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 == Preface
 Thank you for downloading this release of Apache OpenJPA.
 
-Apache OpenJPA is an implementation of the Java Persistence API specification.
+Apache OpenJPA is an implementation of the Jakarta Persistence API 3.0 specification.
 
 
 == License