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Signed-off-by: Prabhu Subramanian <[email protected]>

Author: prabhu

README.md

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 When used with plugins, cdxgen could generate an SBoM for Linux docker images and even VMs running Linux or Windows operating system.
 
+NOTE:
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+CycloneDX 1.5 specification is brand new and unsupported by many downstream tools. Use version 8.6.0 for 1.4 compatibility.
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 ## Supported languages and package format
 
 | Language/Platform               | Package format                                                                                          | Transitive dependencies                                                                           |
@@ -73,12 +77,17 @@ For go, `go mod why` command is used to identify required packages. For php, com
 
 ```shell
 sudo npm install -g @cyclonedx/cdxgen
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+# For CycloneDX 1.4 compatibility use version 8.6.0
+sudo npm install -g @cyclonedx/[email protected]
 ```
 
 You can also use the cdxgen container image
 
 ```bash
 docker run --rm -v /tmp:/tmp -v $(pwd):/app:rw -t ghcr.io/cyclonedx/cdxgen -r /app -o /app/bom.json
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+docker run --rm -v /tmp:/tmp -v $(pwd):/app:rw -t ghcr.io/cyclonedx/cdxgen:v8.6.0 -r /app -o /app/bom.json
 ```
 
 ## Getting Help