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@ -275,7 +275,24 @@ For the full story, consult Go's extensive
<h2 id="releases">Keeping up with releases</h2>
<p>New releases are announced on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts">Go Nuts</a> mailing list.
<p>
The Go project maintains two stable tags in its Mercurial repository:
<code>release</code> and <code>weekly</code>.
The <code>weekly</code> tag is updated about once a week, and should be used by
those who want to track the project's development.
The <code>release</code> tag is given, less often, to those weekly releases
that have proven themselves to be robust.
</p>
<p>
Most Go users will want to keep their Go installation at the latest
<code>release</code> tag.
New releases are announced on the
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/golang-announce">golang-announce</a>
mailing list.
</p>
<p>
To update an existing tree to the latest release, you can run:
</p>
@ -286,6 +303,10 @@ $ hg update release
$ ./all.bash
</pre>
<p>
To use the <code>weekly</code> tag run <code>hg update weekly</code> instead.
</p>
<h2 id="community">Community resources</h2>
<p>