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 ## Contributing
 
-Piwigo is widely driven by it's community; if you want to improve the code, fork this repo and submit your changes to the `develop` branch.
+Piwigo is widely driven by it's community; if you want to improve the code, fork this repo and submit your changes to the `master` branch.
 
 ## License