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 Read-only mirrors exist on [sourcehut](https://git.sr.ht/~ifreund/river)
 and [github](https://github.com/riverwm/river).
 
-*Note: river has not yet seen a stable 1.0 release. It will be necessary to
-make significant breaking before 1.0 to realize my longer term plans. That said,
-I do my best to avoid gratuitous breaking changes and bugs/crashes should be rare.
-If you find a bug don't hesitate to
+*Note: river has not yet seen a stable 1.0 release and it will be necessary to
+make significant breaking changes before 1.0 to realize my longer term plans.
+That said, I do my best to avoid gratuitous breaking changes and bugs/crashes
+should be rare. If you find a bug don't hesitate to
 [open an issue](https://codeberg.org/river/river/issues/new/choose).*
 
 ## Design goals