
Download
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All releases are signed with a :doc:`PGP key <pgpkey>`.

.. note::

   All users, especially for new applications, are encouraged to use
   the latest 1.11 release instead of 1.10, though some API changes
   are still likely to occur before a new stable release based on 1.11.

Current Development Series (1.11)
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The latest development release is :doc:`relnotes/1_11_17`:
:tgz:`1.11.17` (:tgz_sig:`sig <1.11.17>`)

.. note::

   Botan 1.11 requires a working C++11 compiler; GCC 4.8 and later,
   Clang 3.4 and later, and MSVC 2013 are regularly tested.

Current Stable Series (1.10)
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The latest stable branch release is :doc:`relnotes/1_10_9`:
:tgz:`1.10.9` (:tgz_sig:`sig <1.10.9>`)

From Your Favorite Distribution
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Botan is already included in many package distributions though often
the included version lags behind the latest release. Distributions
providing botan include
`Fedora <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/botan>`_,
`EPEL <http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS/repoview/botan.html>`_ (for RHEL/CentOS),
`Debian <http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libbotan>`_,
`Ubuntu <http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=botan>`_,
`Gentoo <http://packages.gentoo.org/package/botan>`_,
`Arch <http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/botan/>`_,
`Slackbuild <http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=Botan>`_,
`FreeBSD <http://www.freshports.org/security/botan110>`_,
`NetBSD <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/security/botan/README.html>`_,
`Cygwin <http://cygwin.com/packages/x86/botan/>`_,
`MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=botan>`_,
`OpenPKG <http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=botan>`_, and
`T2 SDE <http://www.t2-project.org/packages/botan.html>`_
