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@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Tell your users that you adhere to the Conventional Commits specification:
 
 `standard-version` is different because it handles the versioning, changelog generation, and git tagging for you **without** automatic pushing (to GitHub) or publishing (to an npm registry). Use of `standard-version` only affects your local git repo - it doesn't affect remote resources at all. After you run `standard-version`, you still have the ability to review things and correct mistakes if you want to.
 
-They are both based on the same foundation of structured commit messages (using [Angular format](https://github.com/bcoe/conventional-changelog-standard/blob/master/convention.md)), but `standard-version` is a good choice for folks who are not yet comfortable letting publishes go out automatically. In this way, you can view `standard-version` as an incremental step to adopting `semantic-release`.
+They are both based on the same foundation of structured commit messages, but `standard-version` is a good choice for folks who are not yet comfortable letting publishes go out automatically. In this way, you can view `standard-version` as an incremental step to adopting `semantic-release`.
 
 We think they are both fantastic tools, and we encourage folks to use `semantic-release` instead of `standard-version` if it makes sense for them.