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 # Contributing
 
-Contributions are **welcome**. Please make all pull requests against the development branch (currently 8.x.x) and NOT master which is only for releases.
+Contributions are **welcome**. Please make all pull requests against the `development` branch and NOT `master` which is only for releases.
 
 We accept contributions via Pull Requests on [Github](https://github.com/HDInnovations/UNIT3D).