WINDOWS XP USERS:

Windows XP requires a more recent version of Cygwin than is bundled
into the V5.53 Ferret for win32. For now, XP users must continue to
use v5.51 of Ferret. As soon as a updated cygwin environment is
installed, and Ferret and it's dependent libraries are ported, we will
officially release a newer version of Ferret for windows XP. We
apologize for any inconvenience.

Please pick up the ferret_v551.zip from from the previous_versions directory.