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 	    <h3>Latest News</h3>
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-	      <strong>2005-11-21:</strong> Feature freeze for sane-backends
+	      <strong>2005-12-11:</strong> Code 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