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 The README briefly describes how to get started with building and installing HPVM. It also provides a
 benchmark suite to test the compiler infrastructure.
 
+HPVM is currently at version 0.5. For more about what HPVM is, see [our website](https://publish.illinois.edu/hpvm-project/).
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 ## Paper
 
 [PPoPP'18 paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3200691.3178493)