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@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ https://docs.opnsense.org/development/architecture.html
 Our aim is to gradually evolve to a new codebase instead of using a
 big bang approach into something new.
 
+<a href="https://scan.coverity.com/projects/opnsense-core">
+  <img alt="Coverity Scan Build Status"
+       src="https://scan.coverity.com/projects/26974/badge.svg"/>
+</a>
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