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 	    <h3>Latest News</h3>
+	    <p>
+	      <strong>2005-11-21:</strong> Feature freeze for sane-backends
+	      1.0.17 is active. Please test the <a
+	      href="http://www.sane-project.org/snapshots/">current
+	      snapshots</a> and report any problems. Release is planned for
+	      2005-12-11.
+	    </p>
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 	      <strong>2005-09-18:</strong> sane-frontends 1.0.14 has been
 	      released and contains quite some bug fixes and improvements for