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# Protocol Buffers - Protobuf Editions design documents
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This directory contains historical design documents that describe plans for
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implementing Protobuf Editions. For an up-to-date overview of this feature of
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Protocol Buffers, see
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[Protobuf Editions Overview](https://protobuf.dev/editions/overview/).
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These files represent the state that the original documents were in at the time
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that they were published to this repository. While some updates *may* be made to
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the files after their initial upload, you should consider the possibility that
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they are outdated as you read them. These are purely for historical value and
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should not be treated as documentation of the current state.
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Note that the authors listed in the topics were the authors of the *original*
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version of the document; it may have changed since they last worked on the
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document.
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## Design Documents
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The following topics are in this repository:
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* [What are Protobuf Editions?](what-are-protobuf-editions.md)
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* [Life of an Edition](life-of-an-edition.md)
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* [Protobuf Editions Design: Features](protobuf-editions-design-features.md)
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* [Editions: Life of a Featureset](editions-life-of-a-featureset.md)
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* [Edition Naming](edition-naming.md)
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