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 develop   | [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/tendermint/tree/develop.svg?style=shield)](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/tendermint/tree/develop) | [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tendermint/tendermint/branch/develop/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/tendermint/tendermint) | [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/develop)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/develop)
 master    | [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master.svg?style=shield)](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master) | [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tendermint/tendermint/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/tendermint/tendermint) | [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/tendermint/tendermint/tree/master)
 
-_NOTE: This is yet pre-alpha non-production-quality software._
+_NOTE: This is alpha software. Please contact us if you intend to run it in production._
 
 Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine, written in any programming language,
 and securely replicates it on many machines.