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# Editing Metadata

**note:** The Ant Migration Tool is retired with Spring ’24. The tool continues to function as-is for future API versions but isn’t updated with new functionality and isn’t supported. If Salesforce adds a new feature that is incompatible with Ant, the Ant Migration Tool won't be updated to support it. To manage metadata changes, switch to Salesforce CLI for a modern, supported developer experience.

You can use any UTF-8 text editor to make changes to the files you retrieve.

**note:** Text editors that do not natively support UTF-8 may insert a byte order mark (BOM) at the top of the file, which can cause problems in the XML metadata.