avoid having to update this statement all the time
diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst
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@@ -309,13 +309,12 @@
guaranteed that interfaces will remain the same throughout a series of bugfix
releases.
-.. XXX this gets out of date pretty often
-
-The `2.6.4 release <http://python.org/download/>`_ is recommended
-production-ready version at this point in time. Python 3.1 is also considered
-production-ready, but may be less useful, since currently there is more third
-party software available for Python 2 than for Python 3. Python 2 code will
-generally not run unchanged in Python 3.
+The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page
+<http://python.org/download/>`_. They are recommended production-ready version
+at this point in time. At the moment, there are two branches of stable
+releases: 2.x and 3.x. Python 3.x may be less useful than 2.x, since currently
+there is more third party software available for Python 2 than for Python 3.
+Python 2 code will generally not run unchanged in Python 3.
How many people are using Python?