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+# PMD's sponsors
+
+Many thanks to all our sponsors:
+
+* [Matt Hargett](https://github.com/matthargett) (@matthargett)
+
+If you also want to sponsor PMD, you have two options:
+
+* [Sponsor @pmd on GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/pmd)
+* [PMD - Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/pmd)
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 * {%jdoc !!core::cpd.CPDConfiguration#getCPDRendererFromString(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) %}
 * {%jdoc core::cpd.renderer.CPDRendererAdapter %}
 
+### Financial Contributions
+
+Many thanks to our sponsors:
+
+* [Matt Hargett](https://github.com/matthargett) (@matthargett)
+
 ### External Contributions
 * [#3984](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3984): \[java] Fix AddEmptyString false-negative issue - [@LiGaOg](https://github.com/LiGaOg)
 * [#3988](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/3988): \[java] Modify WhileLoopWithLiteralBoolean to meet the missing case #3455 - [@VoidxHoshi](https://github.com/VoidxHoshi)