Announcement (computing)

An announcement (ANN) is a Usenet, mailing list or e-mail message sent to notify subscribers that a software project has made a new release version. Newsgroup announcement recipients often have a name like "comp.somegroup.announce". Mailing list announcement recipients often have a name like "toolname-announce". In an announcement, the subject line commonly contains the abbreviated prefix ANN: or [ANN].

The contents of an announcement usually contain a title line which contains the tool name, version, release name, and date. Additional contents often fall into the following message sections:

Some additional, optional fields might include "Highlights", "Author(s)", "License", "Requirements", and "Release History".

Announcement messages are usually sent in plain text form.

Example

Example announcement message subject line:

ANN: fooutils 0.9.42 beta released

Example announcement message contents:

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  Fooutils 0.9.42 Beta Released -- 2006 Feb 16
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 ANNOUNCING Fooutils v0.2.12beta, the first beta release.

 About Fooutils
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 Fooutils are a set of utilities that...

 Changes
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 Improved the searching facility by including...
 Fixed bugs: #123, #456, ...

 Resources
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 Homepage:
   http://fooutils.org

 Documentation:
   http://fooutils.org/docs

 Download:
   http://fooutils.org/download

 Bug Tracker:
   http://fooutils.org/newticket

 Mailing Lists:
   http://lists.fooutils.org/

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