note supported versions of grype (#1458)

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@ -167,6 +167,13 @@ use the `--distro <distro>:<version>` flag. A full example is:
grype --add-cpes-if-none --distro alpine:3.10 sbom:some-apline-3.10.spdx.json
```
### Supported versions
Any version of Grype before v0.40.1 is not supported. Unsupported releases will not receive any software updates or
vulnerability database updates. You can still build vulnerability databases for unsupported Grype releases by using previous
releases of [vunnel](https://github.com/anchore/vunnel) to gather the upstream data and [grype-db](https://github.com/anchore/grype-db)
to build databases for unsupported schemas.
### Working with attestations
Grype supports scanning SBOMs as input via stdin. Users can use [cosign](https://github.com/sigstore/cosign) to verify attestations
with an SBOM as its content to scan an image for vulnerabilities: