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 <img src="https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/wiki/images/cloudbeaver-logo.png" width="250"/>
 
 Cloud Database Manager - Community Edition.  
-CloudBeaver is a web server which provides rich web interface. Server itself is a Java application, web part is written on TypeScript and React.  
+CloudBeaver is a web server that provides a rich web interface. The server itself is a Java application, and the web part is written in TypeScript and React.  
 It is free to use and open-source (licensed under [Apache 2](https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/blob/devel/LICENSE) license).  
-See out [WIKI](https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/wiki) for more details.  
+See our [WIKI](https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/wiki) for more details. 
 
 ![](https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/wiki/images/demo_screenshot_1.png)
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ See out [WIKI](https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/wiki) for more details.
 
 ## Demo server
 
-You can see live demo of CloudBeaver here: https://demo.cloudbeaver.io  
+You can see a live demo of CloudBeaver here: https://demo.cloudbeaver.io  
 
 [Database access instructions](https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver/wiki/Demo-Server)
 
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 ### 24.2.0. 2024-09-02
 ### Changes since 24.1.0:
 - General:
-  -    French language support was added (thanks to @matthieukhl)
+  -    French language support was added (thanks to [matthieukhl](https://github.com/matthieukhl))
   -    Added the ability to close editor tabs with the middle mouse button
   -    Added right-click support to open the context menu in the Metadata Editor
   -    The list of forbidden characters for naming and renaming resource manager files has been updated, and now it includes the following characters: / : " \ ' <> | ? *
@@ -45,9 +45,15 @@ You can see live demo of CloudBeaver here: https://demo.cloudbeaver.io
 - Administration:
   -    Redesigned administration navigation panel - now it is more compact and clear
   -    Added the ability to change the default commit mode for each connection separately
-  -    Added the ability to configure the server property rootURI parameter (thanks to @arioko)
+  -    Added the ability to configure the server property rootURI parameter (thanks to [arioko](https://github.com/arioko))
 - Databases:
   -    Added the "Keep alive" setting for Db2 LUW and IMB i, Apache Kyuubi, Clickhouse, Firebird, and Trino
   -    Updated Firebird driver to version 5.0.4
-  -    DDL generation for Oracle Tablespaces was added (thanks to @pandya09)
+  -    DDL generation for Oracle Tablespaces was added (thanks to [pandya09](https://github.com/pandya09))
 
+## Contribution
+As a community-driven open-source project, we warmly welcome contributions through GitHub pull requests. 
+
+[We are happy to reward](https://dbeaver.com/help-beaver/) our most active contributors every major sprint.
+The most significant contribution to our code for the major release 24.2.0 was made by:
+1. [matthieukhl](https://github.com/matthieukhl)