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 You require the following to build Netty:
 
-* Latest stable [OpenJDK 8]https://adoptopenjdk.net)
+* Latest stable [OpenJDK 8](https://adoptopenjdk.net)
 * Latest stable [Apache Maven](https://maven.apache.org/)
 * If you are on Linux, you need [additional development packages](https://netty.io/wiki/native-transports.html) installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.