on the [open dev container specification](https://containers.dev).**
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+**We've currently migrated a set of Features to a new [devcontainers/features](https://github.com/devcontainers/features) repo, and we'll now be publishing images from [devcontainers/images](https://github.com/devcontainers/images).**
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+**For more details, you can review the [announcement issue](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/issues/1589).**
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 # VS Code Remote / GitHub Codespaces Container Definitions
 
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