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[docs]: update project status section for clarity and conciseness
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Expand Up @@ -89,4 +89,14 @@ Contributions to `container` are welcome and encouraged. Please see our [main co

## Project Status

The container project is currently under active development. Its stability, both for consuming the project as a Swift package and the `container` tool, is only guaranteed within patch versions, such as between 0.1.1 and 0.1.2. Minor version releases may include breaking changes until we reach a 1.0.0 release.
The container project is under active development and has reached a 1.x release.
It is considered production-quality: the tool and its Swift package APIs are
suitable for production use on supported systems.

The project follows [semantic versioning](https://semver.org) for both the
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`container` tool and its Swift package APIs: breaking changes are
reserved for major version releases, while minor and patch releases remain
backward compatible.

Release notes flag breaking CLI changes with ⌨️ and breaking API changes with 👩‍💻.
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See the [releases page](https://github.com/apple/container/releases) for details.
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