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+Bitcoin version 0.6.0 is now available for download at:
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0/test/
+
+This release includes more than 20 language localizations.
+More translations are welcome; join the
+project at Transifex to help:
+https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/bitcoin/
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues
+
+Project source code is hosted at github; we are no longer
+distributing .tar.gz files here, you can get them
+directly from github:
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0  # .tar.gz
+https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/zipball/v0.6.0  # .zip
+
+For Ubuntu users, there is a ppa maintained by Matt Corallo which
+you can add to your system so that it will automatically keep
+bitcoin up-to-date.  Just type
+sudo apt-add-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
+in your terminal, then install the bitcoin-qt package.
+
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+
+Shutting down while synchronizing with the network
+(downloading the blockchain) can take more than a minute,
+because database writes are queued to speed up download
+time.
+
+
+NEW FEATURES SINCE BITCOIN VERSION 0.5
+
+Initial network synchronization should be much faster
+(one or two hours on a typical machine instead of ten or more
+hours).
+
+Backup Wallet menu option.
+
+Bitcoin-Qt can display and save QR codes for sending
+and receiving addresses.
+
+New context menu on addresses to copy/edit/delete them.
+
+New Sign Message dialog that allows you to prove that you
+own a bitcoin address by creating a digital
+signature.
+
+New wallets created with this version will
+use 33-byte 'compressed' public keys instead of
+65-byte public keys, resulting in smaller
+transactions and less traffic on the bitcoin
+network. The shorter keys are already supported
+by the network but wallet.dat files containing
+short keys are not compatible with earlier
+versions of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind.
+
+New command-line argument -blocknotify=<command>
+that will spawn a shell process to run <command> 
+when a new block is accepted.
+
+New command-line argument -splash=0 to disable
+Bitcoin-Qt's initial splash screen
+
+validateaddress JSON-RPC api command output includes
+two new fields for addresses in the wallet:
+pubkey : hexadecimal public key
+iscompressed : true if pubkey is a short 33-byte key
+
+New JSON-RPC api commands for dumping/importing
+private keys from the wallet (dumprivkey, importprivkey).
+
+New JSON-RPC api command for getting information about
+blocks (getblock, getblockhash).
+
+New JSON-RPC api command (getmininginfo) for getting
+extra information related to mining. The getinfo
+JSON-RPC command no longer includes mining-related
+information (generate/genproclimit/hashespersec).
+
+
+
+NOTABLE CHANGES
+
+BIP30 implemented (security fix for an attack involving
+duplicate "coinbase transactions").
+
+The -nolisten, -noupnp and -nodnsseed command-line
+options were renamed to -listen, -upnp and -dnsseed,
+with a default value of 1. The old names are still
+supported for compatibility (so specifying -nolisten
+is automatically interpreted as -listen=0; every
+boolean argument can now be specified as either
+-foo or -nofoo).
+
+The -noirc command-line options was renamed to
+-irc, with a default value of 0. Run -irc=1 to
+get the old behavior.
+
+Three fill-up-available-memory denial-of-service
+attacks were fixed.
+
+
+NOT YET IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
+
+Support for clicking on bitcoin: URIs and
+opening/launching Bitcoin-Qt is available only on Linux,
+and only if you configure your desktop to launch
+Bitcoin-Qt. All platforms support dragging and dropping
+bitcoin: URIs onto the Bitcoin-Qt window to start
+payment.
+
+
+PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR MULTISIGNATURE TRANSACTIONS
+
+This release has preliminary support for multisignature
+transactions-- transactions that require authorization
+from more than one person or device before they
+will be accepted by the bitcoin network.
+
+Prior to this release, multisignature transactions
+were considered 'non-standard' and were ignored;
+with this release multisignature transactions are
+considered standard and will start to be relayed
+and accepted into blocks.
+
+It is expected that future releases of Bitcoin-Qt
+will support the creation of multisignature transactions,
+once enough of the network has upgraded so relaying
+and validating them is robust.
+
+For this release, creation and testing of multisignature
+transactions is limited to the bitcoin test network using
+the "addmultisigaddress" JSON-RPC api call.
+
+Short multisignature address support is included in this
+release, as specified in BIP 13 and BIP 16.