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 - Static graph: develop branch
 
 **Recent updates**
+- 2021.2.8 Release PaddleOCRv2.0(branch release/2.0) and set as default branch.
 - 2021.1.21 update more than 25+ multilingual recognition models [models list](./doc/doc_en/models_list_en.md), including：English, Chinese, German, French, Japanese，Spanish，Portuguese Russia Arabic and so on.  Models for more languages will continue to be updated [Develop Plan](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/issues/1048).
 - 2020.12.15 update Data synthesis tool, i.e., [Style-Text](./StyleText/README.md)，easy to synthesize a large number of images which are similar to the target scene image.
 - 2020.11.25 Update a new data annotation tool, i.e., [PPOCRLabel](./PPOCRLabel/README.md), which is helpful to improve the labeling efficiency. Moreover, the labeling results can be used in training of the PP-OCR system directly.