diff --git a/README b/README
index 893ecfe..36b1e6f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,19 +1,4 @@
-Pontarius XMPP 0.1 aims to implement the client capabilities of RFC 6120 ("XMPP
-Core"). We have recently released 0.1 Alpha 7 and are right now working on the
-final architectural details and working towards feature-completeness for 0.1, to
-be able to move the project into beta.
-
-Please note that we are not recommending anyone to use Pontarius XMPP at this
-time as it’s still in an experimental stage and will have its API and data types
-modified. However, if you are interested to use Pontarius XMPP anyway, feel free
-to contact the Pontarius project and we will try to help you get started. Please
-see http://www.pontarius.org/ for documentation and more information.
-
-The next version is scheduled to be released on the 7th of September.
-
-We were not making the release scheduled for the 17th of August, but instead
-released an architectural description document.
-
-Look at the Pontarius web site <http://www.pontarius.org/> and the Pontarius
-XMPP Hackage page <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pontarius-xmpp/> for more
-information.
+Pontarius XMPP 1.0 is a work in progress to build a Haskell XMPP library that
+implements the client capabilities of RFC 6120 ("XMPP Core"). We are currently
+working on cleaning up the code, the final architectural details and towards
+feature-completeness to be able to move the project into beta.