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index 9f7ba5d18..df1812f71 100644
--- a/composer.json
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@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
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         "drupal/acquia_cms_dam": "dev-develop",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index af3e58f6d..5f9d5c3de 100644
--- a/composer.lock
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@@ -230,6 +230,72 @@
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             "time": "2023-02-28T18:45:28+00:00"
         },
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+                "reference": "3b5734971353d894888e1ebfc7db6c6aa38a9346",
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+                "acquia/blt": "<14"
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+                "phpro/grumphp-shim": "^2.2",
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^9 || ^10"
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+                "class": "Acquia\\Drupal\\RecommendedSettings\\Plugin"
+            },
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+                    "Acquia\\Drupal\\RecommendedSettings\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "GPL-2.0-only"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Vishal Khode",
+                    "email": "vishal.khode@acquia.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "The composer plugin for adding drupal-recommended-settings for Acquia Cloud.",
+            "keywords": [
+                "acquia",
+                "drupal",
+                "drupal-recommended-settings"
+            ],
+            "support": {
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+                "issues": "https://github.com/acquia/drupal-recommended-settings/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/acquia/drupal-recommended-settings/tree/1.0.0"
+            },
+            "time": "2024-03-27T10:56:42+00:00"
+        },
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             "name": "acquia/http-hmac-php",
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@@ -9562,6 +9628,51 @@
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+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
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+                "symfony/yaml": "^4 || ^5 || ^6"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
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+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^8.0 || ^9",
+                "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^2.7 || ^3.3"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Grasmash\\YamlExpander\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Matthew Grasmick"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Expands internal property references in a yaml file.",
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/grasmash/yaml-expander/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/grasmash/yaml-expander/tree/3.0.2"
+            },
+            "time": "2022-05-10T13:29:17+00:00"
+        },
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             "version": "7.8.1",
@@ -10715,6 +10826,63 @@
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             "time": "2024-03-23T07:42:40+00:00"
         },
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+            "version": "1.8.0",
+            "source": {
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+                "url": "https://github.com/loophp/phposinfo.git",
+                "reference": "9faccbfbf5364fd34fbc230961fa6fc51cc66b8f"
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+                "reference": "9faccbfbf5364fd34fbc230961fa6fc51cc66b8f",
+                "shasum": ""
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+                "php": "^8"
+            },
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+                "ext-pcov": "*",
+                "friends-of-phpspec/phpspec-code-coverage": "^6",
+                "infection/infection": "^0.26",
+                "infection/phpspec-adapter": "^0.2.0",
+                "phpspec/phpspec": "^7"
+            },
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+                    "loophp\\phposinfo\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Pol Dellaiera",
+                    "email": "pol.dellaiera@protonmail.com"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Try to guess the host operating system.",
+            "keywords": [
+                "operating system detection"
+            ],
+            "support": {
+                "issues": "https://github.com/loophp/phposinfo/issues",
+                "source": "https://github.com/loophp/phposinfo"
+            },
+            "funding": [
+                {
+                    "url": "https://github.com/drupol",
+                    "type": "github"
+                }
+            ],
+            "time": "2022-12-20T20:21:10+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "maennchen/zipstream-php",
             "version": "3.1.0",
diff --git a/salt.txt b/salt.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f2de7d6c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/salt.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
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