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 How to documentation is available in the [wiki](https://github.com/scala/scala-xml/wiki)
 
-The latest stable release of Scala XML is 2.0.1.
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 ## Maintenance status
 
 This library is community-maintained. The lead maintainer is [@aaron_s_hawley](https://github.com/ashawley).