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 All of the VOLTHA components and the charts include a VERSION file that specifies
 the version of the service, library, protobuf, test suite included in the repository.
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+- The `VERSION <https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/voltha-go/+/refs/heads/master/VERSION>`_ file can be found in a repository root directory.
+- One exception: maven based builds using pom.xml files.
+
 The VERSION is in the format and follows the `SemVer principles <https://semver.org>`_
 VOLTHA also follows the guidelines on how to increment versions as described in the
 `SemVer specification <https://semver.org/#semantic-versioning-specification-semver>`_.