+In regard to development philosophy, BookStack has a relaxed, open & positive approach. At the end of the day this is free software developed and maintained by people donating their own free time.
+
+## 🌟 Project Sponsors
+
+Shown below are our bronze, silver and gold project sponsors.
+Big thanks to these companies for supporting the project.
+Note: Listed services are not tested, vetted nor supported by the official BookStack project in any manner.
+[View all sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/ssddanbrown).
+
+#### Silver Sponsor
+
+<table><tbody><tr>
+<td><a href="https://www.diagrams.net/" target="_blank">
+ <img width="420" src="https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/BookStackApp/website/main/static/images/sponsors/diagramsnet.png" alt="Diagrams.net">
+</a></td>
+</tr></tbody></table>
+
+#### Bronze Sponsor
+
+<table><tbody><tr>
+<td><a href="https://www.stellarhosted.com/bookstack/" target="_blank">
+ <img width="280" src="https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/BookStackApp/website/main/static/images/sponsors/stellarhosted.png" alt="Stellar Hosted">
+</a></td>
+</tr></tbody></table>
+
+## 🛣️ Road Map
+
+Below is a high-level road map view for BookStack to provide a sense of direction of where the project is going. This can change at any point and does not reflect many features and improvements that will also be included as part of the journey along this road map. For more granular detail of what will be included in upcoming releases you can review the project milestones as defined in the "Release Process" section below.
+
+- **Platform REST API** *(Base Implemented, In review and roll-out)*
+ - *A REST API covering, at minimum, control of core content models (Books, Chapters, Pages) for automation and platform extension.*
+- **Editor Alignment & Review**
+ - *Review the page editors with goal of achieving increased interoperability & feature parity while also considering collaborative editing potential.*
+- **Permission System Review**
+ - *Improvement in how permissions are applied and a review of the efficiency of the permission & roles system.*
+- **Installation & Deployment Process Revamp**
+ - *Creation of a streamlined & secure process for users to deploy & update BookStack with reduced development requirements (No git or composer requirement).*
+
+## 🚀 Release Versioning & Process
+
+BookStack releases are each assigned a date-based version number in the format `v<year>.<month>[.<optional_patch_number>]`. For example:
+
+- `v20.12` - New feature released launched during December 2020.
+- `v21.06.2` - Second patch release upon the June 2021 feature release.
+
+Patch releases are generally fairly minor, primarily intended for fixes and therefore is fairly unlikely to cause breakages upon update.
+Feature releases are generally larger, bringing new features in addition to fixes and enhancements. These releases have a greater chance of introducing breaking changes upon update, so it's worth checking for any notes in the [update guide](https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/updates/).
+
+Each BookStack release will have a [milestone](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/milestones) created with issues & pull requests assigned to it to define what will be in that release. Milestones are built up then worked through until complete at which point, after some testing and documentation updates, the release will be deployed.
+
+Feature releases, and some patch releases, will be accompanied by a post on the [BookStack blog](https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/) which will provide additional detail on features, changes & updates otherwise the [GitHub release page](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/releases) will show a list of changes. You can sign up to be alerted to new BookStack blogs posts (once per week maximum) [at this link](https://updates.bookstackapp.com/signup/bookstack-news-and-updates).
+
+## 🛠️ Development & Testing
+
+All development on BookStack is currently done on the master branch. When it's time for a release the master branch is merged into release with built & minified CSS & JS then tagged at its version. Here are the current development requirements:
+
+* [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) v14.0+
+
+This project uses SASS for CSS development and this is built, along with the JavaScript, using a range of npm scripts. The below npm commands can be used to install the dependencies & run the build tasks:
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