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 <h3 id="news">News</h3>
 
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+  <dt><em>28 January 2005</em>,
+      Expat pre-release snapshot made available.
+    </dt>
+  <dd>
+    <p>We've posted a <a href=
+    "http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-01-28.tar.gz" >pre-release
+    distribution snapshot</a> of the code currently in CVS on
+    libexpat.org.  Please try this out and report any problems you
+    have.  We'd like to get a release out soon.</p>
+    <p>The coming release will either be 1.95.9 or 2.0, depending
+    primarily on the response to this snapshot.  If we do decide to
+    make this 1.95.9, then we'll try to follow up with 2.0 in about a
+    month.</p>
+    </dd>
   <dt><em>23 July 2004</em>,
       Expat 1.95.8 released.
     </dt>