Index: /trunk/website/download.bml
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--- /trunk/website/download.bml (revision 808)
+++ /trunk/website/download.bml (revision 815)
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
 </ul>
 
-<p>Beta (1.3.x) series:</p>
+<p>Release candidate for next stable (1.4.x) series:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/memcached/downloads/list?q=label:Beta">latest beta release</a> (please help test!)
+<li><a
+href="http://code.google.com/p/memcached/downloads/list?q=label:RC">latest release</a> (<a href="dist/memcached-1.4.0-rc1.tar.gz">backup link</a>) (please help test!)
 </ul>
 
@@ -25,8 +26,9 @@
 
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/">Subversion repository</a> [<a href="http://code.sixapart.com/trac/memcached/log">svn log</a>]
+<li><a href="http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/">Subversion repository (not used for the server software anymore)</a> [<a href="http://code.sixapart.com/trac/memcached/log">svn log</a>]
 </ul>
 
 <p>Git</p>
+<ul><a href="http://github.com/memcached/memcached/tree/master">Git development tree</a></ul>
 
 <ul><a href="http://consoleninja.net/code/memcached/memcached.git">Git stable
Index: /trunk/website/news.bml
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--- /trunk/website/news.bml (revision 808)
+++ /trunk/website/news.bml (revision 815)
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@
 <?h1 News h1?> 
 <p></p>
+
+<p><b>2009-05-28:</b> Version 1.4.0-rc1 <a href="download.bml">released</a>.
+Release candidate for the next major stable series (1.4.0). It is recommended
+to evaluate this release, as the 1.2.x series is now in maintenance mode.
 
 <p><b>2009-04-10:</b> Version 1.2.8 <a href="download.bml">released</a>.