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@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Please consider the experience with this plug-in as experimental until Neovim 0.
 You can find the current roadmap [here](https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/projects/1).
 The roadmap and all features of this plugin are open to change, and any suggestion will be highly appreciated!**
 
+*If you want to use this plugin with Neovim 0.5, please use the
+0.5-compat branch. Be aware though that most improvements will require
+neovim nightly.*
+
 Nvim-treesitter is based on three interlocking features: [**language parsers**](#language-parsers), [**queries**](#adding-queries), and [**modules**](#available-modules), where *modules* provide features – e.g., highlighting – based on *queries* for syntax objects extracted from a given buffer by *language parsers*.
 Users will generally only need to interact with parsers and modules as explained in the next section.
 For more detailed information on setting these up, see ["Advanced setup"](#advanced-setup).