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+<!---
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
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+# mina-ftpserver
+The active branches are:
+- 1.1.x
+- 1.2.x
+
+We do not use the branch `master`.
+
