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             academic research, and open-source development.
           </p>
           <h2>News</h2>
-
-          <p><b>September 10th 2013:</b>
-          MADlib v1.2 is out! New features include ARIMA time series modeling and
-          significant improvements to the documentation.
+          <p><b>October 9th 2013:</b>
+          MADlib v1.3 is out! New features include Stratification for Cox
+          Proportional Hazards along with testing the PH assumption. It also
+          includes better NULL value handling and multiple bug fixes.
           <a href="#binaries">Binary packages</a> are available for
           CentOS/RedHat and for Mac OS X. On other platforms, MADlib can be <a
           href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/wiki/Building-MADlib-from-Source">
@@ -74,12 +74,16 @@
           detailed instructions</a> for deploying MADlib on PostgreSQL
           and Greenplum installations. For a list of new features, bug fixes,
           and known issues, please refer to the
-          <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/blob/v1.2/ReleaseNotes.txt">Release Notes</a>.
+          <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/blob/v1.3/ReleaseNotes.txt">Release Notes</a>.
 
             As always, the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/madlib-user-forum">MADlib forum</a>
             is open for questions and discussions. Try it out and let us know about your feedback!
           </p>
 
+          <p><b>September 10th 2013:</b>
+            MADlib v1.2 is out!
+          </p>
+
           <p><b>August 9th 2013:</b>
           MADlib v1.1 is out!
           </p>
@@ -96,7 +100,7 @@
           MADlib v0.5 is out! </p>
 
           <p><b>August 29th 2012:</b>
-          <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chrisre/">Chris R&eacute;</a>, <a href="http://www.florian-schoppmann.net">Florian Schoppmann</a>, and Caleb Welton present the paper <em><a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1700_joehellerstein_vldb2012.pdf">The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL</a></em> at the <a href="http://www.vldb2012.org">38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases</a> (VLDB 2012) in Istanbul, Turkey. <a href="http://sacan.biomed.drexel.edu/vldb2012/program/?volno=vol5no12&pid=935&downloadslides=1">Slides from the talk are available here.</a>
+          <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chrisre/">Chris R&eacute;</a>, <a href="http://www.florian-schoppmann.net">Florian Schoppmann</a>, and Caleb Welton present the paper <em><a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1700_joehellerstein_vldb2012.pdf">The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL</a></em> at the <a href="http://www.vldb2012.org">38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases</a> (VLDB 2012) in Istanbul, Turkey. (<a href="http://sacan.biomed.drexel.edu/vldb2012/program/?volno=vol5no12&pid=935&downloadslides=1">Slides from the talk</a>)
           </p>
           <p><b>July 11th 2012:</b>
           <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~xfeng/">Xixuan (Aaron) Feng</a> presents <a href="http://madlib.net/pubs/madlib-poster-mmds-2012.pdf">a poster about MADlib</a> at the <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmds/">Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets</a> (MMDS 2012) at Stanford.
@@ -130,12 +134,12 @@
           <p><a name="binaries">Binary packages of the latest MADlib release:</a>
 
             <br />&bull; Mac OS X 10.6 and higher:
-            <a href="http://www.madlib.net/files/madlib-1.2-Darwin.dmg"
+            <a href="http://www.madlib.net/files/madlib-1.3-Darwin.dmg"
             onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'OSX');return false;">
             Greenplum 4.1, 4.2 / PostgreSQL 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 (64-bit)</a>
 
             <br />&bull; CentOS / Red Hat 5 and higher (64-bit):
-            <a href="http://www.madlib.net/files/madlib-1.2-Linux.rpm"
+            <a href="http://www.madlib.net/files/madlib-1.3-Linux.rpm"
             onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Linux');return false;">
             Greenplum 4.1, 4.2 / PostgreSQL 9.0, 9.1, 9.2</a>
           </p>
@@ -146,11 +150,11 @@
             onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Source-master');return false;">.zip</a>
             <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/tarball/master"
             onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Source-master');return false;">.tar.gz</a>
-            <br />&bull; Latest stable release (v1.2):
-            <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/zipball/v1.2.0"
-            onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Source-v1.1-zip');return false;">.zip</a>
-            <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/tarball/v1.2.0"
-            onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Source-v1.1-tar.gz');return false;">.tar.gz</a>
+            <br />&bull; Latest stable release (v1.3):
+            <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/zipball/v1.3.0"
+            onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Source-v1.3-zip');return false;">.zip</a>
+            <a href="https://github.com/madlib/madlib/tarball/v1.3.0"
+            onClick="recordOutboundLink(this, 'Download', 'Source-v1.3-tar.gz');return false;">.tar.gz</a>
             </p>
           <h2>Documentation</h2>
           <p>Installation guides can be found in the