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 # Contribution Guidelines
 
-If you are submitting documentation for the **current stable release**, submit it to the corresponding branch. For example, documentation for Laravel 5.1 would be submitted to the `5.1` branch. Documentation intended for the next release of Laravel should be submitted to the `master` branch.
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+If you are submitting documentation for the **current stable release**, submit it to the corresponding branch. For example, documentation for Laravel 5.5 would be submitted to the `5.5` branch. Documentation intended for the next release of Laravel should be submitted to the `master` branch.