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 * Pavel Denisov
 * Mikael Engström
 * Zac Connelly
+* Sarath Kumar Somana
 
 Translators
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+# Security
+We take the security of Wagtail, and related packages we maintain, seriously. If you have found a security issue with any of our projects please email us at security@wagtail.io so we can work together to find and patch the issue. We appreciate responsible disclosure with any security related issues, so please contact us first before creating a Github issue.
+
+If you want to send an encrypted email (optional), the public key ID for security@wagtail.io is 0x6ba1e1a86e0f8ce8, and this public key is available from most commonly-used keyservers.