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-Apache Hudi
+Apache Hudi (incubating)
 Copyright 2019 The Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed at
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 # Hudi
-Apache Hudi (pronounced Hoodie) stands for `Hadoop Upserts anD Incrementals`. Hudi manages storage of large analytical datasets on DFS (Cloud stores, HDFS or any Hadoop FileSystem compatible storage) and provide ability to query them  via three types of views
+Apache Hudi (incubating) (pronounced Hoodie) stands for `Hadoop Upserts anD Incrementals`. Hudi manages storage of large analytical datasets on DFS (Cloud stores, HDFS or any Hadoop FileSystem compatible storage) and provide ability to query them  via three types of views
 
  * **Read Optimized View** - Provides excellent query performance via purely columnar storage (e.g. [Parquet](https://parquet.apache.org/))
  * **Incremental View** - Provides a change stream with records inserted or updated after a point in time.
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   <artifactId>hudi</artifactId>
   <packaging>pom</packaging>
   <version>0.5.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-  <description>Apache Hudi brings stream style processing on big data</description>
+  <description>Apache Hudi (incubating) brings stream style processing on big data</description>
   <url>https://github.com/apache/incubator-hudi</url>
   <name>Hudi</name>