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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2008 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
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+
+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.