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@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Current Elastic4s versions support Scala 2.12 and 2.13. Scala 2.10 support has b
 
 | Elastic Version | Scala 2.11                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Scala 2.12                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Scala 2.13                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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+| 8.1.x           || [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.12/8.1.svg?label=latest%208.1%20release%20for%202.12"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.12%22)   | [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.13/8.1.svg?label=latest%208.1%20release%20for%202.13"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.13%22)   |
 | 8.0.x           || [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.12/8.0.svg?label=latest%208.0%20release%20for%202.12"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.12%22)   | [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.13/8.0.svg?label=latest%208.0%20release%20for%202.13"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.13%22)   |
 | 7.17.x          || [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.12/7.17.svg?label=latest%207.17%20release%20for%202.12"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.12%22) | [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.13/7.17.svg?label=latest%207.17%20release%20for%202.13"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.13%22) |
 | 7.16.x          || [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.12/7.16.svg?label=latest%207.16%20release%20for%202.12"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.12%22) | [<img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.sksamuel.elastic4s/elastic4s-core_2.13/7.16.svg?label=latest%207.16%20release%20for%202.13"/>](http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elastic4s-core_2.13%22) |