HTRACE-347. We should update the website for the 4.1 release, and fix index.html
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+<!---
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License. See accompanying LICENSE file.
+-->
+
+# About
+Apache HTrace is an <a href="http://htrace.incubator.apache.org">Apache
+Incubator</a> project providing an open source framework for distributed
+tracing. It can be used with both standalone applications and libraries.
+
+HTrace was designed for use in big distributed systems such as the Apache
+Hadoop Distributed Filesystem and the Apache HBase storage engine. However,
+there is nothing Hadoop-specific about HTrace. It has no dependencies on
+Hadoop, and is a useful building block for many distributed systems. See the
+[developer guide](developer_guide.html) for information on adding HTrace support.
+
+# Releases
+* htrace-4.1.0-incubating published March 4th, 2016. [Download it!](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/htrace/)
+* htrace-4.0.1-incubating published September 26th, 2015. [Download it!](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/htrace/)
+* htrace-4.0.0-incubating published September 15th, 2015. [Download it!](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/htrace/)
+* htrace-3.2.0-incubating published June 2nd, 2015.
+* We made our first release from Apache Incubator, htrace-3.1.0-incubating, January 20th, 2015.
+
+# JavaDoc
+The API documentation for htrace-core is online.
+
+* [htrace-4.1.0-incubating JavaDoc](http://htrace.incubator.apache.org/javadoc/4.1/htrace-core/index.html)
