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 pip install case-utils
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-Users who wish to install from PyPI should be aware that while CASE's ontology is in its pre-1.0.0 release state, backwards-incompatible ontology changes may occur.  This may manifest as [`case_validate`](#case_validate) reporting data review errors after installing an updated `case_utils` version.  Users may wish to pin `case_utils` within any dependent code bases to be less than the next unreleased SEMVER-minor version.  (E.g. if `case_utils` version `0.8.0` is currently available, a newly adopting project might wish to track `case_utils<0.9.0` among its dependencies.)
+Users who wish to install from PyPI should be aware that though CASE's ontology is in its post-1.0.0 release state, this Python project is in a pre-1.0.0 release state.  Backwards-incompatible ontology changes will only occur in accordance with [SEMVER](https://semver.org/).  This Python project is not yet committed to its API, and backwards-incompatiable changes may occur.  They are likely to occur with advance notice.
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+Users may wish to pin `case-utils` within any dependent code bases to be less than the next unreleased SEMVER-minor version.  (E.g. if `case-utils` version `0.14.0` is currently available, a newly adopting project might wish to track `case-utils<0.15.0` among its dependencies.)
 
 
 ### Installing from source