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 NEWS
 ====
 
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-0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density"
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+------------------------------------
+0.6.0 (to be announced) "fuzzy flux"
+------------------------------------
+- Support for Mac OS X has been removed.
+- On Linux systems, glibc-2.17 or newer is required to build the
+  source tree.
+- Support for RSA public keys in ASN format (as generated by openssl
+  genrsa) has been removed. These keys have been deprecated since
+  2011, so users should have long switched to keys generated with
+  ssh-keygen(1).
+- If libgcrypt is used as the crypto library, we now require version
+  1.5.0 (released in 2011) or later.
+- The insecure RC4 stream cipher has been removed. It was superseded
+  by aes_ctr128 three years ago but the RC4 code had been kept for
+  backwards compatibility.
+- On Linux, abstract unix domain sockets are used unconditionally.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2),
+
+-------------------------------------
+0.5.7 (2016-12-31) "semantic density"
+-------------------------------------
 
 Mostly a bug fix release, and a bunch of internal improvements.
 The only user-visible changes are the sanity checks for the touch
@@ -24,7 +44,9 @@ command and the new options to the ls command.
 - New section on contributing for the user manual.
 - Major simplification of the error subsystem.
 
-Download: [tarball](./releases/paraslash-git.tar.bz2)
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.7.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.7.tar.bz2.asc)
 
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 0.4.14 (2016-12-31) "branching oscillation"