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# Welcome
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**SkyWalking 6 documents and codes are still on building, Status: WIP. Of course, we welcome everyone to join us.**
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From here you can learn all about **SkyWalking**’s architecture, how to deploy and use SkyWalking, even develop based on SkyWalking.
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- [Concepts and Designs](en/concepts-and-designs/README.md). Concepts and designs explain the most important core ideas about
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SkyWalking. You can learn from here if you want to understand what is going on under our cool features and visualization.
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- [Setup](en/setup/README.md). Setup contains guides for installing SkyWalking in different scenarios. As a platform, it provides
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several ways to provide observability, including monitoring and alarm of course.
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- [Guides](en/guides/README.md). Guides are for PPMC, committer or new contributor. At here, you can know how to develop, release
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and what is ongoing of the community.
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- [Protocols](en/protocols/README.md). Protocols show the communication ways between agents/probes and backend. Anyone, interested
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in uplink telemetry data, definitely should read this.
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- [FAQs](en/FAQ/README.md). Include a manifest, including already known setup problems, secondary developments experiments. When
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you are facing a problem, check here first.
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In addition, you might find these links interesting:
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- The latest and old releases are all available at [Apache SkyWalking release page](http://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/). The change logs are [here](../CHANGES.md).
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- You can find the speaking schedules at Conf, online videos and articles about SkyWalking in [Community resource catalog](https://github.com/OpenSkywalking/Community).
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Also, if you have some related to us, welcome to submit a pull request to add.
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- We’re always looking for help improving our documentation and codes, so please don’t hesitate to [file an issue](https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/issues/new)
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if you see some problem.
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Or better yet, submit your own contributions through pull request to help make them better.
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### 5.x releases
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5.x is still supported by SkyWalking community, and the agent-backend protocol is compatible with 6.x.
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You can go to [5.x branch](https://github.com/apache/incubator-skywalking/tree/5.x).
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At there, you have everything you need.
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