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 Bugs and Questions
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-CheerpJ is currently in a private beta stage, and we welcome any feedback and bug report on it through our Issue Tracking.
+CheerpJ is currently in a public beta stage, and we welcome any feedback and bug report on it through our Issue Tracking.
 
-You can also get in touch via our [mailing list][mail] or via the IRC channel
-\#plasma-umass on Freenode.
+You can also get in touch via our [mailing list][mail].
 
 [mail]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cheerpj-developers