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+## Description of the problem or steps to reproduce
+
+## Specifications
+
+### Version
+You can read VERSION file to get the current Mainflux version.
+
+### Component Commit Hash
+If you are filing and issue for a component, then it would be great to provide us
+the component latest commit hash. You can use `<mainflux-component> --version`
+(e.g. `mainflux-core --version`) to get the component commit hash.
+
+Commit hash: