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 The DevStack master branch generally points to trunk versions of OpenStack
 components.  For older, stable versions, look for branches named
 stable/[release] in the DevStack repo.  For example, you can do the
-following to create a juno OpenStack cloud:
+following to create a Newton OpenStack cloud:
 
-    git checkout stable/juno
+    git checkout stable/newton
     ./stack.sh
 
 You can also pick specific OpenStack project releases by setting the appropriate