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 <H1>News</H1>
 
 
+<h2>September 27, 2010</h2>
+
+<p>
+<a href="relnotes-7.9.0.html">Mesa 7.9.0-rc1</a> is released.  This is a
+release candidate for the 7.9 development release.
+</p>
+
+
 <h2>June 16, 2010</h2>
 
 <p>