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@@ -71,28 +71,37 @@ Reasons you might want to avoid bup
    for you, but we don't know why.  It is also missing some
    probably-critical features.
    
- - It requires python >= 2.5, a C compiler, and an installed git
+ - It requires python >= 2.6, a C compiler, and an installed git
    version >= 1.5.3.1.  It also requires par2 if you want fsck to be
    able to generate the information needed to recover from some types
    of corruption.
  
- - It currently only works on Linux, MacOS X >= 10.4,
-   NetBSD, Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin).  Patches to support
-   other platforms are welcome.
+ - It currently only works on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OS X >= 10.4,
+   Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin).  Patches to support other
+   platforms are welcome.
 
  - Any items in "Things that are stupid" below.
 
-   
+
+Notable changes introduced by a release
+=======================================
+
+ - <a href="note/0.29.1-from-0.29.md">Changes in 0.29.1 as compared to 0.29</a>
+ - <a href="note/0.29-from-0.28.1.md">Changes in 0.29 as compared to 0.28.1</a>
+ - <a href="note/0.28.1-from-0.28.md">Changes in 0.28.1 as compared to 0.28</a>
+ - <a href="note/0.28-from-0.27.1.md">Changes in 0.28 as compared to 0.27.1</a>
+ - <a href="note/0.27.1-from-0.27.md">Changes in 0.27.1 as compared to 0.27</a>
+
+
 Getting started
 ===============
 
-
 From source
 -----------
 
  - Check out the bup source code using git:
  
-        git clone git://github.com/bup/bup
+        git clone https://github.com/bup/bup
 
  - Install the required python libraries (including the development
    libraries).
@@ -102,8 +111,8 @@ From source
 
             apt-get build-dep bup
 
-   Otherwise try this (substitute python2.5-dev or python2.6-dev if
-   you have an older system):
+   Otherwise try this (substitute python2.6-dev if you have an older
+   system):
 
             apt-get install python2.7-dev python-fuse
             apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
@@ -143,13 +152,13 @@ From source
     may fail.  Running something like this before "make test" should
     sidestep the problem:
 
-        cd "$(/bin/pwd)"
+        cd "$(pwd -P)"
 
  - You can install bup via "make install", and override the default
    destination with DESTDIR and PREFIX.
 
    Files are normally installed to "$DESTDIR/$PREFIX" where DESTDIR is
-   empty by default, and PREFIX is set to /usr.  So if you wanted to
+   empty by default, and PREFIX is set to /usr/local.  So if you wanted to
    install bup to /opt/bup, you might do something like this:
 
         make install DESTDIR=/opt/bup PREFIX=''
@@ -488,7 +497,8 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help.
    workaround is to just start a new BUP_DIR occasionally,
    i.e. bup-2013, bup-2014...
 
- - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, MacOS, and Windows+Cygwin.
+ - bup has never been tested on anything but Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
+   OS X, and Windows+Cygwin.
  
     There's nothing that makes it *inherently* non-portable, though, so
     that's mostly a matter of someone putting in some effort.  (For a
@@ -511,10 +521,9 @@ mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help.
    
  - bup has no GUI.
  
-    Actually, that's not stupid, but you might consider it a limitation. 
-    There are a bunch of Linux GUI backup programs; someday I expect someone
-    will adapt one of them to use bup.
-    
+   Actually, that's not stupid, but you might consider it a
+   limitation.  See the ["Related Projects"](https://bup.github.io/)
+   list for some possible options.
     
 More Documentation
 ==================