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+<article>
+  <h3>
+    <a name="gnunet-0.11.7-release">2019-XX-XX: GNUnet 0.11.7 released</a>
+  </h3>
+  <p>
+    We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.11.7.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    This is a bugfix release for 0.11.6, fixing a lot of
+    minor bugs, improving stability and code quality. Further, win32 support
+    was removed for reasons you may read below.
+    In this release, we again improved the webpage in general and updated our
+    documentation.
+
+    <i>As always:</i>
+    In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still <b>a large
+    number of known open issues</b> in particular with respect to ease of use,
+    but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users.
+    Also, the nascent network is tiny (about 200 peers) and thus unlikely to
+    provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting
+    information.  As a result, the 0.11.7 release is still <b>only suitable
+    for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance</b>.
+  </p>
+  <h4>Download links</h4>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-gtk-0.11.7.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz</a></li>
+    <li><a href="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig">http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnunet/gnunet-fuse-0.11.0.tar.gz.sig</a></li>
+  </ul>
+  <p>
+    gnunet-fuse was not released again, as there were no
+    changes and the 0.11.0 versions are expected to continue to work fine
+    with gnunet-0.11.7.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    Note that due to mirror synchronization, not all links might be functional
+    early after the release. For direct access try <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnunet/</a>
+  </p>
+  <h4>Noteworthy changes in 0.11.7 (since 0.11.6)</h4>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      win32 and mingw support were dropped, which resulted in a significant number of lines of
+      code to be gone. The code has been unmaintained in our code base
+      for many years and there are no known users. For details and further reasons refer to the discussion
+      <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2019-09/msg00002.html">in our archives</a>.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Removal of plibc, win32 and mingw support means you can now compile gnunet without requiring a Cxx compiler
+      (you just need a C compiler).
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+  <h4>Known Issues</h4>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      There are known major design issues in the TRANSPORT, ATS and CORE subsystems
+      which will need to be addressed in the future to achieve acceptable usability,
+      performance and security.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      There are known moderate implementation limitations in CADET that
+      negatively impact performance.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      There are known moderate design issues in FS that also impact
+      usability and performance.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      There are minor implementation limitations in SET that create
+      unnecessary attack surface for availability.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      The RPS subsystem remains experimental.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Some high-level tests in the test-suite fail non-deterministically due to
+      the low-level TRANSPORT issues.
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+  <p>
+    In addition to this list, you may also want to consult our bug tracker
+    at <a href="https://bugs.gnunet.org/">bugs.gnunet.org</a> which lists
+    about 190 more specific issues.
+  </p>
+
+  <h4>Thanks</h4>
+  <p>
+    This release was the work of many people. The following people
+    contributed code and were thus easily identified:
+    Martin Schanzenbach, Julius B&uuml;nger, ng0, Christian Grothoff, Alexia Pagkopoulou, rexxnor, xrs, lurchi and t3sserakt.
+  </p>
+</article>