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 There is some example code that demonstrates usage of the library in `client.go`. This will connect to freenode and join `#go-nuts` by default, so be careful ;-)
 
+Please note: this branch has been feature-frozen for a while. Check out master
+for some interesting (but not backwards-compatible) changes that will become
+the new go1 branch when they're stable.
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 ### Using the framework
 
 Synopsis: