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 We've come a long way, but this project is still in Alpha, lots of development is happening, API might change, beware of the Dragons 🐉..
 
+The documentation in the master branch may contain changes from a pre-release.
+If you are looking for the documentation of the latest release, you can view the latest release on [**npm**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/libp2p), or select the tag in github that matches the version you are looking for.
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 **Want to get started?** Check our [examples folder](/examples).
 
 [**`Weekly Core Dev Calls`**](https://github.com/ipfs/pm/issues/650)