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 NEWS
 ====
 
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-0.5.7 (to be announced) "semantic density"
-------------------------------------------
+---------------------------------------
+0.5.8 (2017-09-23) "branching parabola"
+---------------------------------------
+A couple of fixes for serious old bugs have accummulated in the maint
+branch since paraslash-0.5.7 was released nine months ago. So here
+is another 0.5.x release. As usual, all commits in the maint branch
+have been merged into master, so the upcoming paraslash-0.6.1 also
+contains them. For details see the git log.
+
+Downloads:
+[tarball](./releases/paraslash-0.5.8.tar.bz2),
+[signature](./releases/paraslash-0.5.8.tar.bz2.asc)
+
+-------------------------------------
+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
+command and the new options to the ls command.
+
 - Speedup of the base64 decoder.
 - One of the two source browsers has been removed from the web pages.
   The doxygen API reference still contains an HTML version of each
@@ -19,7 +37,9 @@ NEWS
 - 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"