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 Nutch Change Log
 
-Nutch 2.4 Release 09032018 (ddmmyyyy)
+Nutch 2.4 Release 23092019 (ddmmyyyy)
 Release Report - https://s.apache.org/bFfL
 
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 # Apache Nutch README
 
 
-# NOTE: Apache Nutch 2.x development line has been retired. As of March 9th, 2019 Nutch 2.4 is the last release of the Nutch 2.x line. Nutch users should skip to using the Nutch 1.X 'master' codebase as this is under active development, use and maintenance by the Nutch PMC, Committership, and Community. Thank you to everyone that contributed to Nutch 2.x over the years.
+# NOTE: Apache Nutch 2.x development line has been retired. As of September 23rd, 2019 Nutch 2.4 is the last release of the Nutch 2.x line. Nutch users should skip to using the Nutch 1.X 'master' codebase as this is under active development, use and maintenance by the Nutch PMC, Committership, and Community. Thank you to everyone that contributed to Nutch 2.x over the years.
 
 
 <img src="http://nutch.apache.org/assets/img/nutch_logo_tm.png" align="right" width="300" />