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+From audacity-devel:
+We're going to freeze the code in HEAD on October 18 at 12noon UTC, and 
+plan to release 1.3.6 on October 23.
+
+-----
 Concurrent work in multiple projects causes corruption and
 stalled actions? Reproducible down to 1.3.2-beta, confirmed by
 somebody on audacity devel list. Could be because something's not