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-We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.7.2.  This is a
-'technology preview' for the upcoming Guile 1.8.  It can be found
-here:
+We are pleased to announce the release of Guile 1.8.0.  It can be
+found here:
 
-    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.7.2.tar.gz
+    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.0.tar.gz
 
-Its MD5 checksum is
+Its SHA1 checksum is
 
-    XXX  guile-1.7.2.tar.gz
+    22462680feeda1e5400195c01dee666162503d66  guile-1.8.0.tar.gz
 
-This version is guaranteed to contain serious bugs, and the publically
-visible interfaces will almost certainly change before 1.8 is
-released.  The 1.7 releases might be termed "selected snapshots".
+We already know about some issues with 1.8.0, please check the mailing
+lists:
 
-Specifically, libguile has not yet been reviewed for thread-safeness.
+    http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/mail/mail.html
 
-We are releasing it anyway to start testing the new features, and to
-get feedback about how well Guile actually behaves in a multi-threaded
-setting.
+The NEWS file is quite long.  Here are the most interesting entries:
 
-The shared library major versions have been bumped compared to the 1.6
-series, but they will not be bumped on binary incompatible changes
-within the 1.7 series.
+  Changes since 1.6:
 
+  * Guile is now licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License.
 
-The NEWS file is quite long.  Here are the most interesting entries:
+  * The manual is now licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License.
+
+  * We now use GNU MP for bignums.
 
-  Changes since 1.7.1:
+  * 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 explicitely.
+    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.