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+author: matmair
+title: Celebrating 5k Stars on GitHub!
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+## Celebrating 5k Stars on GitHub!
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+The team is rejoiced to acknowledge that the project has now reached 5.000 Stars on GitHub. This and the nearly 1k forks are a reminder of how widely InvenTree has spread in recent years.
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+We are getting the last setup-improvements and a few smaller features ready to publish the 1.0 release to signify the stability that fellow contributors and users have been experiencing since 2017.
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+We are always [looking for translators / proofreaders](https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree/discussions/9073).
+Using InvenTree and proud to share? [Submit](https://github.com/inventree/inventree-website/discussions/239) to being featured on the website.