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 <H3>What's old?</H3>
 <P>
 <DL>
+<DT>16 August 2002</DT>
+<DD>The Hurd sources have stabilized again after a short period in
+which some of the interfaces were changed to prepare support of long
+files.  All relevant filesystem and I/O interfaces have been modified
+to use 64 bit even on 32 bit systems.
+
+In light of the small and patient user base, we decided to drop
+backwards compatibility and replace the interfaces instead extending
+them.  This means that the binaries of the Hurd, the C library, and
+some other programs need to be replaced manually, all at the same
+time, followed by a reboot.
+
+A <A
+HREF="http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files/hurd-upgrade.txt">detailed
+step-by-step procedure how to upgrade</A> Debian GNU/Hurd is available
+on the Debian web site.
+
+People not using a binary distribution need to do a full manual
+bootstrap.  It is recommended to treat this as a cross-compilation
+case.
+<P>
+
+<DT>31 July 2002</DT>
+<DD>A new page has been added to the site, listing <A
+HREF="related-projects.html">related projects</A>.  You can find it at
+the bottom of the menu.
+<P>
+
+<DT>22 June 2002</DT>
+<DD>Various developers of the Hurd and people interested in it will meet
+at the <A HREF="http://lsm.abul.org/">Libre Software Meeting</A> in
+Bordeaux on July 9-13.  Neal Walfield, who is working on porting the
+Hurd to the <A HREF="http://www.l4ka.org/">L4</A> microkernel, will give
+a presentation about L4, the people from
+<A HREF=" http://www.hurdfr.org/">HurdFr</A> will give an
+introduction to the Hurd, and another presentation about the Hurd will
+be given by Marcus Brinkmann.  There might be additional talks about
+the Hurd and related topics.
+</P>
+
+<DT>28 May 2002</DT>
+<DD>We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of
+the Mach kernel, featuring advanced boot script support, support for
+large disks (>= 10GB) and an improved console.
+<P>
+This distribution is only for x86 PC machines.
+Volunteers interested in ports to other architectures are eagerly sought.
+<P>
+More <A HREF="gnumach-download.html#release">information about GNU
+Mach 1.3</A> is available on the GNU Mach web page.
+</P>
+
+<DT>24 May 2002</DT>
+<DD>Finally, the transition from the stdio-based GLibC Application
+Binary Interface (ABI) to the libio-based GLibC ABI has been
+completed.  The Debian GNU/Hurd binary distribution has resumed
+building packages again, and everything should be back to normal.
+Note that we have also switched to <A
+HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/">GCC 3.1</A> as our default
+compiler.  Thanks to everyone who helped in making all this possible,
+and our apologize for any inconvenience we have caused you.
+<P>
+
+<DT>18 May 2002</DT>
+<DD>The "Linux and Unix User Group Heilbronn" (in Germany) is organizing
+a Debian GNU/Hurd <A
+HREF="http://www.luug-hn.org/vortraege.html">installation party</A> at
+25 May 2002. In addition to that, Wolfgang J&auml;hrling will give a talk
+about usage of GNU/Hurd, common problems found in porting programs to
+GNU/Hurd and programming of extensions for the Hurd.  It is a public
+event, so everyone is free to show up and participate.
+<P>
+
+<DT>05 May 2002</DT>
+<DD>We are currently finishing the transition from a stdio-based GNU C
+Library (glibc) to a libio-based one.  This is the result of about
+five months of work we put into getting the system ready and, of
+course, the work that the glibc developers did to make glibc what it
+is.
+<P>
+This change will have various advantages, for example libio has been
+tested more extensively, as it is also used by most GNU/Linux systems
+for some time now.  However, it also means a change in the Application
+Binary Interface (ABI) of glibc, thus you will need to reinstall an
+existing Debian GNU/Hurd system.  Upgrading has not been tested at
+all, so better do not expect it to work.  Also note that you will need
+to get some of the Debian packages from <A
+HREF="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-libio/">alpha.gnu.org</A>.
+Please read the recent mailing list archives for details.
+<P>
+<B>Important Note:</B> As another temporary complication, the current
+installation tarball is available at <A
+HREF="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-staging/">a different place</A>
+than usual.
+<P>
+
+<DT>23 March 2002</DT>
+<DD>Added <A HREF="/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html">The Hurd
+Hacking Guide</A> to the documentation section.  Thanks to Wolfgang
+J&auml;hrling for providing this introduction into GNU/Hurd and Mach
+programming!
+<P>
+
+<DT>08 March 2002</DT>
+<DD>We are pleased to announce version 1.3 of the GNU distribution of the
+Mach 3.0 interface generator `MiG'.  It may be found in the file
+<SAMP><A HREF="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.3.tar.gz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.3.tar.gz</A></SAMP> (about 145 KB compressed).
+<P>
+Diffs from version 1.2 are in <SAMP><A HREF="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.2-1.3.diff.gz">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mig/mig-1.2-1.3.diff.gz</A></SAMP>
+(about 6 KB compressed, 15 KB uncompressed).  Relative to version 1.2,
+version 1.3 contains only some minor fixes.
+<P>
+You need this tool to compile the GNU Mach and Hurd distributions, and
+to compile GNU libc for the Hurd.
+<P>
+Bug reports relating to this distribution should be sent to
+<A HREF="mailto:bug-hurd@gnu.org">bug-hurd@gnu.org</A>.  Requests for assistance should be made on
+<A HREF="mailto:help-hurd@gnu.org">help-hurd@gnu.org</A>.
+<P>
+The md5sum checksum for this distibution is:
+<P>
+45c2b7456727d81dbd75f7152f8136fd  mig-1.3.tar.gz
+<P>
+
+<DT>03 March 2002</DT>
+<DD>There is a new mailing list called <A
+HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/hurd-devel-readers">
+Hurd-devel-readers</A>. It is the read-only version of Hurd-devel.
+<P>
+Hurd-devel is a mailing list for detailed discussions
+of design and implementation issues in the GNU Hurd; it is an internal
+low-volume list restricted to the core developers of the Hurd.  While
+the <A HREF="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/hurd-devel/">web-based
+archive of Hurd-devel</A> has always been public, the new mailing list
+Hurd-devel-readers provides a convenient way to follow
+the discussion of the Hurd experts.
+<P>
+If you are a recipient of Hurd-devel-readers and want
+to follow up on the discussion, please reply to the
+Bug-hurd mailing list.
+<P>
 <DT>18 February 2002</DT>
 <DD>Pro-Linux has published a <A
 HREF="http://www.pl-berichte.de/berichte/hurd/hurd-status/">GNU/Hurd