diff --git a/ADOPTERS.md b/ADOPTERS.md
index 5f1d49b07..196dc1254 100644
--- a/ADOPTERS.md
+++ b/ADOPTERS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,24 @@
-# Adopters
+# LoxiLB Adopters
-This is a list of companies that have adopted LoxiLB, feel free to open a Pull-Request to get yours listed.
+This list captures the set of organizations that are using LoxiLB within their environments
+(in production or at stages of R&D). If you are an adopter of LoxiLB and not yet on this
+list, we encourage you to add your organization here as well!
-## Adopters list (alphabetically)
+The goal for this list is to be the complete and authoritative source for the entire community of
+LoxiLB adopters, and give inspiration to others that are earlier in their LoxiLB journey.
+
+Contributing to this list is a small effort that has a **big impact** to the project's growth,
+maturity, and momentum. Thank you to all adopters and contributors of the LoxiLB project!
+Feel free to edit this file and open a Pull-Request to get your organization listed.
+
+## Adopters (in alphabetical order)
+
+| Organization | Contact/Reference | Status | Description of Use |
+| ------------ | ------- | ------| ------------------ |
+| [BPFire](http://www.firebeeos.com/) | @vincentmli |  | eBPF based “BPFire” Distro |
+| [Friedrich-Alexander-Universität](https://www.fau.de/)| [Research Paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00078) |  | eBPF Runtime Security |
+| [KETI](https://www.keti.re.kr/main/main.php) | [JinWon Park](mailto:jwpark9010@keti.re.kr?subject=LoxiLB) |  | Cloud-native LB for on-prem MLOps Deployment |
+| [Kookmin University](https://english.kookmin.ac.kr/) | *TBD* |  | Cloud-native LB for on-prem ORAN Testbed |
+| [Oracle OCI](https://www.oracle.com/) | @esirame |  | Telco cloud-native LB/Ingress for N2 interface |
+| [Samsung](https://upbound.io) | [Conference Presentation](https://blog.naver.com/PostView.naver?blogId=n_cloudplatform&logNo=223518118906&navType=by) |  | Telco cloud-native LB/Ingress for N2/N4 interface |
+| [Viettel](https://vietteltelecom.vn/) | @chuhuutiennam |  | SCP for cloud-native telco deployments|
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
index 9dbf90edc..427b122af 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS.md
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
# LoxiLB Maintainers
-This is the list of LoxiLB project Maintainers.
+
+This is the current list of LoxiLB project Maintainers.
| | Name | Company |
|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------:|:------------:|
-| 
| [PacketCrunch](https://github.com/PacketCrunch) | Netlox |
| 
| [UltraInstinct14](https://github.com/UltraInstinct14) | Netlox |
| 
| [Trekkie](https://github.com/TrekkieCoder) | Netlox |
| 
| [Nikhil Malik](https://github.com/nik-netlox) | Netlox |
| 
| [BackGuyn Jung](https://github.com/backguynn) | Netlox |
| 
| [Inho Gog](https://github.com/inhogog2) | Netlox |
-| 
| [SeokHwan Kong](https://github.com/NLX-SeokHwanKong) | Netlox |
+
+If any person or an organization wants to become a maintainer of LoxiLB, please feel free to go through LoxiLB [Governance Guide](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilb/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md) for further details.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8798f3187..787bab3ee 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Telco-cloud requires load-balancing and communication across various interfaces/
- [How-To : Access end-points outside K8s](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilbdocs/blob/main/docs/ext-ep.md)
- [How-To : Deploy multi-server K3s HA with loxilb](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilbdocs/blob/main/docs/k3s-multi-master.md)
- [How-To : Deploy loxilb with multi-AZ HA support in AWS](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilbdocs/blob/main/docs/aws-multi-az.md)
+- [How-To : Deploy loxilb with multi-cloud HA support](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilbdocs/blob/main/docs/multi-cloud-ha.md)
- [How-To : Deploy loxilb with ingress-nginx](https://github.com/loxilb-io/loxilbdocs/blob/main/docs/loxilb-nginx-ingress.md)
## Knowledge-Base
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 48359faee..d717bd1b3 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import (
ln "github.com/loxilb-io/loxilb/pkg/loxinet"
)
-var version string = "0.9.5-beta"
+var version string = "0.9.6-beta"
var buildInfo string = ""
func main() {