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 Development - Version 1.0.0
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-There currently is a perelease for 1.0.0 which fixes a number of problems over 0.2.3. 
+There currently is a prerelease for 1.0.0 which fixes a number of problems over 0.2.3. 
 There's still a CI test that sporadically fails on Travis-CI only, but not on other test
 machines I have access to. Supposedly it is a still undetected race condition.