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@@ -119,6 +119,4 @@ The procedure of doing this is the following:
 Releases
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 Each release of wayland-protocols finalizes the version of the protocols
-to their state they had at that time. Between each release, backward
-incompatible changes can be made to both stable and major unstable protocol
-versions as long as the requirements are held upon release.
+to their state they had at that time.