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 The reference implementation can execute, analyze, and compile SixtyPical
 programs to 6502 machine code.
 
-It is a **work in progress**, currently at the **proof-of-concept** stage.
-
-The current development version of SixtyPical is 0.8.
+SixtyPical is a work in progress.  The current released version of SixtyPical
+is 0.9-PRE (not released yet.)
 
 Documentation
 -------------
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 SixtyPical
 ==========
 
-This document describes the SixtyPical programming language version 0.8,
+This document describes the SixtyPical programming language version 0.9-PRE,
 both its execution aspect and its static analysis aspect (even though
 these are, technically speaking, separate concepts.)