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+Overview
+========
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+Velodyne<sup>1</sup> is a collection of ROS<sup>2</sup> packages supporting `Velodyne high
+definition 3D LIDARs`<sup>3</sup>.
+
+**Warning**:
+
+  The master branch normally contains code being tested for the next
+  ROS release.  It will not always work with every previous release.
+  To check out the source for the most recent release, check out the
+  tag `<version>` with the highest version number.
+
+The current ``master`` branch works with ROS Kinetic and Melodic.
+CI builds are currently run for Kinetic and Melodic.
+
+- <sup>1</sup>Velodyne: http://www.ros.org/wiki/velodyne
+- <sup>2</sup>ROS: http://www.ros.org
+- <sup>3</sup>`Velodyne high definition 3D LIDARs`: http://www.velodynelidar.com/lidar/lidar.aspx