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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ PastureStack is an independent community effort to preserve, audit, and moderniz
 
 **Upstream:** [`rancher/scheduler`](https://github.com/rancher/scheduler). This GitHub fork retains the upstream Git history, authorship, dates, and license notices. PastureStack maintenance is consolidated into one commit after the preserved upstream boundary.
 
-The current release candidate and next Catalog image are `v0.8.18`.
+The current published release and Catalog image are `v0.8.18`.
 
 ## Runtime image