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 <p>
 
 <ul>
+  <li><b>31 August 2009 -- 2009.08 released</b>
+
+    <p>The stable 2009.08 release is out - Thanks to everyone
+    contributing and testing the release candidates. See the
+    <a href="http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2009-August/029018.html">announcement</a>
+    or <a href="http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2009.08">CHANGES</a>
+    for more details, and go to the <a href="/downloads/">downloads page</a>
+    to pick up the <a href="/downloads/buildroot-2009.08.tar.bz2">2009.08
+    release</a>.</p>
+
   <li><b>26 August 2009 -- 2009.08-rc3 released</b>
     <p>A number of bugfixes have been added to the tree since RC2
     (especially thanks to Thomas Petazzoni) - See the <a