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 	    <h3>Latest News</h3>
 
+	    <p>
+	      <strong>2004-04-10:</strong> sane-backends is in feature freeze
+	      for 1.0.14 now. If no grave bugs are found, code freeze will be at
+	      2004-04-24. The release is planned for 2004-05-01. Please test our
+	      <a
+	      href="ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/sane/">sane-backends-1.0.14-pre1
+	      snapshot</a> and report any bugs you find.
+	    </p>
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 	      <strong>2004-04-09:</strong> A snapshot of sane-frontends 1.0.12
 	      <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1308">is