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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ OpenShift cluster.
 All contributions are welcome - oc uses the Apache 2 license and does not require
 any contributor agreement to submit patches.  Please open issues for any bugs
 or problems you encounter, ask questions on the OpenShift IRC channel
-(#openshift-dev on freenode), or get involved in the [kubectl](/~https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl)
+(#openshift-dev on Libera Chat), or get involved in the [kubectl](/~https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl)
 and [kubernetes project](/~https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes) at the container
 runtime layer.