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 ### Branches
 
-* [`main`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/main): Latest Capacitor development branch
-* [`6.x`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/6.x): Capacitor 6
+* [`main`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/main): Latest stable Capacitor branch. In general PRs containing bugfixes and non-breaking features should be pointed to `main`. 
+* [`next`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/next): Future major version functionality. Any PRs that contain breaking changes should be pointed to `next`.
+* [`7.x`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/7.x): Capacitor 7
+* [`6.x`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/6.x): Capacitor 6 (not maintained)
 * [`5.x`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/5.x): Capacitor 5 (not maintained)
 * [`4.x`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/4.x): Capacitor 4 (not maintained)
 * [`3.x`](https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/tree/3.x): Capacitor 3 (not maintained)