diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b364d2f8..7e5f3558 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
      installable are works with the normal guile system; code has been
      substantially improved. still 'experimental'
 
-** Release 0.9.7 <>
+** Release 0.9.7 <2011-09-03 Sat>
 
    - don't enforce UTF-8 output, use locale (fixes issue #11)
    - add mail threading to mu-find (using -t/--threads) (sorta fixes issue #13)
diff --git a/www/index.org b/www/index.org
index a974f9c3..9d67f00d 100644
--- a/www/index.org
+++ b/www/index.org
@@ -8,20 +8,24 @@
   of e-mail message in our work-flows, it's essential to quickly deal with all
   that mail - in particular, to instantly find that one important e-mail you
   need right now.
-  
+
   *mu* is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the
   [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]]-format. *mu*'s main purpose is to help you to quickly find the
   messages you need; in addition, it allows you to view messages, extract
   attachments, create new maildirs, ... See the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]] for some examples.
-  
+
   Searching works by first indexing your messages into a [[http://xapian.org/][Xapian]]-database, which
   can then be queried using a custom query language.
-  
-** News
-   :PROPERTIES:
-   :ID:       27775509-4d58-4d60-b0e9-651dce225f0c
-   :END:
 
+** News
+
+   - 2011-12-30  [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/list][mu-0.9.8-alpha]] is available; it comes with a an emacs-based
+     email client, updated guile bindings, search for attachment mime type and
+     search inside any text part of a message, more tests, improvements in many
+     parts of the code.
+   - 2011-09-03: mu 0.9.7 is now available; compared to the -pre version there
+     are a few small changes; the most important one is a fix specifically for
+     running mu on MacOS.
    - 2011-07-31: mu *0.9.7-pre* is now available with a number of interesting
      new features and fixes, many based on user suggestions. =mu= now supports
      /mail threading/ based on the [[http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html][JWZ-algorithm]]; output is now automatically
@@ -32,7 +36,7 @@
      do all kinds of statistics - see the [[https://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/toys/muile/README][README]] for more information.
 
      Note, the repository name has changed, it's now at: https://gitorious.org/mu/mu.
-    
+
 
    - 2011-06-02: after quite a bit of testing, *0.9.6* has been promoted to be
      the next release -- forget about the 'bèta'. Development continues for
@@ -43,7 +47,7 @@
      - wild-card searching for most fields: mu find 'car*'
      - search for message with certain attachments with 'attach:/a:': mu find
        'attach:resume*'
-     - color for =mu find=, =mu cfind=, =mu extract= and =mu view= 
+     - color for =mu find=, =mu cfind=, =mu extract= and =mu view=
      Everything is documented in the man-pages, and there are examples in the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu
      cheatsheet]].
 
@@ -57,13 +61,13 @@
 
    - 2011-02-13: *mu 0.9.3*; fixes a bunch of minor issues in 0.9.2; updated the
      web page with pages for [[file:mug.org][mug]] (the experimental UI) and the [[file:cheatsheet.org][mu cheatsheet]].
-     
+
    - 2011-02-02: *mu 0.9.2* released, which adds support for matching on message
      size, and various new output format. See [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/NEWS][NEWS]] for all the user-visible
      changes, also from older releases.
 
    - [[file:old-news.org][Old news]]
-     
+
 ** Features
 
    - fast indexing for Maildir, Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
@@ -78,30 +82,30 @@
    - output in plain text, xml, s-expressions (experimental)
    - extract message parts, attachments, open them using their default
      application
-     
+
    In addition, there is a toy UI for *mu* called [[file:mug.org][mug]]; the plan is to slowly
    evolve this into a full-featured UI.
-   
+
 ** Development & download
    :PROPERTIES:
    :ID:       19324381-696d-4c7e-aff2-528174780fd5
-   :END: 
+   :END:
 
    Some Linux-distributions already provide pre-built mu packages; if there's no
    packagage for your distribution, or if you want the latest release, you can
    [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/list][download mu source packages]] from Google Code. In case you find a bug, or have
    a feature requests, please use the [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list][issue tracker]].
-  
+
    If you'd like to work with the mu source code, you can find it [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu][in Gitorious]];
    also, see the notes on [[http://gitorious.org/mu/mu/blobs/master/HACKING][HACKING]] the mu source code.
- 
+
    There's also a [[http://groups.google.com/group/mu-discuss][mailing list]].
-   
+
 ** License & Copyright
 
    *mu* was designed and implemented by Dirk-Jan C. Binnema, and is Free
    Software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3
-   
+
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