A new version of a distribution was released, but it wasn announced on DistroWatch. Why?
This situation can happen for one of the following reasons: • The release was not announced on the distribution’s own web site. Before we publish a release announcement on DistroWatch, we require that the distribution publish an announcement on their web site. This can take the form of a press release, release announcement or, at the very least, a changelog. It must be published either on the main web site or in a publicly available community section, such as a mailing list, user forum or Wiki. • The release announcement was too brief. Some distribution maintainers do announce their releases, but with only one sentence saying that “version X.X has been released”. This poses a problem for us in that we find it difficult to turn a simple sentence into a full paragraph for publishing on DistroWatch. If the distribution maintainers are unable to produce a decent release announcement, giving at least a basic list of new features and updates, then don’t expect us to do their job. • We didn’t
