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 	  <a href="http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2017-February/185228.html">announcement</a>
 	  and go to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a> to pick up the
 	  <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2017.02.tar.bz2">2017.02 release</a>.</p>
+
+	  <p>Notice that this is a long term support release which will be
+	  supported with security and other important fixes until February 2018.</p>
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