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 Latest News
 -----------
 
-#### Latest release 0.6.4 (2017-07-11)
+#### Latest release 0.6.5 (2017-08-25)
 
 For updates on the latest FRETBursts release see
 [release notes](http://fretbursts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releasenotes.html).
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 FRETBursts Release Notes
 ========================
 
-Version 0.6.5 (unreleased)
---------------------------
+Version 0.6.5 (Aug. 2017)
+-------------------------
+
+This is a minor release with an important bug fix for histograms plots
+and other tweaks mostly for PAX. New "short notebooks" for common tasks 
+have also been added.
 
 Bug fixes: