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 A practical guide to developing CouchDB plugins.
 
-*NOTE: This is incomplete, barely tested, works only with the 1867-feature-plugin branch of Apache CouchDB and expects that you understand some Erlang. This is mostly for early review, but if you are daring, you can learn something already :)*
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+*NOTE: this feature is considered beta, possibly subject to change and expects that you understand some Erlang.
 
 ## Preparation