diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index add7135..378fbbc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-TACO Server 
+DEPRECATED: TACO Server 
 =====================
 [![Phovea][phovea-image]][phovea-url] [![Build Status][circleci-image]][circleci-url]
 
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ This is the repository for the server code. **The client code is available in th
 
 A simple way to install taco is using the [taco_product](https://github.com/Caleydo/taco_product).
 
+### DEPRECATION Information
+Please note that this project has been archived and is no longer being maintained. There is an active development under https://github.com/datavisyn/tdp_core and we will also contribute our future changes to it.
+
 Installation
 ------------
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fa9143d..bb3346d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "taco_server",
-  "description": "The server part for comparing large tabular data using Phovea",
-  "version": "6.0.0",
+  "description": "DEPRECATED: The server part for comparing large tabular data using Phovea",
+  "version": "7.0.0",
   "author": {
     "name": "The Caleydo Team",
     "email": "contact@caleydo.org",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 84c79de..0386d02 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 sklearn==0.0
-phovea_server>=7.0.0,<8.0.0
\ No newline at end of file
+phovea_server>=7.2.0,<8.0.0
\ No newline at end of file