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{{ site.data.project.name }} is released as a source artifact, and also through Maven.
Release notes for the current and previous releases can be found in the [release history]({{ site.baseurl }}/history)
All previous releases of {{ site.data.project.name }} can be found in the archives.
Instructions for checking hashes and signatures is indicated on the Verifying Apache Software Foundation Releases page.
Download the desired archive, and verify using the corresponding pgp signature (using the public keys available in [KEYS](https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/{{ site.data.project.unix_name }}/KEYS)). If you cannot do that, the sha512 hash file may be used to check that the download has completed OK.
For fast downloads, current source distributions are hosted on mirror servers; older source distributions are in the [archive](http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/{{ site.data.project.unix_name }}/). If a download from a mirror fails, retry, and the second download will likely succeed.
For security, hash and signature files are always hosted at [Apache](https://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/{{ site.data.project.unix_name }}/).