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 Matrix Specification
 ====================
 
+.. Note that this file is specifically unversioned because we don't want to
+.. have to add Yet Another version number, and the commentary on what specs we
+.. have should hopefully not get complex enough that we need to worry about
+.. versioning it.
+
 This specification has been generated from
 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc using
 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/master/scripts/gendoc.py as of
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 .. contents:: Table of Contents
 .. sectnum::
 
+.. Note that this file is specifically unversioned because we don't want to
+.. have to add Yet Another version number, and the commentary on what specs we
+.. have should hopefully not get complex enough that we need to worry about
+.. versioning it.
+
 Introduction
 ------------
 .. WARNING::