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+We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.8.0.  It can be
+found here:
+
+    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.0.tar.gz
+
+Its SHA1 checksum is
+
+    22462680feeda1e5400195c01dee666162503d66  guile-1.8.0.tar.gz
+
+We already know about some issues with 1.8.0, please check the mailing
+lists:
+
+    http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/mail/mail.html
+
+The NEWS file is quite long.  Here are the most interesting entries:
+
+  Changes since 1.6:
+
+  * Guile is now licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License.
+
+  * The manual is now licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License.
+
+  * We now use GNU MP for bignums.
+
+  * We now have exact rationals, such as 1/3.
+
+  * We now use native POSIX threads for real concurrent threads.
+
+  * There is a new way to initalize Guile that allows one to use Guile
+    from threads that have not been created by Guile.
+
+  * Mutexes and condition variables are now always fair.  A recursive
+    mutex must be requested explicitly.
+
+  * The low-level thread API has been removed.
+
+  * There is now support for copy-on-write substrings and
+    mutation-sharing substrings.
+
+  * A new family of functions for converting between C values and
+    Scheme values has been added that is future-proof and thread-safe.
+
+  * The INUM macros like SCM_MAKINUM have been deprecated.
+
+  * The macros SCM_STRINGP, SCM_STRING_CHARS, SCM_STRING_LENGTH,
+    SCM_SYMBOL_CHARS, and SCM_SYMBOL_LENGTH have been deprecated.
+
+  * There is a new way to deal with non-local exits and re-entries in
+    C code, which is nicer than scm_internal_dynamic_wind.
+
+  * There are new malloc-like functions that work better than
+    scm_must_malloc, etc.
+
+  * There is a new way to access all kinds of vectors and arrays from
+    C that is efficient and thread-safe.
+
+  * The concept of dynamic roots has been factored into continuation
+    barriers and dynamic states.
+
+See NEWS and the manual for more details.