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<section id="sect-source-gettingrelease">
    <title>Getting the release</title>
    <para>
        You can download the latest &PRODUCT; release from the 
        <ulink url="http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/downloads.html">
        Apache CloudStack project download page</ulink>. 
    </para>
    <para>Prior releases are available via archive.apache.org as well. See the downloads page for more information on archived releases.</para>
    <para>You'll notice several links under the 'Latest release' section. A link to a file ending in <filename>tar.bz2</filename>, as well as a PGP/GPG signature, MD5, and SHA512 file.</para>
    <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>The <filename>tar.bz2</filename> file contains the Bzip2-compressed tarball with the source code.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>The <filename>.asc</filename> file is a detached cryptographic signature that can be used to help verify the authenticity of the release.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>The <filename>.md5</filename> file is an MD5 hash of the release to aid in verify the validity of the release download.</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>The <filename>.sha</filename> file is a SHA512 hash of the release to aid in verify the validity of the release download.</para></listitem>
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