diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/util/Version.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/util/Version.java
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-// DO NOT MODIFY - WILL BE OVERWRITTEN DURING THE BUILD PROCESS
-package org.jboss.netty.util;
-/**
- * Provides the version information of Netty.
- * @apiviz.landmark
- */
-public final class Version {
- /** The version identifier. */
- public static final String ID = "4.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT-f62bb85";
- /** Prints out the version identifier to stdout. */
- public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(ID); }
- private Version() { super(); }
-}