diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
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@@ -40,4 +40,5 @@ src/sagemaker/modules/train/container_drivers/distributed.json
 tests/data/**/_repack_model.py
 tests/data/experiment/sagemaker-dev-1.0.tar.gz
 src/sagemaker/serve/tmp_workspace
-test-examples
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diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index 69038056b0..3355f3b036 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 ###########################
 Amazon SageMaker Python SDK
 ###########################
+
+.. note::
+   Version 2.x of the SageMaker Python SDK is on a deprecation path.
+   For the latest features and continued support, see the SageMaker Python SDK
+   `V3 documentation <https://sagemaker.readthedocs.io/>`_.
+   For version lifecycle, see `this page <https://sagemaker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/lifecycle.html>`_.
+
 Amazon SageMaker Python SDK is an open source library for training and deploying machine-learned models on Amazon SageMaker.
 
 With the SDK, you can train and deploy models using popular deep learning frameworks, algorithms provided by Amazon, or your own algorithms built into SageMaker-compatible Docker images.