# FreedomBox 0.1 Ian Sullivan posted a release announcement today regarding the first [FreedomBox](http://freedomboxfoundation.org) public release, which we're calling [0.1](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freedombox-foundation-from-0-to-60-in-30/posts/296870). This release is, frankly, long overdue. Getting here has been harder and taken much longer than any of us intended. Fortunately, now that we've reached this milestone, I believe that making regular progress towards the vision we have for a "1.0" release will get easier. FreedomBox is far from the only thing that I'll be working on after my upcoming [early retirement](http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/Early_Retirement.html) from [HP](http://hp.com), but hopefully I will succeed in putting far more time towards the project soon than I have been able to in the past. [[!tag tags/debian]] [[!tag tags/freedombox]]