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             <p>Available for Android, Linux, and Windows. Free and open source.</p>
 
             <div class="note" style="margin-top: 1rem; border-left: 3px solid var(--accent); padding-left: 0.9rem;">
-                <strong>Upgrading from v0.5?</strong> v0.6 is a hard network fork &mdash; older versions can no longer reach the network. Bring your account over in three steps:
+                <strong>Upgrading from v0.5.1 or newer?</strong> v0.6 is a hard network fork &mdash; older versions can no longer reach the network. Bring your account over in three steps:
                 <ol style="margin: 0.5rem 0 0.25rem 1.25rem; padding: 0;">
                     <li>On your current v0.5 install, go to <strong>Settings &rarr; Export</strong>, tick <em>&ldquo;Posts + media + identity key&rdquo;</em>, and save the .zip somewhere safe.</li>
                     <li>Download v0.6 below (APK, AppImage, or Windows installer).</li>
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                 <p style="margin: 0.5rem 0 0 0; font-size: 0.8rem; color: var(--text-muted);">Your posts, media, follows, and identity key all come across. Encrypted posts stay decryptable under the same key.</p>
             </div>
 
+            <div class="note" style="margin-top: 0.75rem; border-left: 3px solid var(--text-muted); padding-left: 0.9rem;">
+                <strong>Upgrading from v0.5.0 or older?</strong> The v0.5 export format matured in v0.5.1, so a direct export from 0.5.0 won't import cleanly into v0.6. Do a two-hop upgrade:
+                <ol style="margin: 0.5rem 0 0.25rem 1.25rem; padding: 0;">
+                    <li>Install <a href="itsgoin_0.5.3_amd64.AppImage">v0.5.3 Linux AppImage</a> / <a href="itsgoin-0.5.3.apk">Android APK</a> / <a href="itsgoin-0.5.3-windows-x64-setup.exe">Windows installer</a> and open it. It reads your existing data in place.</li>
+                    <li>In v0.5.3, go to <strong>Settings &rarr; Export</strong> and save the bundle.</li>
+                    <li>Install v0.6.0 below and import that bundle on first launch.</li>
+                </ol>
+                <p style="margin: 0.5rem 0 0 0; font-size: 0.8rem; color: var(--text-muted);">v0.5.3 is kept online only as an upgrade bridge &mdash; it no longer connects to the live network.</p>
+            </div>
+
             <h2 style="margin-top: 2rem;">v0.6.0 &mdash; April 21, 2026</h2>
             <p style="color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.85rem;">The privacy architecture overhaul. Network identity is decoupled from posting identity &mdash; peers cannot correlate network traffic to a posting identity, and users can hold multiple simultaneous posting identities (personas) on one device.</p>