[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag faq/general faq/_important]] [[!meta title="When will the Hurd be released?"]] GNU Hurd 0.8 has been [[released on 2016-05-18|news/2016-05-18-releases]], along with GNU Mach 1.7, and GNU MIG 1.7. Read about the [[Hurd's status|hurd/status]]. > OK, but when will it be finished? Well, is the Linux kernel considered to be really "finished"? Hurd 0.8 does work, but of course it can still become better -- beginning to [[contribute|contributing]] and [[joining us|how_many_developers]] is the best way for you to help achieve that. :-)