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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ We are pleased to announce the following Consul updates.
 
   Consul's API gateway is the recommended alternative to ingress gateway. For ingress gateway features not currently supported by API gateway, equivalent functionality will be added to API gateway over the next several releases of Consul.
 
-- **Connect Native Golang SDK:** The Connect Native golang SDK ([github](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/connect) is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. No further enhancements or maintenance is expected in the future releases. The eventual removal of the SDK is dependent on the delivery of proxyless GRPC via XDS which is tracked on [GH-10339](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10339). 
+- **Connect Native Golang SDK:** The Connect Native [golang SDK](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/main/connect) is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. No further enhancements or maintenance is expected in the future releases. The eventual removal of the SDK is dependent on the delivery of proxyless GRPC via XDS which is tracked on [GH-10339](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10339). 
 
 - **Connect Native APIs:** The following APIs for Connect Native are deprecated: 
   - `v1/agent/connect/authorize` - used by the SDK to perform intention based authorization checks