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[[!meta title="When will the Hurd be released?"]]

GNU Hurd 0.9 has been [[released on 2016-12-18|news/2016-12-18-releases]],
along with GNU Mach 1.8, and GNU MIG 1.8.  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 0.9 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.  :-)