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+This directory contains scripts that we used to rebuild historic releases to webassembly.
+The rebuild took place at the time of Solidity version 0.6.1 and was used to rebuild all versions from 0.3.6 to 0.6.1.
+The scripts are not actively tested or maintained, but we keep them for future reference in case we want to rebuild
+historic releases again at a later point.