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 [Alibaba Cloud OSS Example](https://github.com/spring-cloud-incubator/spring-cloud-alibaba/blob/master/spring-cloud-alibaba-examples/oss-example/readme.md)
 
 ## Version control guidelines
-The version number of the project is in the form of x.x.x, where x is a number, starting from 0, and is not limited to the range 0~9. When the project is in the incubator phase, the first version number is fixed to 0, that is, the version number is 0.x.x.
+The version number of the project is in the form of x.x.x, where x is a number, starting from 0, and is not limited to the range 0~9. When the project is in the incubator phase, the version number is 0.x.x.
 
 As the interfaces and annotations of Spring Boot 1 and Spring Boot 2 have been changed significantly in the Actuator module, and spring-cloud-commons is also changed quite a lot from 1.x.x to 2.0.0, we maintain two different branches to support Spring Boot 1 and Spring Boot 2:
 * 0.1.x for Spring Boot 1