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-**Project Status:** The Graphs project is a reboot of the now-archived LightGraphs
+## Current Project Status
+
+The Graphs project is a reboot of the now-archived LightGraphs
 package, which remains available on GitHub at
 [sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl](https://github.com/sbromberger/LightGraphs.jl). If
 you don't need any new features developed since the fork, you can continue to
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 and is derived purely from LightGraphs. To access the history of the old Graphs code,
 you can start from [commit 9a25019](https://github.com/JuliaGraphs/Graphs.jl/commit/9a2501948053f60c630caf9d4fb257e689629041).
 
+**Transition from LightGraphs to Graphs:**
+
+LightGraphs and Graphs are functionally identical, still there are some steps involved making the change:
+
+* Change `LightGraphs = "093fc24a-ae57-5d10-9952-331d41423f4d"` to `Graphs = "86223c79-3864-5bf0-83f7-82e725a168b6"` in your Project.toml. 
+* Update your `using` and `import` statements.
+* Update your type constraints and other references to `LightGraphs` to `Graphs`.
+* Increment your version number. Following semantic versioning, we suggest a patch release when no graphs or other `Graphs.jl`-objects can be passed through the API of your package by those depending on it, otherwise consider it a breaking release. "Passed through" entails created outside and consumed inside your package and vice versa.
+* Tag a release.
+
+## Overview 
+
 Graphs offers both (a) a set of simple, concrete graph implementations -- `Graph`
 (for undirected graphs) and `DiGraph` (for directed graphs), and (b) an API for
 the development of more sophisticated graph implementations under the `AbstractGraph`