Canal CNI provider status?

[paraenggu]

Rancher's documentation lists Canal as a shipped and supported CNI provider and indicates it is the default:

In Rancher, Canal is the default CNI network provider combined with Flannel and VXLAN encapsulation.

• What CNI Providers are Provided by Rancher?
• RKE2 Kubernetes clusters - Canal
• Cluster Configuration

According to the upstream project: https://github.com/projectcalico/canal which is also linked in the Rancher documentation, the project was archived as of 2025-10-20:

This repository was archived by the owner on Oct 20, 2025. It is now read-only.

What's the current state of this provider from a Rancher perspective?

Thanks in advance for the clarification.