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+<!--
+
+STOP!  If you are reporting a security issue, which includes *anything* that
+       may cause the broker/client to crash, please do NOT report it here but
+       follow the steps at https://www.eclipse.org/security/
+
+If your issue is not a bug or a feature request, please use the mailing list at
+https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/mosquitto-dev to ask your question.
+There are many more people available to help there than on this issue tracker.
+
+If you are reporting a bug PLEASE include the version of Mosquitto you are
+using and what platform (Windows, Ubuntu/Fedora/... Linux, FreeBSD, ...) you
+are running on.
+
+Please also note that some systems have old versions of Mosquitto available in
+their package repositories. We would be very grateful if you would check to
+see whether the bug is still present in a newer version before submitting your
+issue.
+
+-->
+