Version Hiding for Server and Application Security
One of the easiest ways to make a server or application more secure it to reduce the publicly accessible information.
The above link describes how the versions can be suppressed in the HTTP headers to make it more difficult for people to identify the version of server software you are running, and the version of PHP.
This same principle should be used with applications. Any tag in the HTML that exposes the version should be suppressed.
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