Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,

It is with great pleasure that the Devuan Developers hereby announce the
release of Devuan Excalibur 6.0 as the project's newest stable release.
This is the result of lots of painstaking work by the team and extensive
testing by the wider Devuan community.


INSTALLATION and DOCUMENTATION

Whether you are upgrading an existing Devuan install, migrating from
Debian or installing from scratch, instructions and guidance can be
found online:

- https://devuan.org/os/install
- https://devuan.org/get-devuan

Packages, netboot images and installation media are available through a
resilient network of:

- http package mirrors (http://deb.devuan.org or choose manually from
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt)
- http, https, ftp, and rsync ISO mirrors
- torrent and magnet

Please take time to read the Release Notes. They include important
configuration information and tips to help your install or upgrade go as
smoothly as possible.

- https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalibur/Release_notes.txt

For the impatient, you can go straight to the package and sources.list
information or the installation media downloads:

- https://devuan.org/os/packages
- https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalibur/


RESOURCES and SUPPORT

- Mailing list: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
- IRC: #devuan #devuan-dev #devuan-arm (Libera)
- Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org
- Press contact: freedom at devuan dot org
- Source code: https://git.devuan.org
- Bug tracker: https://bugs.devuan.org
- Package information: https://pkginfo.devuan.org
- Popularity contest: https://popcon.devuan.org


AFTER EXCALIBUR

The next Devuan release, 7.0, is codenamed Freia. Repositories are
already available for the adventurous to test.


APPRECIATION

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to Devuan.
Without your help and feedback, Devuan could not be the reliable and
versatile distribution that it is.

To support the Devuan project you can examine our financial reports and
donate at:
https://devuan.org/os/donate
or take up one of the tasks listed at 'How you can help Devuan':
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1380#p1380

The Devuan Team