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 # Netty Project
 
-Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high
-performance protocol servers & clients.
+Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
 
 ## Links
 
@@ -19,11 +18,8 @@ You require the following to build Netty:
 * Latest stable [Oracle JDK 7](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/)
 * Latest stable [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/)
 
-Note that this is build-time requirement.  JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0) is enough to run your Netty-based
-application.
+Note that this is build-time requirement.  JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
 
-## Branches
-
-* [4.0](https://github.com/netty/netty)
-* [3.x](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/3)
+## Branches to look
 
+[The 'master' branch](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/master) is where the development of the latest major version lives on.  The development of all other major versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to its major version number.  For example, the development of 3.x and 4.x resides in [the branch '3'](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/3) and [the branch '4'](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/4) respectively.