diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ to start a discussion first or have already created an issue, once a pull reques
 created, we will close the issue as superseded by the pull request, and the discussion
 about the issue will continue under the pull request.
 
-1. Always check out the `master` branch and submit pull requests against it
+1. Always check out the `main` branch and submit pull requests against it
 (for target version see [settings.gradle](settings.gradle)).
 Backports to prior versions will be considered on a case-by-case basis and reflected as
 the fix version in the issue tracker.