Announcement (computing)

In 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 software release version.  Newsgroup announcement recipients often have a name like "comp.somegroup.announce".  Mailing list announcement recipients often have a name like "toolname-announce". Most software projects that make announcements are open source.
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