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 	    <h3>Latest News</h3>
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-	      <strong>2017-05-22:</strong> 
-<a href="source.html">SANE-Backends-1.0.27</a> (see Note 1) has been released:
+	      <strong>2019-07-31:</strong>
+<a href="source.html">SANE-Backends-1.0.28</a> has been released:
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-	    <ul>
-              <li>Significant enhancements to canon_dr, epjitsu, epsonds, fujitsu, genesys, hp3500, pixma and xerox-mfp backends.</li>
-              <li>Minor updates, bugfixes or scanners added in several backends.</li>
-              <li>30+ new scanner models supported.</li>
-              <li>Made libusb-1.0 the default for USB support (see Note 2).</li>
-              <li>Switched code from C90 to C99 (Thanks to Volker Diels-Grabsch).</li>
-              <li>Updated Linux USB3 workaround (see Note 3).</li>
-              <li>Documentation and translation updates.</li>
-              <li>Bugfixes (Avahi, threading, USB, ICC/PNG/JPEG, etc).</li>
-              <li>Reduced compiler warnings, improved code (see Note 4).</li>
+            <ul>
+              <li>Backends</li>
+              <ul>
+                <li>adds a <tt>ricoh2</tt> backend</li>
+                <li>adds support for 40+ new scanner models</li>
+                <li>significantly changes <tt>canon_dr</tt>, <tt>fujitsu</tt>, <tt>genesys</tt>, <tt>gt68xx</tt>, <tt>hp5590</tt> and, <tt>pixma</tt> backends<li>
+                <li>fixes bugs in <tt>as6e</tt>, <tt>avision</tt>, <tt>mustek</tt> and <tt>plustek</tt> backends</li>
+                <li>fixes scores of compiler warnings</li>
+              </ul>
+              <li>Frontends</li>
+              <ul>
+                <li>adds, changes and removes options for <tt>saned</tt> (see <tt>man 8 saned</tt> for details)</li>
+                <li>adds: <tt>-l</tt> (listen), <tt>-D</tt> (daemonize), <tt>-o</tt> (once), <tt>-e</tt> (stderr), <tt>-u</tt> (user)</li>
+                <li>removes: <tt>-s</tt> (syslog).  Use <tt>-a -d level -o -f</tt> for the old behavior</li>
+                <li>changes: <tt>-d</tt> (debug).  Use <tt>-a -d level -o -f -e</tt> for the old behavior</li>
+                <li><tt>saned</tt> now cancels scans if the data connections appears to have gone away (after 4 seconds by default, configurable in <tt>saned.conf</tt>)</li>
+                <li>adds <tt>--output-file</tt> option to <tt>scanimage</tt></li>
+                <li>adds <tt>--help</tt> option to <tt>scan-find-scanner</tt></li>
+                <li>changes <tt>sane-desc</tt> to create relative hyperlinks</li>
+              </ul>
+              <li>Documentation</li>
+              <ul>
+                <li>adds translations for Catalan, Hebrew and Valencian</li>
+                <li>updates translations for British English, Dutch, German and Ukrainian</li>
+                <li>marks unmaintained backends as such</li>
+                <li>documents USB workaround in <tt>sane-usb</tt> manual page</li>
+              </ul>
+              <li>Build</li>
+              <ul>
+                <li>requires a C++11 compatible compiler for the <tt>genesys</tt> backend</li>
+                <li>requires a JPEG library when building the <tt>pixma</tt> backend</li>
+                <li>fixes unneeded linking when not using preloadable backend support</li>
+                <li>disables pthread support for systems with non-integral <tt>pthread_t</tt> type</li>
+                <li>fixes USB support detection on BeOS and OS/2 at <tt>./configure</tt> time</li>
+                <li>normalizes trailing whitespace in source code files.  If you have local patches that no longer apply, have a look at the whitespace ignoring options of <tt>patch</tt> and <tt>git apply</tt>.</li>
+              </ul>
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-            <p>
-Note 1: There is no 1.0.26 release of sane-backends. That number was
-skipped so that our development version numbers would more clearly be
-an extension of the prior release. This should make packaging a little
-easier for our downstream users.
-            </p>
-            <p>
-Note 2: On all systems, the --enable-libusb* flags are now ignored.
-Instead, the --with-usb and --without-usb flags now control support.
-When neither is given, USB support will be enabled if possible and
-disabled otherwise.  If --with-usb is requested but not possible,
-./configure will fail.  There is no support to prefer libusb-0.1 over
-libusb-1.0.  When libusb-1.0 is not found, libusb-0.1 will be tried.
-            </p>
-            <p>
-Note 3: The Linux USB3 workaround which was added in version 1.0.25 is
-now disabled by default. If you have difficulty using a scanner which
-previously worked, or intermittent scanner availability, try setting
-the new environment variable SANE_USB_WORKAROUND=1 before starting
-your frontend.
-            </p>
-            <p>
-Note 4: A special thanks goes to Olaf Meeuwissen for picking up the
-janitorial duties in sane-backends. He has found and fixed a large
-number of long-standing bugs, curated our bug tracker, improved our
-build scripts and docs, and provided user support. Thank you Olaf!
-            </p>
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